Cambridge fans could probably do with remembering they've just spent 9 years in the Conference, survived having Lee Power as chairman, and only really flirted with the Stockport, York City fate briefly, despite having Jimmy Quinn and Lingy as gaffers.
Had they won they'd have been 4 points adrift of us. They had 5,000 on Sat, there was about 600 more at the CG when we played them earlier in the season. That should tell us, there's not a whole world of difference between the clubs.
I know what you are getting at but TBF we had over 5,500 home fans at that game (they had 4,400 on Saturday) we were in a fairly poor run of home games too.
Even at their height under Beck they were only averaging between 6k and 7k fans at championship level when we were getting 10k regularly.
That still means we are getting 20% bigger crowds than them and always have been. And away we had 70% more travelling supporters.
Also their ground is pretty awful, proper old school bottom division ground with 2 slightly renovated stands and 2 ramshackle stands of dubious design.
Both teams have other league teams similar distances away and though Cambridge has a smaller population the surrounding catchment areas are similar sized, if anything Cambridge has more small/medium sized towns close without clubs (Huntingdon, Newmarket, Ely, Bury St Edmunds, Royston etc).
But its not about who was or is the biggest its about who won, and we won, home and away scoring 5 and conceding only 1 against them, they were on a great run at home with only 3 defeats prior to Saturday and their fans extremely confident pre game so much so that on their forum not 1 person did not predict a home win and all confident of them making the play offs still. Luton could only draw there 2 weeks ago where they limited Luton to 2 shots on target...we had 6.
In all a great win against a Cambridge side not low in confidence pre game, very good at home, a side who had only conceded 3 times in 1 game at home prior to Saturday once previously.
We weren't spectacular, we were workmanlike and wanted to win, got a little fortunate with the penalty but fully deserved a win and made Cambridge look very poor in the process, they offered nothing in attack and defensively they looked a shambles at times never able to cope with our crosses into the box especially from the left.
Try and appreciate the win rather than putting a negative spin on it, let us enjoy it.
