Freaky Brit names. was RE: [thechat] Celtic vs Chelsea at Seattle en Espanol

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun Aug 8 17:59:45 CDT 2004


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On 8 Aug 2004, at 21:58, William Anderson wrote:

>>>> Aberdeen is pretty unique in Scottish football for
>>>> a) Only having one team in the city, so no sectarian split
>>>> b) Having an almost 1:1 mapping between living in the city and 
>>>> supporting the team.
>>>
>>> Eh?  Only 6 out of 12 teams in the SPL share location.
>> ie 3 out of the 4 cities (no, please don't tell me that Inverness is 
>> a city, although until the acrimonious merger a few years back, they 
>> also had 2).
>
> If Inverness is a city (and it is), then it's a city and it counts,

Nah, sorry. Just cos they were casting about for places to anoint at 
the Millennium.

> and coming out with weird stats like Aberdeen is the only city with a 
> team, and excluding like all the towns in Scotland which have one team 
> is a bit ... weird :)

Cities being the only places where multiple teams have the slightest 
*hope* of being viable. Besides, if you look at towns, you see places 
like Airdre/Coatbridge, which are really one extended conurbation, 
which also has two teams, split along a sectarian divide.

Everywhere else that's smaller has a local team that no-one cares 
enough about to make them viable, and buses going to Tim Park and 
Ibrox. Or the local team is a wannabe (usually) Rangers. Kilmarnock for 
example?

> Like there's hardly any cities in our country as it is, so odds of 
> going one way or t'other to the one team or multiple team in a city 
> thing is like duh :)

If it were just multiple teams, then fine. But it's multiple teams for 
sectarian reasons.

And I also note that you are ignoring my point (b).

Cheers
Martin
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