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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