'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

sleeping giant, one of them dead ones

a pointy drunken Leeds fan once told me that the city is such an important financial sector that the EPL wouldn't allow them to be relegated.

looooooool

dutty, dutty Leeds

Someone told me Leeds is the biggest city in Europe that hosts only one football club.

Just mulling this one over trying to work out if it's true. All I've come up with so far is Marseille and Lyon (and I'm not 100% sure if they're bigger and only have one team).

I'd love that one to be debunked, but alas it is probably true.

Utrecht agglomerate has 500,000 inhabitants and only one pro club.

Fucking AMSTERDAM only has one pro club!

yr welcome

It's no Leeds tho

What happened to DWS Amsterdam?

Kazan only has one team iirc and a higher urban population. Leeds often claims a higher population by counting surrounding areas though.

I could imagine some spurious counterarguement about greater catchment areas blah blah, watevs your DIV 2, dutty Leeds losers!

fans from the heavy woollen district and Calder Valley are traitorous scum and don't count.

Lol Tom u old. DWS quit being pro in '72 iirc.

You'll need to have some love outside your town to have a decent fan base. From the relatively short time I lived around those parts I know there's just no love for Leeds once you pass the name sign.

Used to be a local piss-take about Birmingham City being the club from the biggest city in Europe that's never won fuck all of worth but that's a bit abstruse

marseilles has a larger pop than leeds (850 thou in 2010 to 700 thou today)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Football_clubs_in_Marseille

Lol Tom u old. DWS quit being pro in '72 iirc.

I'm afraid a childhood full of Rothmans Football Yearbooks has left me with a extensive knowledge of obscure football teams form every corner of Europe.

Much respect. They actually played a QF EU cup in 1970 or so iirc. A lot of pro clubs disappeared in those years bcz money

LBI that's not true, used to be loads of dutty Leeds fans in Hull before City made the top flight

the netflix show MARSEILLE is (among other things) abt the dirty politics surrounding the potential sale of stadium to developers, it stars gerard depardieu in a fat suit, it is LIT

when I was a kid I used to spend hours poring over old Rothmans books. Ahh the pre-internet days eh?

Leeds, villa, arsenal and spurs all reasonable second teams to support here in my youth

Chelsea no, man city no, Burnley no, Everton no

Naples, Marseille, Makhachkala, Ekaterinburg, Palermo, Nizhny Novgorod?

Leeds can't claim surrounding catchment area otherwise they'd have to include their teams as well!

I can't be arsed looking up but is the programme cancelled this weekend or what

Looks like Zaporizhia dont even have a football club

oh, they do, never mind,

LBI that's not true, used to be loads of dutty Leeds fans in Hull before City made the top flight

― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Saturday, March 3, 2018 1:29 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I stand corrected.

fans from the heavy woollen district and Calder Valley are traitorous scum and don't count.

thats claret and blue country out in the valley

Essen?

As well as Rothman's does anybody remember those little Littlewoods's or Setters almanacs?

I've seen traces of White terror in the Halifax/Burnley borderlands before, but not deep into Burnley country. But this was 10 years ago, possibly their sphere of influence isn't quite what it used to be.

Zetters, fucking spellcheck

How far down the A62 does it stretch, Dewsbury? Ive always thought the spilt milk flowed North, East and South but never west

Oh plenty of those in Batley, Ossett, Dewsbury. Hudds having their training ground in Heckmondwike in the Herbert Chapman days and into the 50's left a legacy of Town fans that is still going quite strong. It is probably a 50/50 split in some places.

based on the exact science of observing car stickers of course!

Burnley go 2-1 up

Shambolic defending w/ six Everton players in the six yards box

Williams sent off for hitting Barnes. No protests either.

Will never forget my man gbx for letting me know about Reddit streams what a hero

Poch out

:D

Someone told me Leeds is the biggest city in Europe that hosts only one football club.

Oops many XP’s while underground. Soz.

Son chooses to pass to aurier after beating six men

Son out

We look good. Better intent in final third.

Hi quality co-commentary-

"He looks like he could be out a while"

Reference to fourth official injury

Where's Mooy?

Crowdsourcing a new fourth official over the tannoy is novel.

Son has started this like a sublimely skilled express train.

Disgusting dive from Pritchard there #spursdna

Yeah son has had a few indifferent games but he and alli both look superb so far

Spurs looking good indeed. Love Son and Dembele.

Shame you've got that twat Alli.