This "massive" club just up the A19...

I've always considered them 'bigger' than us by the usual measures. Cups won, capacity crowd size.
Dare I mention 'benefactor'?

Mind you, we did buy Alf Common off them, so maybe that tips the balance.

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Alzi said:
Not sure if there’s anything more tedious than “who is the bigger club” debates.

Every football supporter is going to be biased.

Ultimately who cares?
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Couldn't agree more, it's an emotive measure and meaningless in a great many cases really, because everyone applies a different metric.

Attendances seem to be the biggest red herring, but if that was the driving factor then Dortmund would be the biggest club in Germany.

We all know some clubs are obviously 'bigger' than others, e.g. Man Utd are bigger than Watford, but its when fans start debating the minutiae it gets very tiresome.
 
Nero said:
I work with some genuinely brilliant Sunderland supporting people. It's sometimes easy to form an opinion based around online content. The people I know are decent, honest and great to be around. They love their club and tend to hate Newcastle. That rivalry means games against Boro don't mean as much, which I understand.

The Geordies I know are all sound as well by the way. Those in the Northumberland area don't actually think of Sunderland at all either.
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Good post, lots of silly stereotyping on here I'm afraid.
 
The point of my post was not to say we are a bigger club, or what size club we are. I don't refer to that at all.
It was to ridicule Sunderland fans' obsession with their own size, by pointing out that for a "massive" club they have under-performed our club and against our club in my lifetime; a club they talk down as insignificant and irrelevant.
They have a one eyed definition of "massive".
 
"Massive" doesn't do them justice. They're phuckin ginormous. They're on a scale never seen before. They're just an irrelevance who've had little or no impact on english football for decades.
 
indeedido said:
The point of my post was not to say we are a bigger club, or what size club we are. I don't refer to that at all.
It was to ridicule Sunderland fans' obsession with their own size, by pointing out that for a "massive" club they have under-performed our club and against our club in my lifetime; a club they talk down as insignificant and irrelevant.
They have a one eyed definition of "massive".
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Since the dawn of the Premiership Sunderland have spent one more season there than we have.
However, despite their extra season we have won more premiership games and earned more premiership points.
 
Amazing how the "massive club" debate so easily triggers their fans 😆

"Sunderland aren't a bigger club than Stoke City"

Souness talking to a Sunderland fan on Talksport just now. What an idiot that man is. He also said he doesn't think we made a counter offer to Neil once Stoke were interested. Says Neil left because of 'our model' of buying young. Said our model is a model that improving young players for "the...
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