Wot? No footy threads?

[Yorick]

Originally Posted by Jasper

I had the unfortunate experience of having to ride my motorcycle through Manningham on Sunday.

I used to have to go visit Paddyx in Withernsea

[Jasper]

Originally Posted by Yorick

I used to have to go visit Paddyx in Withernsea

hmmmm, Withernsea, not the nicest seaside town in East Yorkshire

[dodgy]

Originally Posted by Merv24

I'm sure that some report said it was the 5th biggest not to have a Premiership team with Bristol being the biggest however they could have course massaged the statistics.

"Premiership" is meaningless though, isn't it? It's only been in existence 16 years

"Top flight" is a better comparator - Bristol City were, of course, in the old Div 1 in the 70s and probably earlier, and Rovers were as well earlier than that I think

All the papers keep saying Hull was the biggest city in Europe never to have had a top-flight football team in their respective leagues. I dunno what it is now in Europe, or here tbh. Plymouth? Milton Keynes?

[Doc]

Originally Posted by dodgy

"Premiership" is meaningless though, isn't it? It's only been in existence 16 years

"Top flight" is a better comparator - Bristol City were, of course, in the old Div 1 in the 70s and probably earlier, and Rovers were as well earlier than that I think

All the papers keep saying Hull was the biggest city in Europe never to have had a top-flight football team in their respective leagues. I dunno what it is now in Europe, or here tbh. Plymouth? Milton Keynes?

It's now Plymouth, I think.


And Yoz, would you rather lump Hull into 'Humberside' and leave Yorkshire with no Premier league team?

Hull is now officially Yorkshire's top team.*





*excluding 'boro which the Yorkshire post seems to think is in North Yorks.

[Yorick]

Originally Posted by Doc

And Yoz, would you rather lump Hull into 'Humberside' and leave Yorkshire with no Premier league team?

Hull is now officially Yorkshire's top team.*
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The mighty Bradford managed 2 seasons in the Premiership - let's see how long Hull last

[Doc]

Originally Posted by Yorick

The mighty Bradford managed 2 seasons in the Premiership - let's see how long Hull last

Relegated by Christmas is my estimate.

Just remind me, where are the mighty Bantams now?

[DefTrap]

What's the smallest city to have a 'top flight' team? England/Europe/World ..

[moto748]

All these small town in Brittany seem to have First Div teams in France. Lorient. It's like Dawlish being in the Premiership. Guingamp is the one I was actually thinking off, but they've been relegated now.


And Bruges get into the Champions League and it's only a small town (in Belgium).

[Merv24]

Originally Posted by DefTrap

What's the smallest city to have a 'top flight' team? England/Europe/World ..

I would hazard a guess at Gretna having been there and it is tiny.

[Bonners]

Originally Posted by Merv24

I would hazard a guess at Gretna having been there and it is tiny.

Gretna is not a city though, same with the ones mentioned by Moto. Dont know myself, but I would like to know the answer.

[dodgy]

Originally Posted by Merv24

I would hazard a guess at Gretna having been there and it is tiny.

Non Mickey Mouse leagues only, please

Dunno about England. Some northern mill town or something, I would guess. Neither Burnley nor Accrington are very large, I don't think

Stoke is titchy (as in Stoke only, not Hanley or Newcastle etc) but I'm not sure you can count that

[Bonners]

Originally Posted by dodgy

Non Mickey Mouse leagues only, please

Dunno about England. Some northern mill town or something, I would guess. Neither Burnley nor Accrington are very large, I don't think

Stoke is titchy (as in Stoke only, not Hanley or Newcastle etc) but I'm not sure you can count that

Since when has Stoke been a city? A good candidate for a quarantine zone I grant you, but still no city.