We are seen by some as a small club but with fans who believe we are a big club.Let's face it, the club has been acting small time for several years now, thanks to Lerners idiotic stewardship.I wonder if we will ever get back to being a big club again.
I'm hoping Newcastle hate us even more next month.
It varies from club to club.All it took for Newcastle was a daft banner, as mentioned earlier. I thought it was a bit shit at the time, but it really seems to have gotten to them, the oddballs. Everton do seem to genuinely despise us. I think a big part of that was the green eyed monster, when we had money early in the RL era, and looked like we would take their god-given right to be pushing for the CL. I don't recall them being as bitter before, but older fans do mention the League Cup in the 1970s as the jumping off point. Sunderland -who on the whole- tend to be some of the better fans in the league, have had a bee in their bonnet ever since Darren Bent ditched them in 2011. They genuinely couldn't understand why a bigger club that had been pushing towards the upper end of the table for a number of years previously might have been a more attractive option than a yo yo club marooned up in a city that makes Chernobyl look plush. Norwich= Lambert. Leicester= Brian LittleThe rest would probably be largely indifferent to us, save for the fact that for the past five years we have acted like Southampton and Cov in the 80s and 90s -doing just enough to stay up and boring everyone into submission in the process. Liverpool and Citeh fans do seem to have a bit of time for us, weirdly. In Citeh's case, it might be in a 'There but for the grace of God go I' way. Our local neighbours don't count. And most of them can't count. Trophies or anything else. Wolves and Forest seem to be a bit less rabid, because they actually seem to have pride in their own clubs' achievements. I've seen it mentioned in a few places that we are delusional, and that we don't count as a big club because of our success pre WW2. It's an odd sort of logic, but even if we follow that train of thought, we have still won, the FA Cup, the league, the European Cup, European Super Cup and League Cup five times since then. How many 'nothing' clubs have won nine major trophies from that period to this? Since football was invented in 1992, we've finished 2nd and 4th, and had a number of consistent top six finishes, plus won two league cups. That's a record not dissimilar to those fashionable North London titans Tottingham. I'm always delighted to know that Keown OG, Ian Wright and the rest still hold us in such high regard, but our record is still infinitely better than most of the dross in the top flight - even if you amputate the Victorian era from our history (and why would you honestly want to do that). So fuck'em. Fuck' em all.
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