Aston Villa have won more top-flight titles than both Tottenham and Manchester City and their single European Cup puts them above Spurs, City and Arsenal in the continental pecking order.
Leeds’ three league titles is one more than Spurs have won and though they fell short in the 1975 European Cup Final, they claimed the Inter-city Fairs Cup twice.
Never mind Project Big Picture and the self-appointed ‘Big Six’. Here were two of English football’s most evocative names going at it hammer and tongs in their first Premier League meeting since February 2004.