Sky have done a list of where clubs are in the football league food chain based on their past 50 years. Sky Sports Ultimate League 2023/24: Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal and Tottenham in top four 1 Liverpool 2 Man Utd 3 Arsenal 4 Tottenham 5 Everton 6 Chelsea 7 Aston Villa 8 Man City 3 9 West Ham 10 Newcastle 11 Southampton 12 Leeds 13 Leicester 14 Norwich 15 Middlesbrough 16 Nott'm Forest 17 West Brom 18 Blackburn 19 Sunderland 20 Crystal Palace 21 Ipswich 22 QPR 23 Derby 24 Wolves 25 Coventry 26 Stoke 27 Birmingham 28 Watford 29 Sheff Weds 30 Sheff Utd 31 Charlton 32 Fulham 33 Bolton 34 Millwall 35 Burnley 36 Brighton 37 Portsmouth 38 Bristol City 39 Barnsley 40 Reading 41 Luton 42 Cardiff 43 Preston 44 Hull 45 Huddersfield 46 Swansea 47 Oldham 48 Brentford 49 Bournemouth 50 Wigan 51 Blackpool 52 Swindon 53 Plymouth 54 Rotherham 55 Notts County 56 Oxford United 57 Bradford 58 Bristol Rovers 59 MK Dons 60 Gillingham 61 Walsall 62 Peterborough 63 Port Vale 64 Shrewsbury 64 Tranmere 66 Grimsby 67 Leyton Orient 68 Southend 69 Crewe 70 Carlisle 71 Colchester 72 Doncaster 73 Chesterfield 74 Cambridge 75 Northampton 76 Scunthorpe 77 Stevenage 78 Wrexham 79 Exeter 80 Lincoln 81 Mansfield 82 Stockport 83 Rochdale 84 Hartlepool 85 Newport (post-89/90) 86 Wycombe 87 York 88 Torquay 89 Yeovil 90 Barnet 91 Cheltenham 92 AFC Wimbledon 93 Morecambe 94 Burton 95 Accrington (post-68/69) 96 Crawley 97 Fleetwood Sure it will cause a lot of discussion and arguments! About right for us - not been outside the top 2 division save for 2 seasons since the late 70s.
The list obviously only accounts for league finishes and doesn't take anything else in to consideration but there aren't any major surprises. MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon probably the two interesting names on that list. MK Dons heavily skewed in favour of Wimbledon's successes / league finishes. AFC Wimbledon rank pretty high given their age too. Shows how quickly they've risen.
Can't be right the skates are a MASSSSSSIVE club, sleeping giants, biggest on the south coast, you couldn't understand it scummer it's about pashoooon, this table would have them as a perennial lower league side so is clearly wrong
Oh ffs I talked to a random Southampton fan in Canada barely 24 hrs ago and the first thing I thought of when he brought up Portsmouth was this ****ing board and skates. I stopped him before he even started. This is diabolical. I glance at 2 threads every 2 months.
i feel bolton would of been a few places higher if it wasn't for our almost going out of business for the club not long ago.
Main thing i would call out is how can MK Dons be anywhere other than the bottom couple? They weren't even a club for 30 of the last 50 years and have spent the majority of them in the bottom 2 leagues.
