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You know that when they beat us in the 1988 League Cup final they were a first division team who only finished a few places below us? There’s this perception amongst kids ( ) that they’re minnows, historically that isn’t quite true. Never giants of the game, but I remember them in the first division.
Financial doping aside, the league hasn’t changed that much from the 70s and 80s. You had one team that tended to be dominant (back then it was Liverpool). You had contender teams like Forest, Everton etc and you also had teams that were punching above their weight. Watford had a bit of a run in the 1980s, Swansea did as well…challenged for the title in season after Villa won it