The expression ‘big clubs' is banded around much these days. You know the sort of teams - Newcastle, Aston Villa, Everton in the Premiership, Leeds United in the Championship.
Why are they big? Well they all have big home crowds – Newcastle regularly gets 52,000, the other three can all potentially get over 40,000. Granted it’s not as much as Manchester United but in these days of all-seater stadia these are big crowds. These clubs have history – they’ve won things, in the case of Villa they were one of the founders of the league. But then again so were Preston and Notts County and look at them now. But do big clubs deserve success just because they are big? If you listen to some of the cliché-ridden commentaries of television football commentators, then the a...
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