The largest crowd to ever watch a football match in Sheffield was 72,481 for an FA Cup tie between Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City in 1934. Many in the large crowd were fortunate as they were crushed on the Spion Kop. Casualties were treated on the players entrance to the pitch. Manchester City's young 'keeper Frank Swift later recalled that 'after forcing my way through the other player, I had to let pass a stretcher bearing a man crushed to death against the Spion Kop railings.' This being the 1930s the game continued.
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