They are a decent premiership team, no more. They had an amazing season in the sun and that was great for football. They are now on their gradual descent. To label them a role model ignores their dubious history. They are a relatively minor club. We are far bigger than clubs like Leicester, WBA, Stoke and Southampton, often touted on here as being of ‘comparable size’. They’ve simply happened on some dosh. If and when we get back to the Premiership we’ll leave such nonentities standing.
Some of our fans can’t wait to laud other clubs whilst diminishing our own. Anyone who takes a bit of pride in our club, except by way of glorying in upanatem and underdogging, is shouted down as ‘talking like the pigs’.
We’re massive.