Big Clubs Ranked Article

[TelfordVilla]

Interesting placement of Newcastle and Sheff Weds as opposed to Sunderland. Newcastle have won nowt for centuries. Sunderland won something more recently than toon.

[Risso]

The only big thing about Newcastle is the ground. On every other measure, absolutely not. Bigger than us, you're having an absolute laugh.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Everton behind Newcastle, Wednesday and Leeds? Really?

[maidstonevillain]

I would probably place Everton and ManC in the second group, and drop Chelsea a group. "A big 7".

[eamonn]

Everton and us are neck and neckkkkh.

[LeeB]

Everton and us are neck and neckkkkh.

There's probably no two teams more evenly matched in terms of history, support and achievements.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Everton and us are neck and neckkkkh.

There's probably no two teams more evenly matched in terms of history, support and achievements.

We have a much larger support than Everton, who are very much in Liverpools shadow both in Liverpool and even more so in surrounding towns like St Helens and Runcorn. Villa by contrast have the largest following in Birmingham and a large following in many other smaller towns in the Midlands like Worcester, Stratford, Shrewsbury, Telford, Redditch etc.

Agree that in terms of trophies and achievements we are very close, but in terms of support we are a long way ahead.

[Gerrin]

Leeds and Newcastle get the attendances. Well they do now. When at university I went to St James Park a few times 1992/3. Can’t remember the first game but there were only 17000 there and it was 6 quid when Villa was 7. Then there was the FA Cup game against Bournemouth. Half price because game was abandoned the previous week. Capacity 30000 attendance 26000.

Then Kevin Keegan and all of a sudden they all come out of the woodwork.

Absolutely correct between 1978 and 1992 they spent 9 seasons outside the top flight. I think they may well be heading for those kind of attendances again, when the fans are allowed back, they hate Ashley so much.

[richtheholtender]

Everton and us are neck and neckkkkh.

There's probably no two teams more evenly matched in terms of history, support and achievements.

We have a much larger support than Everton, who are very much in Liverpools shadow both in Liverpool and even more so in surrounding towns like St Helens and Runcorn. Villa by contrast have the largest following in Birmingham and a large following in many other smaller towns in the Midlands like Worcester, Stratford, Shrewsbury, Telford, Redditch etc.

Agree that in terms of trophies and achievements we are very close, but in terms of support we are a long way ahead.

The fact the we’ve won the big one in Europe just edges us above them

[ASHTONVILLA]

Everton and us are neck and neckkkkh.

There's probably no two teams more evenly matched in terms of history, support and achievements.

We have a much larger support than Everton, who are very much in Liverpools shadow both in Liverpool and even more so in surrounding towns like St Helens and Runcorn. Villa by contrast have the largest following in Birmingham and a large following in many other smaller towns in the Midlands like Worcester, Stratford, Shrewsbury, Telford, Redditch etc.

Agree that in terms of trophies and achievements we are very close, but in terms of support we are a long way ahead.

The fact the we’ve won the big one in Europe just edges us above them

Think they might have won it themselves had they not been banned from Europe due to their naughty neighbors antics the year before. They had a great team that season.

[cdbearsfan]

A lot of people seem to buy the Leedscastle hype.

Newcastle bigger than Villa 🤣🤣🤣
Poxy Leeds, fewer seasons in the top flight than Small Heath, bigger than Everton 🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I really think we need to stop being so sniffy about Chelski and Oil Barons FC as we've just had £400m pumped into us over the last 2 seasons, we're hardly whiter than white when it comes to having rich owners!

I'm always 'sniffy' about  Chelski in a way that I've never been about say Man City. Pre Abramovich they were a classless shitty cinderella club who used to attract premadonna players and won next to fuck all. Their ground was a pile of crap and you were so far from the pitch you could hardly see and I hated going there.
Then an oil soaked Russian twat who rode on the back of the break up of the USSR allying himself with some pretty unsavoury political characters making billions  with some unusually creative deals which wouldn't stand up to anything more than cursory scrutiny decided to buy a club I doubt he had ever heard of before because they just happened to be situated in the right part of London town. All this while the majority of ordinary russians missed out and suffered in new ways in the  post communist breakup as the western adopted buzzwords of perestroika and glasnost proved a false dawn.
The Chelski that grew out of this has come to epitomise all the worst aspects and excesses of modern premier league football and the disgusting monster cash cow aided and abetted by the likes of Sky.
I still hate going to Chelski, yes you can see the pitch OK but no matter how many trophies they buy it was, is, and always will remain the most classless souless shit house of a football club in existence.
Sniffy ? Too right I am. The very mention of their name and I need to put on my face mask.
I'm not overly keen on Man City either I admit.

[TelfordVilla]

I really think we need to stop being so sniffy about Chelski and Oil Barons FC as we've just had £400m pumped into us over the last 2 seasons, we're hardly whiter than white when it comes to having rich owners!

I'm always 'sniffy' about  Chelski in a way that I've never been about say Man City. Pre Abramovich they were a classless shitty cinderella club who used to attract premadonna players and won next to fuck all. Their ground was a pile of crap and you were so far from the pitch you could hardly see and I hated going there.
Then an oil soaked Russian twat who rode on the back of the break up of the USSR allying himself with some pretty unsavoury political characters making billions  with some unusually creative deals which wouldn't stand up to anything more than cursory scrutiny decided to buy a club I doubt he had ever heard of before because they just happened to be situated in the right part of London town. All this while the majority of ordinary russians missed out and suffered in new ways in the  post communist breakup as the western adopted buzzwords of perestroika and glasnost proved a false dawn.
The Chelski that grew out of this has come to epitomise all the worst aspects and excesses of modern premier league football and the disgusting monster cash cow aided and abetted by the likes of Sky.
I still hate going to Chelski, yes you can see the pitch OK but no matter how many trophies they buy it was, is, and always will remain the most classless souless shit house of a football club in existence.
Sniffy ? Too right I am. The very mention of their name and I need to put on my face mask.
I'm not overly keen on Man City either I admit.

  I'm guessing this is not penned by john terry

[N'ZMAV]

we are Aston Villa - we are the biggest. Sod the rest.

[Toronto Villa]

We were the Chelsea of the time when we won many of our trophies. It makes us a big club. But in the same way it should not diminish what Chelsea have achieved over the past 15+ years. Abramovich bought them in 2003 and changed the landscape forever. They are now a legitimately big club. In the same way now Man City. It's almost immaterial that neither really have the history before the PL. The fact is they have both won loads of trophies between them. If you ask anyone (not Villa related) in their 20's and some even in their early 30's we are not a big club. Doesn't mean that is accurate. But our last trophy was 1996 and we won the league 40 years ago.

We deserve our history to be respected because we earned it through tangible achievement. As do clubs that won things more recently.