Bigger Club: Everton or Man City

[Tom Hughes]

Another example of poor journalism. Firstly John Moores was born and brought up in what is now Greater Manchester. He was never a teenager on Goodison's terraces. He started his pools business distributing pools coupons outside Old Trafford.

He came into the club in 1960. Only a few years after the club had the highest average attendance in the country and were constantly in the top few best supported.... in comfortably the finest stadium. Yes, he helped underwrite the signing spree of the 60s, but financially that was all covered by our matchday and other incomes, which were at least the match of any other club.

That in relative and/or real terms is not the same as Man City's rise.

 

[Brennan]

I’m not sure why people are debating the financial actions of City, as it’s irrelevant.

They are objectively a much bigger club than us.

 

[Tom Hughes]

I think they also held the record attendance for a league game up until Spurs broke with at Wembley a few years back. Man City always reminded me in terms of fan base, and general size of us, they just did not have the success to go with it. I think that maybe also had something to do with both clubs being in similar sized cities, that both held a relationship with ‘bigger’, more traditionally successful clubs.

That biggest attendance at Maine Rd was for an FA Cup game. I think the biggest league attendance there was for a Man Utd (home) game v Arsenal, not a City match(when they relocated after the war while Old Trafford was repaired).

After the war Utd overtook City in terms of support. City's attendances had a flourish in the mid 70s to early 80s..... and were steady enough after, but according to "through the turnstiles" (Tabner) historically Everton's were normally higher.

 

[Big Sams Undies]

Everton Dads think we’re the bigger club

Everyone under 50 knows that’s absolute rubbish

 

[Toffeeslam]

Everton Dads think we’re the bigger club

Everyone under 50 knows that’s absolute rubbish

But those under 50’s think football started in 1992 or when FIFA released the game, anyway crap thread this

 

[riddick]

I mean, both are right. Everton ARE a huge historical club and City ARE the bigger team. What they've done is really just not real tho.

 

[billyblue80]

We used to be slightly bigger they're on a different planet to us now.

 

[Goodisongang]

we arent a big club anymore, we were once a big club, many many years ago.

 

[Davideeyore]

Everton Dads think we’re the bigger club

Everyone under 50 knows that’s absolute rubbish

Interesting deduction. I'm 50 and I firmly believe Everton are a far bigger club than City.

But we can measure it in different ways sadly they're relevant, they've just won the European Cup, they've just won the league, they've just won the FA Cup. They have 9 titles now like us. They're very rich if not the richest club (?) their success in the last 10 years or so firmly puts them on the map. Just like Chelsea in the decade or so before.

We're a club with an illustrious history but having stood still for 30 years we've become very irrelevant. Other than to us and others to mock.

But as fans we carry the club and that makes us a far bigger club than City or even Chelsea, or West Ham or Leicester. Or Newcastle.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

It’s Man City

Not even close

Yes, it’s down to the money, but it is what it is

They’re the best club team on the planet right now and we’re so crap that you’d need to flush multiple times

The imbeciles that run our club should be utterly ashamed

 

[Tel001]

You're taking 150 years of existence vs a cheat code. It's recency bias to suggest different. Have they won more in the last decade than EVERYONE else? Absolutely. Would I be chuffed if Kenwright wasn't the biggest egomaniac on the planet and simply sold to Mansour? Absolutely. Doesn't mean it's "real".

We tried using cheat code too mate but ballsed it up.

They were similar to us in a lot of ways … they had there team in the 70’s ( I think) with summer bee etc and had a European cup win as we have.

Unfortunately they are now in a dominating position and look to be there for the forseable future .

They are bigger than us now , better ground , bigger brand, can pay the most wages , can attract the best players and managers and have now just won the treble

 

[Tel001]

Man City are easily a bigger club than us now, regardless of how they've done it. We are now the only club of the 4 biggest in the north west not to have been European champions.

First team to have under soil heating though… they can’t take that away from us

 

[Blue peter]

we arent a big club anymore, we were once a big club, many many years ago.

It’s not quite as bad a fall from grace, but our slow demise always had hints of the sort of fall that the likes of Preston and Blackpool from some of their success in the 50s. They were obviously not of the size of us, but they had successes and as the game progressed they disappeared into the background and into a degree of anonymity and irrelevance.

 

[Kurt.]

We don’t deserve to be mentioned in any conversation in regards to big clubs anymore …especially Man City …we’re an irrelevance to most

 

[Royal]

This year they have matched our league winners tally and claimed the Champions League as well.

Last year we might have had an argument, but we no longer do.