Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
There are no one-team cities of half a million people in the UK apart from Leeds.

Some sites quote misleading population figures based on metropolitan district populations (so some have Bradford over 500,000 but that includes a good few satellite towns).

Cardiff's population is around 340,000.

But with its bigger catchment area and capital city status it should be established in the Premier League regardless of city population.
Ye....I realise I was a bit generous on the half a million.

My point is , if we had gone out of business 12 or 13 years ago and had to reform in non-league, it'd be highly unlikely that we'd be much lower than we are at present, given the amount of money that would be invested in a club with the fanbase and catchment area we have. That's not me being arrogant , I just think it's the most logical outcome. We are not Halifax, Wrexham or Southend.

People can talk about Tan saving us, but there is a reasonable likelihood that had he not saved us , we would be in a similar or even better situation now.

We would be better in that we would likely have more supporter involvement. We'd more likely have a team and a style of football that we'd all like to see.