I've just had a thought, on those record attendances how many were set outside of the top division? Obviously ours because we didn't set it in the last 4 years, but there might be others where a team looks out of place because during the peak times for fans going to games the club was lower down the leagues than we're used to them being. (and others where it's higher for the opposite reason)
Oh well if Colin said it then forget what I said and accept my apologies. I don't particularly dislike Leeds and yes you are,IMO, a big club. A lot bigger than the likes of Leicester that's for sure. However, claiming to possibly be the 4th biggest is laughable. Top ten, yes. Top five, no.
For some reason that just made me think about the Villa fans in the Cup game the other year singing we were only there to see them. It was pretty much our lowest attendance of the season to that point so we were quite happy for them to take responsibility.
Manchester United, Aston Villa, Everton, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United are all bigger. I'd put Leeds around Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and West Ham. Sheff Wednesday, Blackburn Rovers and Ipswich Town just behind them.
We have a far bigger fanbase than Villa and Everton. I'd put us right alongside Spurs, Man City and Newcastle. Comfortably behind the megaclubs scum, Liverpool, Arsenal and, to a lesser extent, Chelsea.
Clearly you disagree with me, fine, but I don't see how you could possibly say it's "laughable" for someone else to think a club even you consider to be top 10 to have some sort of claim to 4th. Obviously we've taken a big hit in the last 10 years compared to Chelsea, but I wouldn't think it was ludicrous for someone to claim we were the 4th biggest club in the country, just like if someone said we were 8th. TBH I don't think there's much at all separating the 5-7 clubs below Arsenal and a lot of it has to do with personal feelings, i.e. how much do teams look forward to playing us/want to beat us etc.
The fakhts don't. Also: Doesn't necessarily show fanbase, but shows how many active supporters the club have. Hence why Liverpool come above Man U and why Chelsea don't appear.
Chelsea have, in the last ten years, won the League title three times. The FA Cup three times and the League Cup once. That includes a double I believe. They have also appeared in a European Cup final and just before that ten year period won the Cup Winners Cup and European Super Cup. That far outweighs what Leeds achieved in their golden era, or at least I think it does. On history, recent or not, that makes them a bigger club than Leeds. That is why I find it laughable. I don't want this to degenerate into a childish slagging match so please don't come back at me with any Colin ****** quotes on how big Leeds are.
But we weren't a Russian billionaire's plaything at the time. We've also got a larger traditional fanbase. We clearly just have different opinions so there's no point arguing... but I said we were bigger first so I win.
The same season - Christmas day V Rotherham 1948 we had a crowd of 49,655 which would have equalled or exceeded the 55,000 against Man U but for a transport strike on the day. City had over 70,000 applications for tickets for that match. Also the fan-base of any club is irrelevant unless those fans are in some way contributing to the coffers of the club.
let me get this right, Whoever spends most money in the transfer window is the biggest club? **** everything else HAHA by that theory we are down in the lower leagues
