Re: If Cardiff had had two football league sides, would football have become much bigger in the city?
I think it would have just diluted an already diluted and generally fair weather fan base.
Likes of Newcastle and Leeds have done alright from being one city clubs.
I don't really buy the rugby argument, not these days anyway, think I've known almost as many people who regularly go to the devil's as much as those that regularly attend rugby matches for any club.
Think it's as basic as we have never had sustained success. The kind of longer term success that generations of fans buy into and get a hold of. I don't mean we had to have consistently won things but being a top division club would have changed the plastic fan dynamic.
Re: If Cardiff had had two football league sides, would football have become much bigger in the city?
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Eric the Half a Bee
A while ago there was an interesting thread, even if it lacked comments, about how the history of Welsh football could have been different had there been a Welsh league that all Welsh teams competed in from the beginning.
Skip to Glasgow, and despite them playing each other at least 4 times a year, there seems to be no love lost between Celtic and Rangers. Indeed, the interest and desire to win is as strong as it has probably ever been and shows no sign of diminishing.
In the thread I mentioned, someone brought up what might happen had we had two football league teams in Cardiff. While we'd probably have been the smallest city to have had this, it probably wouldn't have been beyond the realms of possibility.
So, how would it have worked out? Cardiff City vs Cardiff xx? North vs south? West vs East? Would that rivalry have spurred on both sides and made Cardiff more of a football city? Would they have detracted from each other and resulted in two crap sides? Who knows, but it's an interesting hypothetical question.
:hehe: as if :hehe:
Re: If Cardiff had had two football league sides, would football have become much bigger in the city?
Forest, despite having another team literally next door, were getting similar crowds to us in the 2010’s despite being European champions 30 years prior and FA Cup and League Cup champions 20 years prior.
Newcastle and Sunderland are hugely supported. ~50k crowds regularly without winning a trophy in 70 years and 30k+ crowds in League One respectively.
Stoke is a 2 team city with a fairly average interest in football and Leeds is a 1 team city with a very big interest in football.
In reverse, Reading is a 1 team city with a largely apathetic football population whereas Sheffield is a 2 team city that’s football mad.
Re: If Cardiff had had two football league sides, would football have become much bigger in the city?
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Canton Kev
Forest, despite having another team literally next door, were getting similar crowds to us in the 2010’s despite being European champions 30 years prior and FA Cup and League Cup champions 20 years prior.
Newcastle and Sunderland are hugely supported. ~50k crowds regularly without winning a trophy in 70 years and 30k+ crowds in League One respectively.
Stoke is a 2 team city with a fairly average interest in football and Leeds is a 1 team city with a very big interest in football.
In reverse, Reading is a 1 team city with a largely apathetic football population whereas Sheffield is a 2 team city that’s football mad.
Being pedantic, Reading isn’t a City
