Dunno if there are any really

This league is full of badly run clubs who are bigger than us (Leeds, Villa, Wolves, Birmingham, Forest arguably, and the absolute car crash that is Sunderland). Well-run or big spending smaller clubs get out of this league and/or stay in the Prem all the time (Brighton and Huddersfield; Burnley, Bournemouth, Watford etc).

If we wanted a model for the future, it might be some kind of cross between Swansea and Burnley I suppose. Swansea for the football they've often played; Burnley for their patience and good husbandry.

But in the end, it's up to us to forge our own identity: not some incorrigibly soft "Norwich City way", but which makes a virtue out of a necessity, just as we did in the late 80s and early 90s.

Posted By: thebigfeller, Jul 10, 09:05:26