If they became big enough and started to become recognisable as potential rivals could it boost City? It's always better to win against a rival Has there been somewhere an established club has seen a minnow come through the leagues to become a rival where we can compare the effect on their attendances of having a new local rival. (It's obviously a joke about them becoming rivals, but then if 4 years ago I told you that now we'd be 2nd favourites for the FA Cup, sitting reasonably comfortably in the league, and set to qualify for Europe ahead of Man U you'd have had me committed.
