Time & Perspective Quote by David Gill

The line reads like a boardroom flex smuggled into the language of “facts,” and that’s exactly why it lands. “We have the fact” is a tell: Gill isn’t just stating attendance numbers, he’s trying to foreclose debate. By framing popularity as empirical data, he borrows the authority of measurement to make an argument about legitimacy. It’s not “people love us”; it’s “the numbers prove we deserve whatever comes next.”

The specificity of 67,500 does the heavy lifting. Precision signals credibility, even if the emotion underneath is basic: security, leverage, ambition. Then comes the pivot to “hopefully 75,000,” a small word that exposes the real engine here: growth. Hope is doing PR work, softening what is essentially a demand for expansion. It’s a classic institutional move: present current success as inevitable, then present future scale as merely the natural continuation of what “facts” already authorize.

“We have a lot of assets” seals the subtext. Fans become infrastructure. Community becomes an economic category. Even if Gill is labeled a scientist, the diction is managerial, almost financial, treating mass participation as collateral. The intent is persuasion aimed upward (investors, officials, decision-makers), not communion aimed outward (supporters). The context implied is a modern spectacle economy where crowd size is both cultural proof and bargaining chip: sellouts aren’t just an atmosphere, they’re an argument for more space, more money, more power.