I think it makes a massive difference in this era of global Premiership footballYou can sell living in London to a player, especially a foreign player. Birmingham is a much harder sell. If a player was offered Birmingham or London on the same wages, they'd go for London every time.
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Don't think so, one of our problems is that we'd have big, arguably bigger than Villa, clubs in close proximity to us as competition, in Spurs, Chelsea, and Arsenal. One of our advantages is that we've got a reputation (rightfully so) as the 'Biggest club in the Midlands', and I reckon we get the biggest draw of the area. Competing for fans with the afore mentioned big London clubs would probably mean that we'd be a club similar to the size of Fulham, with similar attendances around the 25,000 mark.
Quote from: Chipsticks on January 12, 2012, 09:35:26 PMDon't think so, one of our problems is that we'd have big, arguably bigger than Villa, clubs in close proximity to us as competition, in Spurs, Chelsea, and Arsenal. One of our advantages is that we've got a reputation (rightfully so) as the 'Biggest club in the Midlands', and I reckon we get the biggest draw of the area. Competing for fans with the afore mentioned big London clubs would probably mean that we'd be a club similar to the size of Fulham, with similar attendances around the 25,000 mark. We'd be bigger than Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea because (assuming we had the same history) we would be the oldest, most established club in the whole of the south east. Not only that, but if Villa had been a London club I don't think there would be an Arsenal as such. My understanding of Herbert Chapman was that his vision for Arsenal was to make them into the Aston Villa of the south, even down to rebuilding their stadium to match the grandeur of Villa Park. Indeed, I'm sure he changed Arsenal's kit to the red body/white sleeves (from all red) because he admired the famous claret body/blue sleeves design of the Villa kit.
Quote from: Trinitymiddle on January 12, 2012, 09:19:28 PMI think it makes a massive difference in this era of global Premiership footballYou can sell living in London to a player, especially a foreign player. Birmingham is a much harder sell. If a player was offered Birmingham or London on the same wages, they'd go for London every time.But Manchester/Liverpool is as difficult a sell as Birmingham surely?
Then London would have a European Cup and the whole world would not make a lick of sense.Cats would marry dogs and the seas would boil.But to answer your point, we'd be the best supported club in the land as we'd all be cock-er-nees and not miserable Brummie wankers and downtrodden Yammers, with more cash in the pocket to get down the game.The press would fawn over us and print endless stories about us.Redknapp would be our manager and we'd play 'triffic football.And we’d sing fack orf Arsenal, the city is ours. Of course, we'd have more fans wearing berets and flap caps at silly angles.