Jimmy smith
Active Member
Thinking about everything, History (recent and not so recent),fans, players, trophies etc. Who would you consider a similar club to us?
Obviously things get distorted when rich businessmen get involved at seemingly smaller clubs or when big clubs enter financial problems but a names i'd throw out there are:
1) Cardiff - the reason I came up with this thread. They are a one club city (slightly bigger than Norwich and more or less as remote),they have had recent flirtation with the premiership and did well in a couple of cups recently. Vincent Tan creates a slightly strange picture as does their recent financial woes but the two almost cancel each other out.
2) Leicester - Their spell in the thousands was a bit similar to ours in the 90's. They are now enjoying the fruits of investment but seem to hover around a similar level as us and seem to often be linked with the same players as us especially when we're in the same league.
3) Wolves - They seem to have gone through what we went through 5 years ago and despite it not being the most convincing win versus us, they look more likely to challenge the top end of the table this time round. Their stadium is a bit better than our now but they get similar catchment and fan base and in all likelihood we'll forever overtake/ be overtaken by them until one of us does something catastrophically bad and folds!
Obviously things get distorted when rich businessmen get involved at seemingly smaller clubs or when big clubs enter financial problems but a names i'd throw out there are:
1) Cardiff - the reason I came up with this thread. They are a one club city (slightly bigger than Norwich and more or less as remote),they have had recent flirtation with the premiership and did well in a couple of cups recently. Vincent Tan creates a slightly strange picture as does their recent financial woes but the two almost cancel each other out.
2) Leicester - Their spell in the thousands was a bit similar to ours in the 90's. They are now enjoying the fruits of investment but seem to hover around a similar level as us and seem to often be linked with the same players as us especially when we're in the same league.
3) Wolves - They seem to have gone through what we went through 5 years ago and despite it not being the most convincing win versus us, they look more likely to challenge the top end of the table this time round. Their stadium is a bit better than our now but they get similar catchment and fan base and in all likelihood we'll forever overtake/ be overtaken by them until one of us does something catastrophically bad and folds!
