You’re right with everything you say there vat except you avoided the bit about fans still going on like we’re a PL club because we got there for 8 years.
Paul Jewell, as Bigroy said, spent plenty to get us to the top. Not as much as some clubs but he spent it wisely. We already had a Division 1 squad when we won Division 2. We no longer have the ability to do that. Football has changed and we are no longer a club who can attract the best players because we flash the cash. If the likes of Ellington, Liddell, Filan, Bullard, Kavanagh, Roberts, De Vos were avaialble today in todays market they wouldn’t look twice at us.
The rise of Wigan Athletic was a superb story we were all glad to see but it’s gone and will never happen again unless bankrolled to the hilt. It’s like the Utd dominance of the 90s (which OGS references regular btw) or your mates from across Stanley Park in the 80s. Will never happen again unless they are oil ran like City.
“Your mates from across Stanley Park”?
What does that mean? Expand and explain.
I couldnt give 2 shits about Liverpool, or Everton, in all honesty. Id say Liverpool are the bigger club. Theyve been far more successful. But Everton’s problem is the fact that they spend half their time worrying about it.