Not sure who is winning so far but AF's article from 1925 was pretty damn good.
... to answer OPs question ... there are only two possible answers:
a) People who are jealous and admit it.
b) People who are jealous but don't want to admit it.
I am in group A.
Look at it this way: Over the last twenty years or so which I can remember (most pre-10 years old stuff is kind of a blur aside from crying a lot on Cup Final day) I've seen one FA Cup win, one CL kind of qualification, a few nice moments, losing out on the only viable plan for improving our future (KD), a far less appealing stadium argument, a lot of very horrible near relegation seasons, and a whole lot of insane nonsense I won't bother typing out but it's in the board thread.
What if in another twenty years I was saying: Over the last twenty years or so I've seen six league titles, a bunch of domestic Cups, two CL titles, an owner who doesn't respect our history, new glory hunting fans who embarrass me, and a couple of players whom I truly did not like (despite the success they brought).
Isn't that just a similar situation of good/bad with some higher highs? It's pretty unlikely you're going to have super success and none of the negatives that come with that. Just seems like either way there is stuff that makes me angry ... why not take some titles too?
Doesn't really matter if one is "better" than the other ... I've had 20 odd years one way and I wouldn't mind giving the other way a shot. After 20 years of that we can sit back and fairly compare the two methods. Kind of like the Moyes stuff really: I liked him and he may well turn out to have been better than anyone else but it's fun and interesting to see what it's like on the other side of the fence (even if it turns out to be not as good).
LOL ... "nouveau riche" ... it baffles me anyone continues to use that phrase. There used to be hundreds of millions of people and maybe a hundred kings -- now there are billions of people and (according to Marco down below) 1,426 kings. Some of us sit in cubicles instead of working the fields or monging up some iron (although billions still work for pennies) but the basic system is effectively identical to how it has almost always been. What does it matter to me if some "high born" has all the money or some "nouveau riche" ex-mobster? It's a fairly meaningless distinction in so far as the impact of having so much wealth consolidated among so few is really the same no matter if it's old or new money.
... and yes I am jealous of both the nouveau riche and old money equally and would love to be a part of either group despite their vulgarity.
Support a club that is actually for sale?
Oh no it won't. Obviously they probably wouldn't be title contenders but unless the owners liquidate all the assets prior to leaving they'd still be in better shape than us for quite some time after the billionaires left. Chelsea (who are debt free now remember) could sell many of their top players and have a 100-200m war chest AND they have more money coming in from their stadium and CL. Unless the old/new owner was just out to take money from the club (and that is bad for any club it's hardly unique to them) they should be able to transition fairly easily from a top-3 side to a top-6 side.
I wouldn't want to do it every time but I'd give it a shot as a one-off to say I have.
-- and then a few posts later someone says literally not a single Evertonian in this thread is reasonable (I guess he didn't bother reading their own thread ... or he doesn't agree that City is the right team to have won the lottery?). 
