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Post by AlliG on May 18, 2021 10:09:47 GMT
In the historic averages they are 3000 ahead of us. To be fair they are in a much bigger city with a huge catchment so they should be It’s true Birmingham City are the biggest historic failures overall. They have cultivated a massive failure for a 100 years in a city of two million people that bears the name of their (former) second city. It’s like if Manchester City had hardly ever played in the top flight and won nothing even before loads of Arab cash. We’ve spent more time in the top flight than them. And I can’t think of any legends like Matthews or Banks that played for Brum either. Birmingham City are just a bigger version of the Vale. My brother-in-law is a Blues fan and, just like the Vale fans about us, he gets far more excited when the Villa lose than he does when Birmingham City win.
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Post by durbanscircus on May 18, 2021 11:05:34 GMT
In the historic averages they are 3000 ahead of us. To be fair they are in a much bigger city with a huge catchment so they should be It’s true Birmingham City are the biggest historic failures overall. They have cultivated a massive failure for a 100 years in a city of two million people that bears the name of their (former) second city. It’s like if Manchester City had hardly ever played in the top flight and won nothing even before loads of Arab cash. We’ve spent more time in the top flight than them. And I can’t think of any legends like Matthews or Banks that played for Brum either. This is 100% accurate. Stoke have a catchment area which stretches loosely from Market Drayton out in the west to Uttoxeter in the east and Stafford in the south- virtually nowhere north of Kidsgrove- possibly 550,000 people in total. Blues have East and South Birmingham and Solihull and a bit of Redditch in the south-750,00- 800,000 people- they should be much better supported than us and have the same support as Sunderland with that catchment area. The fact is they once they did and lost the lot in decade. My first visit to St Andrews was in 1973 and I think they were the fourth best supported club in England that season - higher than the Villa- I think they had around 40,000 for the Stoke game. They had three forwards in Francis, Hatton and Latchford who were to score 750 top flight goals between them (albeit for a variety of clubs). Thirteen years later they were being dumped out of the FA cup by Altringham in front of 6,000 Ten years after that Barry Fry got a Psychic to piss on all four corners of the pitch to get rid of a gypsies curse - I think they were relegated soon after. to the third division Roll on to the current day, Wolves got investment from China via the infrastructure and construction giants Fosun. Blues got Chinese investment from the Triads via a Hong Kong Hairdresser who went to prison because he couldnt explain why his haircuts were worth £80 MILLION. He eventually sold to another Chinese investor who has now sold the ground to a Far East property developer and separately registered a value for the club of £240m on the HK stock exchange.Meanwhile two sides of the ground have now been closed by the council because they are structurally unsafe. Blues are the biggest club not to win the FA cup, their history is also comically tragic, they have won more than us but my God they make me laugh, the world would be a poorer place without them By the way never go for a night out with a Blue Nose, they will go on and on and on about how sh*t the Villa are, How the City is Blue, how "Our Trev" was more important than Jesus to human development, how every one else's fans are crap, and above all else they have always "Bin it, sin it, and dun it"
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