remind me again how many seasons your club has spent in top flight football, I like Swansea and love how you play the game but don't get above yourself mate sunderland are and always will be a bigger club than Swansea. that aside good luck today and next season !!
I don't need to check any record books. When considering top/big Clubs in the North East of England, the first team to spring to mind would be Newcastle United. Anyway,referring to your Club as being " big/bigger" is so juvenile.
I remember Sunderland as a major force in the old Div1 years ago and were a much bigger club than they are today. They have so underachieved for a club that was bigger than most sides at the time. Remember Bob S running on to the pitch when Sunderland beat Leeds in the Fa cup final i think in 1973, He always wore a trilby and some sort of mac and it was so funny seeing him run onto the wembley pitch coat flapping in the wind in rapturous joy for his team winning the cup. What a great man he was and sadly that was the last time Sunderland has won anything...they are a massive club who sadly have not performed to their potential ever since..
I've never quite understood that line. Potential is defined by what ? How good the players are ? How much financial backing a team has ? Surely when a team is perceived to be not living up to their potential for 30 odd years then maybe that's because they are actually achieving their potential? That's just how good their team is. I can understand a team underachieving for a season or two, because their players may be better than the results show, but if there is no improvement then I would assume that we are overestimating how good their team is. A team is constantly evolving with players changing every season - so it's not one team that underachieves is it ? Manchester City are living up to their potential in the PL at the moment because they have money and top players. Stoke are achieving their potential most would say, as are Sunderland and Swansea. That's just how good we are.
juvenile maybe but it is true, as a fan of a club who have spent what 3 year in the premier league it shows a lot of ignorance to label a club who have spent the last 8 years in the premier league as a yo yo club !!!!!! just saying like
Sunderland were one of the "big clubs" back in the day. Player's like Charlie Buchan,Len Shackleton,and ex Swansea Town player Ray Daniel,graced the game. But that was such a long time ago. Now they are just another Club struggling to cling on to a top table place,and this season showed them for what they have become,virtually anonymous when discussing today's "big club's". Newcastle are the "big club" in the North East,so you should just learn to live with that.
