Simon Jordan - "Wendies Bigger club than Sheffield Utd"

[Prestonblade]

Draw your own conclusions, and in my lifetime since I started supporting United in 1987, I'd say we have been the bigger club since then. All about opinions though. UTB.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Not accurate

 

[Bladesman101]

It’s always a great sign of a big club when you’ve got to keep reminding everyone you’re a big club. “We are famous, honest!!!”

 

[LondonRoad]

I’ve always felt this to be the case.

He is a South London spiv. He often speaks quickly, liberally sprinkling unusual vocabulary - albeit, not always using the words correctly - through his monologues which seems to have created for some, a false impression that he is in some way intelligent or is some sort of sage in matters of football governance.

Whenever I hear him on one of his spiels, I can’t help but recall how another South Londoner - Dave Bassett - also used to speak with that 100mph delivery which was often laced with misplaced or simply wrong words. It is as if their brains can’t keep up with their mouths.

The difference between the two men, of course, is that Harry was a genius and excelled in his chosen vocation where as Jordan had a huge and costly failure.

Bang on

 

[Pegster]

Not accurate

Why , which figures are incorrect ?

 

[coaxingstar71]

I agree with Sportbilly /Detroit Blade , that comparisons are meaningless.

It's probably true that if both clubs were doing well and on a par, they would get bigger attendances. However the main reason for that is that their rusty pile of shite ground still holds about 7,500 more than ours (assuming parts of it haven't been closed). In terms of fanbase, historically they always had more but I think this has evened out since around the year 2000 and we may even have more.

You can't really compare trophies won as apart from a League Cup, neither has won anything significant since before WW2. They will say they have 4 League wins, however we won the FA Cup 4 times and at the time that was more prestigious, just check the attendances for pre-war cup games compared to League games.

However, it's quite clear that our current standing and financial position and assets is far, far better than theirs.

 

[Northernsoulblade]

After the derby ones things clear Wendy fans are far bigger primark shoppers than us

 

[Bell4]

Whilst I dont agree with him on this issue ,I'd say he usually speaks a lot of sense and he's not afraid of saying it to whoever....
People do like listening to him .

 

[Stretch]

They could be 10 times bigger for all I care. I still wouldn't wipe my arse on one of their shirts. Because my arse (for all it's disgusting, middle aged imperfection) still deserves better.

 

[Zero dark thirty]

My nob is bigger than Leonardo Di Caprio's but he's currently shagging models and I'm not.

I'd rather be watching my club in the Prem than telling everyone how "big" we are.

1st how do you know your nob is bigger than his.anything you'd like to tell us.

 

[Borbokisfreekick]

Some interesting stats here to add to the debate and dispel some myths about the pigs. All the below don’t count this season and are up to the end of 2024-2025. Source is: european-football-statistics.co.uk.

Average Attendance this century since 2000-2001 season:
Blades: 23,347
Pigs: 23,006

All time average Attendance:
Blades: 19,550
Pigs: 21,563 (larger stadium and big away end helps here)

Years at each level;
Blades: Tier 1 - 63, Tier 2 - 47, Tier 3 - 11, Tier 4 - 1
Pigs: Tier 1 - 66, Tier 2 - 45, Tier 3 - 11, Tier 4 - 0


All time average league position (lower the number the better):
Blades: 22.2 place
Pigs: 22.4 place

Longest stretch outside of the top flight
Blades 14 years
Pigs 25 years / 14 years

Longest stretch in the top flight:
Blades 37 years
Pigs 16 years

Official competitive games derby record:
Blades 49 wins
Pigs 42 wins

 

[nopigfansintown]

Jordan is the idiot's idea of an intelligent bloke. His pseudo intellectual claptrap is quite easily exposed the odd time they have anyone on there who can hold a teenage debating club level spar. On those occasions he's found to have come to the battle of wits unnamed.

The pigs and United size argument depends on the metrics used. I dismiss everything pre Premier League as it's all totally irrelevant in 2025. Many would go further and dismiss anything that's irrelevant in the modern football paradigm e.g. the last 5-10 years. United's four FA Cups when it was the biggest prize in England doesn't really butter much bread in 2025; nor does the pigs League Cup when it was on par with the JPT or something in the early 1990s (their FA Cup Final runs in '66 and the early '90s are more impressive). Yes, there was a reason QPR, Swindon, Pigs, Norwich, Leicester, Oxford, Norwich, Luton etc won the League Cup back then. Say to the modern fan that United were Champions of Great Britain and they'll look at you gone out. Say to the average pig that we were the last Sheffield team to win the top flight (war league in the 1940s) and they won't believe you. Tell them that we beat them in the Cup when it was THE biggest competition before going on to win it...

Crowds have always shifted one way and the other. United had a period of a Chansiri on steroids running us, destroying the club and the ground which left them with a dominant period in the 80s-90s. The pigs had a chance to take over the city and destroy us including re crowds. They singularly failed to do it despite regular FA funds to do up their ground, and an away end that gave them up to 8,000 seats to give the likes of us in derbies and the bigger top flight clubs. Our owners had left us for dead.Those times aren't coming back no matter how much they (or the likes of Jordan) harp on this selective nostalgia. The pigs were given an unparalleled chance to prove their massiveness and kill a prone United. An open goal if you would. They ultimately weren't big enough to do so. Their superiority complex is largely derived from this period. Since then United have competed and the gap has swung massively in the other direction