Who are you putting in to make up the 20 then?
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Competition Teams that are meant to be in the Premier League
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Huddersfield won league titles pre WW2 when football was much less “conventional” so to say, the concept of supporting a club was shaky back then.
Forest won the league and two ECs by the late seventies when football was much more comprehensive as a culture and competition.
There’s actually quite a lot of Forest supporters and I enjoyed the banter with them in the LC in 2014
Football has progressed so much in many ways, the standard of play, the pitch ect, our team back in the early to mid 90's was fucking shocking bar 1 or 2 great players
I just chuckled to myself... I cant think of any , so i am back tracking and going with your pick.
The likes of Derby, Preston, Burnley and Blackburn are all proper FOUNDER member clubs (of the FOOTBALL league, not just yer Premier League... to have the likes of Wimbledon or Oldham in there just feels wrong!)
I am not ashamed to say I'm a 'Historical Football Club snob'... But not just the
'big clubs' ...Ipswich, Forest and Derby weren't particularly big, they were small, provincial clubs who did BIG things!
Added to that the two Sheffield clubs... At least one of which, for me should always be in and around the top division....
then again, Notts County are one of the oldest clubs in existence, but don't quite fit the Top 20 clubs in the Country right now...
Chelsea & West Ham are difficult ones.... Apart from the obvious hatred for them, I grew up in a time where both were in the (old) 2nd Division.... Chelsea's 'glory days' were well behind them, and they also aren't a particularly old club (1905?) that makes them relative teen-agers compared to some grand old clubs!
This makes interesting reading:
www.football-stadiums.co.uk
some clubs are older than I thought!!
I'm going for 22 clubs ('cos that's what I think we should still have) and done some either/or's cos I just can't narrow it down!
1. Tottenham
2. Arseanal
3. Man Utd.
4. Man. City
5. Liverpool
6. Everton
7. Leeds Utd
8. Derby County
9. Nottingham Forest
10. Aston Villa
11. Wolverhampton Wanderers
12. Bolton Wanderers
13. Stoke City/Middlesbrough
14. West Bromwich Albion/Birmingham C.
15. Leiectser/Coventry City
16. West Ham/Chelsea
17. Newcastle/Sunderland
18. Blackburn Rovers/Blackpool
19. Burnley/Preston NE
20. Sheff. Weds./Sheff. Utd.
21. Ipswich/Norwich
22. Portsmouth/Southampton/Brighton
There.... That's my two p'enneth! I know I've listed over 30 clubs, but like the idea of some yo-yo'ing going on... just to keep everyone on their toes.... Avoids complacency!
...this feels like a proper close season thread!!?!
I am not ashamed to say I'm a 'Historical Football Club snob'... But not just the
'big clubs' ...Ipswich, Forest and Derby weren't particularly big, they were small, provincial clubs who did BIG things!
Added to that the two Sheffield clubs... At least one of which, for me should always be in and around the top division....
then again, Notts County are one of the oldest clubs in existence, but don't quite fit the Top 20 clubs in the Country right now...
Chelsea & West Ham are difficult ones.... Apart from the obvious hatred for them, I grew up in a time where both were in the (old) 2nd Division.... Chelsea's 'glory days' were well behind them, and they also aren't a particularly old club (1905?) that makes them relative teen-agers compared to some grand old clubs!
This makes interesting reading:
Oldest Football Clubs | List of the Oldest Football Teams in the World - Football-Stadiums.co.uk
If football hadn’t become an organised sport then it would just be twenty-two men kicking a pig’s bladder around in a field. As it happens it not only became organised but became arguably the biggest sport in the world, watched by millions on an almost daily basis. It is now big business, worth...
www.football-stadiums.co.uk
I'm going for 22 clubs ('cos that's what I think we should still have) and done some either/or's cos I just can't narrow it down!
1. Tottenham
2. Arseanal
3. Man Utd.
4. Man. City
5. Liverpool
6. Everton
7. Leeds Utd
8. Derby County
9. Nottingham Forest
10. Aston Villa
11. Wolverhampton Wanderers
12. Bolton Wanderers
13. Stoke City/Middlesbrough
14. West Bromwich Albion/Birmingham C.
15. Leiectser/Coventry City
16. West Ham/Chelsea
17. Newcastle/Sunderland
18. Blackburn Rovers/Blackpool
19. Burnley/Preston NE
20. Sheff. Weds./Sheff. Utd.
21. Ipswich/Norwich
22. Portsmouth/Southampton/Brighton
There.... That's my two p'enneth! I know I've listed over 30 clubs, but like the idea of some yo-yo'ing going on... just to keep everyone on their toes.... Avoids complacency!
...this feels like a proper close season thread!!?!
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Hehe or maybe a 10 team PL?
Something else just occurred to me when going through next season's actual PL teams (along with working out my preferred teams) I noticed summit quirky about the make up of the clubs....
Man City v Man Utd
Liverpool v Everton
Tottenham v Arseanal
Aston Villa v Wolves
Nottingham Forest v Leiectser City
Chelsea v West Ham
Fulham v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Brighton
Southampton v Bournemouth
Leeds Utd. v Newcastle Utd.
That's a LOT of local derbies & rivalries...
In fact, if you don't include Leeds/Newcastle (do they have any historic rivalry, other than being Northern one Club cities?) EVERY other club has a local rival to play...
even the likes of Chelsea/West Ham, and Palace/Brighton have historical rivalry... despite other clubs being slightly closer.
that's quite a quirk.... Sky are gonna have a field day with all those local rivalries...
And that's not even taking into account the animosity between Man Utd & Liverpool / Leeds, and us with Chelsea / West Ham (and Leiectser/Southampton according to them!)
Unless Sky have had this planned it all along...
If so, expect either Leeds to go down (and Sunderland to get promoted) or Newcastle to get relegated (unlikely now, I know) and Sheffield Utd to go up to rival Leeds!
S'weird, innit?
Man City v Man Utd
Liverpool v Everton
Tottenham v Arseanal
Aston Villa v Wolves
Nottingham Forest v Leiectser City
Chelsea v West Ham
Fulham v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Brighton
Southampton v Bournemouth
Leeds Utd. v Newcastle Utd.
That's a LOT of local derbies & rivalries...
In fact, if you don't include Leeds/Newcastle (do they have any historic rivalry, other than being Northern one Club cities?) EVERY other club has a local rival to play...
even the likes of Chelsea/West Ham, and Palace/Brighton have historical rivalry... despite other clubs being slightly closer.
that's quite a quirk.... Sky are gonna have a field day with all those local rivalries...
And that's not even taking into account the animosity between Man Utd & Liverpool / Leeds, and us with Chelsea / West Ham (and Leiectser/Southampton according to them!)
Unless Sky have had this planned it all along...
If so, expect either Leeds to go down (and Sunderland to get promoted) or Newcastle to get relegated (unlikely now, I know) and Sheffield Utd to go up to rival Leeds!
S'weird, innit?
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1) Tottenham Hotspur
2) Man United
3) Liverpool
4) Scum
5) Blue Scum
6) Man City
7) Everton
8) Aston Villa
9) Newcastle United
10) Sunderland
11) Leeds United
12) Wolves
13) Nottingham Forest
14) Derby County
15) Southampton
16) Pompey
17) West Brom
18) Sheffield Wednesday
19) Ipswich
20) West Ham (forgot about them LOL)
Every game is massive. Every game screams Premier League.
Shame clubs like Leicester City, Sheffield United, Birmingham City, Crystal Palace, Middlesbrough, Fulham etc. don't make the cut.
2) Man United
3) Liverpool
4) Scum
5) Blue Scum
6) Man City
7) Everton
8) Aston Villa
9) Newcastle United
10) Sunderland
11) Leeds United
12) Wolves
13) Nottingham Forest
14) Derby County
15) Southampton
16) Pompey
17) West Brom
18) Sheffield Wednesday
19) Ipswich
20) West Ham (forgot about them LOL)
Every game is massive. Every game screams Premier League.
Shame clubs like Leicester City, Sheffield United, Birmingham City, Crystal Palace, Middlesbrough, Fulham etc. don't make the cut.
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