We’ve all seen the type of blog comments I’m aiming this at. They’re usual derisory comments following rumours of a player moving from one club to another. Why would player X leave massive club Y to join little club Z?

In Aston Villa’s case, you might want to point them to the all time Premiership table which currently looks like this:-

But hey, points are all well and good, but it’s silverware we all love. In that case, check out this graphic from the excellent billsportsmaps.com

Of course, if anyone points out that the titles aren’t exactly contemporary it might be time to make a sharp exit and hope that Martin O’Neill takes us to Wembley soon!!

Actually, that’s probably the best thing to do in the first place as the type of person who wishes to instigate an argument about the relative sizes of football clubs are unlikely to let a little thing like facts influence their position.