So just tell me, so I'm up to speed, what you having Stanley Matthews in your team decades before I was born has to do with your current team in 2020? Is it some kind of magical formula that makes you amazing? Maybe you could explain how Portsmouth's FA Cup win has helped them since?
What you described is history, of which you have more than us. You don't get to a certain level and then stay that way unless you're consistently performing, you become a smaller club if you perform worse, which is exactly what's happened to both our clubs.
We've come down from the Championship, so there's one level of expectations. We have a bigger budget than most, there's another. We have a squad that, although struggled last year, has played at a higher level. Add another level.
What you consider to be a "big club" sounds like who has the bigger history, which is fine if you're talking about overall successes, but I was not. I measure it on the present. And outside of one season in 2010-11, you haven't even been in the top flight. Since then, we've been in it three more times, reached an FA Cup final and played in Europe. That doesn't make us Manchester United all of a sudden, let's be fair, but it does mean the level of expectation on us is much higher, a reason Sunderland are constantly talked about as punching below their weight.
If you've got to stretch back to the 50s and 60s to throw your weight around, then that says more about your current status than it does about ours.