Worth noting that nearly every club that shared with soccer had issues.
I can vividly remember Reading fans in their TO selling me away tickets to Irish and saying how much the ticket office wanted us to beat Irish. I can also remember attending a then record crowd, and realising the stadium still felt and looked half empty.
I do wonder what would have happened if Booker development had succeeded, but suspect it would have been the same old problem of antipathy between union and soccer fans.