John has withdrawn from tonight’s show.
That Nolito is a pure fanny.
Is the Man City “project” the biggest ever waste of money in the history of soccer ???
It’s up there, but probably more wasted on the Man U post Sir Alex project.
I’d love to see Hull get a result here.
Just realised Silva was playing there, a pass the buck merchant if there ever was one.
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Its a little harsh to put clubs with the tradition of Stoke and West Brom, two of the founder members of the football league on that list. Hard to disagree with any of the rest of them.
Your point about the demographics of the top flight is bang on. Think its 13 of the largest 20 cities in England and Wales that have no representative in the EPL, including in their number a lot of big traditional clubs - Birmingham (2), Leeds (3), Bristol (4) Sheffield (7), Cardiff (8), Bradford (11), Coventry (12), Nottingham (13), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (15), Brighton (17), Derby (18), Plymouth (19) and Wolverhampton (20)
Jesus that’s some list of shitholes. The UK really is a swamp outside of London.
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What does the number in brackets represent?
Shithole ranking
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Stoke on Trent is nr 1.
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Burnley?
Size of the city per head of population. People in Eire largely don’t really grasp the size of the UK. UK has 100 cities with populations of over 100,000. Eire has two. The likes of Derby has a population of around 270,000 and is 50% bigger than Cork. Carlisle is bigger than Limerick. Kilkenny amusingly is a city in Eire.
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Stoke is worse.
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Before the Famine we had a population of half of Great Britain.
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Very interesting, because I was about to pull you and say no way is Leeds third and Newcastle 15 in size or population.
Partitionist.
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Here’s the population figures from the last UK census
- London – 8,615,246
- Birmingham – 1,224,136
- Glasgow – 801,198
- Leeds – 761,481
- Bristol – 617,280
- Liverpool – 552,267
- Manchester – 520,739
- Sheffield – 518,090
- Edinburgh – 482,005
- Cardiff – 447,287
- Leicester – 443,760
- Stoke-on-Trent – 372,775
- Bradford – 349,561
- Coventry – 325,949
- Nottingham – 315,862
- Kingston-upon-Hull – 314,018
- Belfast – 295,223
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne – 282,442
- Sunderland – 275,506
- Brighton – 273,369
- Derby – 270,468
- Plymouth – 261,384
- Wolverhampton – 254,726
- Southampton – 253,651
- Swansea – 240,332
- Salford – 239,019
- Portsmouth – 238,137
- Milton Keynes – 229,941
- Aberdeen – 227,130
- Reading – 218,705
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Some goal by Borini today.
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