top 3 to 4 English clubs, according to Martin Jol

in terms of TRADITION

who are they ?

the greatest Dutch manager of ALL TIME is very keen to sign a new contract at HSV and considers job offers by the likes of ManCity to be a NUISANCE

says the Dutch LEGEND

"we (ie HSV) are a great club with fantastic fans, and a good "environment", like only few clubs in England. HSV is a real "Traditionsclub" (a club with a huge tradition), of which there are not more than 3 or 4 in the EPL"

http://www.sport1.de/de/fussball/fussball_uefacup/artikel_92514.html

unfortunately, Jol fails to mention his

TOP 3 or 4 EPL clubs in terms of TRADITION, FANS...

so what could they be ?

certainly

1. Liverpool
2. Newcastle

but who are the other two ???

hmmmHMMMhmm

Forest that is! Even though not currently in the PL...

1. Liverpool
2. Newcastle
3. WBA
4. Martin O'Neill

According to BMJ:

1. Spurs - great tradition of fucking up
2. WBA
3. Coventry City

It's always been Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal.

Parks lives wrote:It's always been Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal.

apart from when it wasn't

NO WAY is Arsenal in there

I think Jol is not referring to the MOST SUCCESSFUL clubs

he means the whole package

FANS, PASSION, STADIUM, HISTORY...

what about

Liverpool + Newcastle + ManU + WestHam

??

I'm sure one of them is Spurs otto.

Liverpool & Man United definetly.

Arsenal... then... Villa I reckon.

Dragões azuis e brancos wrote:

Arsenal... .

why do you ALL mention ARSENAL



they have ZERO PASSION

they play in a LIBRARY

apart from Ian Wright, Tony Adams and WEnger you cannot even hate them, they are so bland



surely, NEWCASTLE

maybe Spurs indeed

have to be up there

Liverpool and Manchester United

then Arsenal and Everton

then Aston Villa, Spurs, Newcastle, Chelsea and Manchester City

then Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and MK Dons.

What makes you rank everton above Villa Glenn?

Well he knows MON is a disgrace so cant be Villa!

I say:

Liverpool
Man Utd
Spurs
Newcastle

I wonder what the most supported teams are in england!

Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Aston Villa

Fey wrote:I wonder what the most supported teams are in england!

as a proxy, on FF () there's a table for the highest scoring fans of each team, which gives the number of people who've put that team as the one they support. this is how the PL looks:

1.Man Utd
2.Liverpool
3.Arsenal
4.Chelsea
5.Spurs
6.Newcastle
7.Villa
8.Everton
9.WHam
10.Man City
11.Fulham
12.Sunderland
13.Hull
14.Portsmouth
15.Blackburn
16.Boro
17.Stoke
18.Bolton
19.West Brom
20.Wigan

Of course, this includes fans worldwide, and most outside England only pick one of the top 4 (to give a comparison there are 8133 Wigan fans there, and 517477 Man Utd fans!). But it looks similar to how I'd have guessed it. Hull perhaps look a bit high, but it is a big place!

That's a bloody good list actually. Although agree on the international point. I'd imagine there are more Spurs fans in England than Chelsea fans for instance but aside from that I'd say that list is reasonably accurate.

Surely Leeds has more supporters then lets say Wigan. They should do one of all the teams, not only EPL. And dont let the people in Singapore vote!

If Leeds were an EPL team they'd probably be somewhere between 5th and 7th on that list.

Fulham above Sunderland
I imagine its those americans we've retained.

Wonder how many Celtic would get given Nakamura.

Manchester United
Spurrrrrrzzz
Leeds
Nottingham Forest

We should just do it on European cup winners

Liverpool
Man United
Notts Forest
& Aston Villa.

Allez les rouges wrote:Manchester United
Spurrrrrrzzz
Leeds
Nottingham Forest

Why Leeds?

Leeds are awesome! Probably my second favourite English club!