| Settle an argument 16:19 - Aug 16 with 1242 views | hype313 |
Someone I know has been saying Blackburn's PL win was the same as Leicester's, I'm not having that, Blackburn finished 2nd and 4th in the previous two seasons having won it, and also benefitted from Walkers millions, I can't equate the two.
But said person isn't having it, he thinks both were on an even keel. |  |
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| Settle an argument on 16:24 - Aug 16 with 1191 views | Vic |
Leicester's was streets ahead of Blackburn's.
Neither compare to Town's. |  |
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| Settle an argument on 16:28 - Aug 16 with 1158 views | blueislander |
Leicester benefitted from the Thai guys millions. Premier League was very different when Blackburn won it. Very few non-British players. Our winning the First Division was off the charts. |  | | |
| Settle an argument on 16:29 - Aug 16 with 1151 views | clive_baker |
While I wouldn't go as far as saying Blackburn 'bought the title', certainly not like Chelsea did under Abramovic, they did spend more than any other side in the window before the 94/95 season.
Leicester was a different proposition altogether. None of their notable players were big money, Mahrez, Vardy, Simpson, KS, Morgan, Drinkwater etc. They only became big players because of their achievement. |  |
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| Settle an argument on 16:51 - Aug 16 with 1032 views | Steve_M |
Blackburn sent a shed load of money when other teams weren't, they were even able to outspend the top five or six in the early years of the Premier. It was still a notable achievement but the stratification of the top division that made Leicester's win truly remarkable hadn't happened in 1995.
Without Jack Walker, Blackburn would have been mid-table in the second division at best, as indeed they are again now, but I don't think the Premier League title was resented because he was very clearly a fan. It was a little different when they were buying a player every other week trying to get up in 91-92 - buying Duncan Shearer to curtail Swindon's season grated at the time in terms of fairness. |  |
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| Settle an argument on 16:52 - Aug 16 with 1014 views | WD19 |
What you need is the betting odds. I would imagine Blackburn were about 5/1 the year they won it. Leicester were not. |  | | |
| Settle an argument on 16:53 - Aug 16 with 1010 views | bluebudgie |
Both brought the title, Leicester really should have been penalised over financial irregularities over the then-Walkers stadium and consequently, wouldn't have been in the position to win the league. but agree nobody can match Town's achievement of being champions of England after only 17 full seasons in the football league, that achievement rarely gets the praise and plaudits it merits. |  | | |
| Settle an argument on 16:54 - Aug 16 with 1009 views | HighgateBlue |
You're self-evidently right.
Blackburn had already been seriously competitive in a league which had a bigger diversity of teams competing than is generally the case now. They came 2nd the previous season for goodness' sake.
They plainly spent a lot of money and bought some very expensive players. I'm not sure British clubs had paid more than was paid for either Shearer or Sutton by Blackburn at the time of their transfers. Nothing remotely similar can be said about Leicester.
And Blackburn had a manager who'd won three titles in the previous decade. And 2 FA cups. None of that was true of Leicester's marvellous and infectious boss.
Leicester's was out of the blue, on a comparatively small budget with a manager who had not won the league in the UK before (and I don't think he'd won it in any other country either).
Each team has only won it only once in the Premier League era. Neither had a huge ground. And they both wear a bit of blue. That's where the similarities end. |  | | |
| Settle an argument on 16:56 - Aug 16 with 998 views | jayessess |
It was widely acknowledged at the time that moneybags Blackburn had bought the league.
Leicester also benefited from substantial additional investment, but it wasn't, relatively speaking, anywhere near as significant as what Blackburn got. |  |
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| Settle an argument on 16:57 - Aug 16 with 984 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Settle an argument on 16:24 - Aug 16 by Vic |
Leicester's was streets ahead of Blackburn's.
Neither compare to Town's. |
Forest's was up there with ours as well |  |
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| Settle an argument on 16:59 - Aug 16 with 969 views | BigCommon |
Blackburn were amongst the favorites to win it..
Leicester were complete outsiders.
Leicester's achievement wins hands down, imo. |  | | |
| Settle an argument on 17:02 - Aug 16 with 950 views | hype313 |
| Settle an argument on 16:59 - Aug 16 by BigCommon |
Blackburn were amongst the favorites to win it..
Leicester were complete outsiders.
Leicester's achievement wins hands down, imo. |
Thanks all, I will screenshot this.
And try to find the odds of the respective teams, if Blackburn were 5/1 to win and Leicester were 5000/1 then that pretty much shuts him up. | |
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| Settle an argument on 17:50 - Aug 16 with 847 views | stonojnr |
| Settle an argument on 16:28 - Aug 16 by blueislander |
Leicester benefitted from the Thai guys millions. Premier League was very different when Blackburn won it. Very few non-British players. Our winning the First Division was off the charts. |
they did, but he didnt "buy" the league in that way, he could have carried on spending that much money and never seen Leicester achieve any major honours from it at all, it just all clicked that season for them.
whereas that was Jack Walkers whole ambition to just spend whatever it took to get Blackburn promoted to the Premiership and then win it, by getting the best players (and some guy from Narwich) and manager he could afford to go win the league, and once it had been done it kind of all was well thats done then cant afford to keep that up and it all went a bit south after that.
At least Leicester havent gone back to perennial lower table potential relegation candidates, they built some decent core strength to the structures there that have kept them going as a solid premiership team,and through great adversity too. | | | |
| Settle an argument on 18:54 - Aug 16 with 712 views | monty_radio |
| Settle an argument on 16:57 - Aug 16 by Lord_Lucan |
Forest's was up there with ours as well |
I think Forest's Title win, and their subsequent two European Cup wins are utterly without parallel.
But the barebones of Town's win reveal no £40K Peter Withe, no quarter of a million Shilton, nor a million pound Trevor Francis.
And Notts Forest had secured a manager who'd done it already with Derby.
Town were a bunch of never-had beens nor ever would be's, Crawford excepted.
Even admitting that. were I a Forest fan, I'd accept no equivalence with anything, there remains no parallel in the modern game for what we did. | |
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| Settle an argument on 18:59 - Aug 16 with 690 views | Vic |
| Settle an argument on 16:57 - Aug 16 by Lord_Lucan |
Forest's was up there with ours as well |
Shhh - never let it be said! (I actually th8nk that overall thier success during our heyday cp very favourably with ours. League wins, multiple European wins? They have the nod really don’t they! | |
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| Settle an argument on 18:59 - Aug 16 with 681 views | jayessess |
| Settle an argument on 17:50 - Aug 16 by stonojnr |
they did, but he didnt "buy" the league in that way, he could have carried on spending that much money and never seen Leicester achieve any major honours from it at all, it just all clicked that season for them.
whereas that was Jack Walkers whole ambition to just spend whatever it took to get Blackburn promoted to the Premiership and then win it, by getting the best players (and some guy from Narwich) and manager he could afford to go win the league, and once it had been done it kind of all was well thats done then cant afford to keep that up and it all went a bit south after that.
At least Leicester havent gone back to perennial lower table potential relegation candidates, they built some decent core strength to the structures there that have kept them going as a solid premiership team,and through great adversity too. |
In the 1990s, a local tycoon like Jack Walker could bankroll a Premier League winning football club. As time went on you needed to be considerably richer than that just to compete. | |
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| Settle an argument on 19:39 - Aug 16 with 610 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Settle an argument on 18:59 - Aug 16 by Vic |
Shhh - never let it be said! (I actually th8nk that overall thier success during our heyday cp very favourably with ours. League wins, multiple European wins? They have the nod really don’t they! |
Yes, like Monty said, I think they were unparalleled - although for the width of a fag paper it could have been us - especially if SBR hadn’t deemed Shilton an unnecessary expense.
Unbelievable keeper. | |
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