It is an established fact that college students love to talk their way to intellectual discovery, though the kids in this crowd were more smartly dressed than your average twenty-something.

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Of course, the crowd must be fed: in an average year, nearly half a million roast chickens, a quarter million sausages, 45, 000 pig's knuckles, and over one hundred whole oxen, spit roasted on giant rotisseries, are consumed.

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In 1995-96, their most recent season in the top division, the premiership, City's average crowd was 27, 941.

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