Cities that would be better with one football team?
A random thought this. IMHO there are quite a few medium size cities with 2 football teams for no good reason. Wouldn't they be better merging?
I'm thinking of
Sheffield- Wednesday and United
Bristol- City and Rovers
Nottingham- Forest and County
And in Scotland
Edinburgh- Hearts and Hibs
What do you guys think?
I'm thinking of
Sheffield- Wednesday and United
Bristol- City and Rovers
Nottingham- Forest and County
And in Scotland
Edinburgh- Hearts and Hibs
What do you guys think?
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Definitely Bristol. Can't see Rovers ever amounting to much. And I can't believe that City have never been in the Premier League. The fans would go spare, though.
If you are talking Scotland, what about the two Dundee clubs? There grounds are about two inches's away from each other!
Good point.
To be fair, I don't know that much about Scottish football.
Sheffield fc isn't in Sheffield.
What does this mean? What is a good reason?
What is the criteria for allowing two in one city then
A better logic would be maybe to say that by combining resources they would be better off financially, a stronger team with twice the supporters (if half don't get pissed off).
The Rivalry is all we have !!! We City are the only real club the gas are almost non league
They seem pretty safe now, to me. Unlike City, I'm afraid. With the catchment area available to City, their non-performance in recent years has been a joke.
YES please?
Sheffield urban population 650000
Nottingham urban population 825000
Not really medium sized cities and no reason for them to need only 1 club.
Apart from a few seasons in the old first division by Bristol City, many of them before the first world war, the Bristol clubs have underperformed, especially Rovers.
There are some small towns which have two non league sides, but I would disagree with the OP, I am against sides amalgamating, many of them have long histories and it would be hard to support a new team which is partly made up from your detested rivals.
Similar situation in Liverpool.
You could throw a sweet wrapper out of Goodison Park & it could land in Anfield, so close are the grounds.
The Dundee grounds are ridiculously close though.
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I believe Forest and County are the closest after the Dundee clubs.
Just no:eek:they got a draw today Dundee:(. I thought we would have beaten them as always
Years ago Dundee FC wanted to change their name to Dundee City as there was a constant reference to Dundee United as Dundee as well especially South of the Border
Firstly, your figure for Nottingham is WAY highside. The real figure is 666,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom
Secondly, it depends what you class as 'large'. For example
London Urban area has 8.2 million people.
West Midlands 2.3 Million
Greater Manchester 2.2 Million
Glasgow 1.1 Million
Those are what I call large cities, and each has 2 or more top flight clubs
Interestingly Tyneside, 880,000 people, has only one club.
Split them
Newcastle United and Newcastle City
Mike Ashley will buy City too
Newcastle only has one professional club.
Gateshead has their own.
Nottingham Forrest is not in Nottingham:)
A better example would be Stoke and Port Vale