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  • The Critic Magazine

    NICK TIMOTHY

    Oct 28, 2021 3 minutes

    MY BROTHER ONCE PROPOSED a simple but radical rule change for English football: any club from a place where rugby league is more popular than football should face automatic relegation from the Premier League. The proposal, I admit, was inspired by partisanship: it followed an especially disappointing Aston Villa performance at Wigan Athletic, a team that, ridiculous as it now sounds, spent eight seasons in the Premier League between 2005 and 2013 and even won the FA Cup.

    Football fans will recognise the sentiment behind the , and clubs that are no such thing. Not many fans like Liverpool and Manchester United, but they accept that they are Proper Clubs. Not many fans like Manchester City, but City are disliked more because they are not deemed a Proper Club. Their success is bought, their history is limited.

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