AwayDays YouTuber Ellis Platten helps Witham Town break record – BBC

YouTube stars help non-league side break crowd record Katy Prickett and Connor Bennett Connor Bennett/BBC Alfie Indra (centre) with Ellis Platten (left) and Ben Gibbs, said they spent all morning thinking no one was going to turn up – and then they did Football fans from across the UK and abroad have helped a non-league side resoundingly break its previous attendance record. Witham Town’s home clash against Norfolk side Gorleston attracted 1,205 people. The Essex club’s previous record was 898 people during a 2014 play-off final. It followed an appeal by Ellis Platten, whose AwayDays YouTube channel has almost 600,000 subscribers. The big day out was arranged with his fellow content creator Alfie Indra, who said it was “a great turnout” and would “really, really help the club financially”. “It’s a club that doesn’t have a tonne of cash and we’ve managed to raise a good fair few thousand pounds for them, which for a club at this level, that’s huge I think,” said Indra, 29. Match kick-off was at 15:00 GMT on Saturday, ending in a 2-2 draw for the Isthmian League North club. Connor Bennett/BBC Colin (above) travelled from Toronto, Canada, to help boost the club’s attendance figures
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