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    1. Big six in my view is based on revenue, spending power and the sly/greedy 6 who tried to leave for the super league.
      I wouldn’t take issue with it, we know they are disproportionately covered in the media.

    2. javaisupdating on

      Yes BBC, it will exist as long as you and all the other lazy journos fill your websites with clickbait shite like this.

    3. I find it interesting that the very existence of the article answers the question that the headline is posing.

    4. Spurs could get relegated, man u could get no european football for 10 years and they’d still refer to them as the big 6. Its a culture, that culture wont change until they change the pundits reporting on it and a new era is brought it of new teams consistantly hitting that top 6.

    5. It’s the branding that needs to change. The “big 6” are really the “revenue 6”. There’s a different big 6 if you choose a different category. Whether it’s history, or trophies won, Villa would be in that “big 6”. It’s utter codswallop.

    6. Character-Key7538 on

      Why would they give us our flowers? We’ve had one adequately positive result in the league and battered a poor Turkish side.

      People begging for publicity when we’d just over analyse it regardless. Go read Tanswells article if you’re that desperate.

    7. I’m not sure what’s happened by the quality of journalism at the BBC has dropped to an all time low.

      For me it used to be the most reliable source of information, with articles being often informative and non-biased. But for the past 10 years, the amount of slop, and unjournalistic articles has risen ten fold.

    8. Tea__and__crumpets on

      The disappointing thing is that they don’t go into detail of which teams have been filling the gap – only mention this year and minor comments of us and a few others (us included). Just another article about the “big six” and all the problems they have.

    9. Honestly who cares what the bbc has to say anyway, if they wrote a sharticle and said we were the best team that’s ever graced the game, would that make it so?

    10. Specific-Program2927 on

      Jesus Christ. The BBC doing the free advertising and shill work here. “Don’t forget everyone, there are fake plastic teams that are rich that you can glory hunt for”

    11. Can people try to shake off the persecution complex please? Half of this shit is written by kids on internships.