Name 5 bigger clubs than us

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

In the Midlands: Us, Wolves, Albion, Forest, Derby, Leicester, the Rags, Coventry, Notts County and Walsall.

What about Stoke City?

Who?

Stoke City FC.

A fellow Midlands club.

If you must..

In the Midlands: Us, Wolves, Albion, Forest, Derby, Leicester, the Rags, Stoke City, Coventry, Notts County Port Vale and Walsall.

 

Tbf, I think all the other major Midlands clubs seem to be similarly sized - medium-sized clubs.

In the Midlands:

Big clubs - Villa

Medium-sized clubs - Wolves, Forest, Albion, Blues, Derby, Leicester, Stoke, Coventry

Small clubs - Notts County, Walsall, Port Vale, Shrewsbury, Northampton, Hereford, Chesterfield, Burton Albion,

[lovejoy]

And sh!t clubs: Cheltenham Town

[lovejoy]

I'd say we're behind Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal (in that order) and on a par with Spurs, [Villa], Everton (in that order). Then comes Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds.

[Legion]

*stops, thinks hard*

.............

*gives up*

No, sorry, I can't think of one.

This.

[andyaston]

Historically were 4th so, Liverpool, Man u and Arsenal in that order. Everton 5th.

[cdbearsfan]

Absolutely. Just count the trophies. We're fourth biggest.

[eastie]

liverpool, man utd and arsenal without doubt are bigger, id put villa pretty level in the next bracket with spurs and everton, follwed by man city newcastle sunderland and chelsea completing the top 10 biggest clubs in english history.

[Ad@m]

Tbf, I think all the other major Midlands clubs seem to be similarly sized - medium-sized clubs.

In the Midlands:

Big clubs - Villa

Medium-sized clubs - Wolves, Forest, Albion, Blues, Derby, Leicester, Stoke, Coventry

Small clubs - Notts County, Walsall, Port Vale, Shrewsbury, Northampton, Hereford, Chesterfield, Burton Albion,

Hmm, not sure you've quite got that right - to lump in Wolves (3 league titles, 4 FA Cups), Baggies (one league title, 5 FA Cups) and Forest (one league title, 2 FA Cups, 2 European Cups) with the rest in that category (2 league titles and 2 FA Cups between them!) is a bit silly.  On a historical basis, those three are all big clubs.

[Apyadg]

Some fantastic logic on that Baggies thread.

My favourite part is:

We are a much bigger club than we look on paper. If someone one won the euromillions and built us a 40000 seater stadium and charged a tenner a game we'd fill it most weeks.

[kippaxvilla2]

In terms of trophies we are the sixth biggest club:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_records_in_England#Most_successful_clubs_overall_.281871.E2.80.93present.29

Though I'd put us above Tottenham, as we've won the European Cup.

Community Shields?!

If they hadn't of ignored the Peace Cup victory we would have been joint 4th now.  Typical media against Villa.

[Rotterdam]

A daft thread. Next one would be 'how longs a piece of string'?

[PeterWithesShin]

Much as i'd like to claim no one is, the fact we've won so little for so long makes that an impossibility. So it's:

Man U
Liverpool
Arsenal
Then a coin flip between us and Everton. We probably edge it due to 82 and more FA Cups, but their titles and record for not getting relegated makes it close.

Maybe in another 100 years Chelsea and Man C can consider themselves our equals if they keep buying success, but until then, they and every other club not in the above list can suck our balls.

[cdbearsfan]

Everton have been relegated.

[PeterWithesShin]

Everton have been relegated.

Not for a long time, or as often as we have.

[TopDeck113]

Without Aston Villa as the vehicle for William McGregor's proposal, football would probably have died out as a spectator sport before the First World War.   Accordingly, there is no club bigger than us in whatever way you wish to measure it.