All-Time Span of Success

[Gary James]

I post this every year, here's the latest Span of Success table for English clubs (follow the link):

The Span of Success: Will This Change This Month?

Every year, once the domestic season ends I update the table showing the English clubs’ span of success – i.e. the number of years between a club’s first major success (FA Cup, Le…

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This could change yet with Arsenal, Villa and Palace all hopeful of trophy success. Villa could shoot to the top of the table. Even if Arsenal do win a trophy they can’t get anywhere near City’s span of trophy success - yet they’re the ones who claim history over us!

 

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Leeds is mad, only 24 years span!

 

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Leeds is mad, only 24 years span!

Until Don Revie got Leeds promoted in 1964, they’d spent more of their history in the second tier (20 seasons) than the first (19 seasons), had never finished above 8th in the top flight, had only once got as far as the QF of the FA Cup and were just some club from a city that wasn’t big on football. For a one club city, they’d only once had a season’s average attendance above 30k by the time Revie got then promoted… City had 26 average attendences of 30k+ by 1964.

Revie completely transformed Leeds as much as Clough did Derby or Forest. After he got them promoted to the top flight, he had then finish 2nd 2nd 4th 4th 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd and 1st between 1965-1974. That was the highest average finishing position in a ten year period for any English team ever, at the time.

But then they were completely mismanaged by their board and, as we saw, spent decades outside the top flight. Their span of success is seen as just 24 years due to this.

 

[Gary James]

Until Don Revie got Leeds promoted in 1964, they’d spent more of their history in the second tier (20 seasons) than the first (19 seasons), had never finished above 8th in the top flight, had only once got as far as the QF of the FA Cup and were just some club from a city that wasn’t big on football. For a one club city, they’d only once had a season’s average attendance above 30k by the time Revie got then promoted… City had 26 average attendences of 30k+ by 1964.

Revie completely transformed Leeds as much as Clough did Derby or Forest. After he got them promoted to the top flight, he had then finish 2nd 2nd 4th 4th 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd and 1st between 1965-1974. That was the highest average finishing position in a ten year period for any English team ever, at the time.

But then they were completely mismanaged by their board and, as we saw, spent decades outside the top flight. Their span of success is seen as just 24 years due to this.

It depends on where you live and who you work with often, but I've known quite a few Leeds fans over the years. Bizarrely in the last decade they seem to have become obsessed with City's fans and 'buying success'. They are convinced they've 'always been a bigger club than City' and that our attendances are small compared to theirs.I've given up trying to put them right.