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)
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.
At the end of play on Boxing Day last year, Leicester City were top of the table on 38 points. Twelve months on Leicester have amassed just 17 points and sit 3 points and 2 places above the relegation zone.
Last season was a freak. Normal service has been resumed.
At the end of the day, two years ago, October 26th 2014, Geoffrey went to bed all excited. This time tomorrow I’ll have a big medal he said. I know exactly where I’ll keep it, up beside all my All Ireland Final programmes which I carefully noted who scored points, received yellow cards and who came on as subs. Geoffrey was meticulous that way and even gave the ref marks out of 10.
The next morning Geoffrey got the heebie jeebies and the only run he made was from under his blanket to the jacks and back again. Thankfully there was no programme for the marathon entries or Geoffrey would have got 0/10.
Don’t know what any of that has to do with the English Premier League 2016/17. Its the marathon running thread you should be posting such observations in.