Which English town or city is most poorly represented on the football pitch?

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I suppose in the light of recent events, maybe Exeter (pop: c.100000) comes off pretty poorly. The whole of the SW is a bit underrepresented. Gloucester. Does Gloucester even have a football team?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

durham
wakefield
st helens

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and warrington

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

To be honest, I only ever thought of St Helens as a rugby team. So it's actually a town?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, its the perineum between Manchester and Liverpool, according to one Anthony H. Wilson.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Bath. Bloody egg carriers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yea, its a sizeable industrial town, (same deal with warrington)

lancaster and barrow are possible choices (though of course barrow used to have a league team).

i think in terms of town size without recent league representation it will probably be eitehr st helens or warrington though, maybe wakefield. (doncaster and halifax keep yo-yoing i guess)

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(The converse q. is also worth asking; I sometimes find myself wondering, are there more Scousers playing league football, at various teams throughout the country, than people from any other area?)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Milton Keynes doesn't have a proper football team, does it Barry?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Considering it's 6 or 7 times bigger than anywhere else, I suppose London doesn't do too well.

I suppose this question could be settled by science, if someone had the energy. Don't know whether you'd use average aggregate gate size or a league position points system to arrive at the numerator.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Bristol. Two shite sides (Rovers struggling to stay in the league at all last season, City "comfortably mid-table" in Div 2), population 400,000 in City Of Bristol alone, not counting those bits of S Glos etc that people who live in them consider to be 'Bristol'. (which could add another 50,000 easily)

Bath. 170,000 people and only a non-league side to show for it (one that's bottom of the Doc Martens at that). The closest they came to league football was when The Gas were lodging there.

Swindon. Town might have been successful in the past, but 180,000 people expect more than Div 2 football.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The answer is South west Greater London. From Crystal Palace in the east round to Fulham and Brentford in the North there is not a single professional football club. Roughly 2 million people, I reckon.

Of course, there used to be a football club, but we all know about that.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm, Leeds?

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The biggest city in England never to have had a representative in the top flight = Hull

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Kent only has the Gills to show for itself.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

And no professional teams in Cornwall

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the county of Surrey has no football league team - at the mo. Although most supporters in Surrey support London teams such as Crystal Palace or Chelsea, though in places like Guildford there is growing support for Portsmouth.

Just south of Surrey, is East Sussex another county with no football league team, there is a sizeable support for Portsmouth in places like Chichester.

Portsmouth have plans for a new stadium to eventually reach 35,000 - with Portsmouth and places like Havant/ Fareham/ Gosport/ Waterlooville and parts of Surrey and East Sussex in the extended catchment area, Portsmouth will become the premier club South of London interms of Ground capacity and supporter base.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i meant west sussex

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

They'll have to get some executive boxes for the Guildford lot.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

DJ Martian, do you mean to make it sound like the Third Reich?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No just to demonstrate that Portsmouth has a bigger catchment compared to those Stripey Red n White types down the road.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

in many ways it is.

x-post

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing more exciting than provincial rivalry. Morbo!

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Also there is more pompey support on the Isle of White, and while we at it, I reckon we should stake a claim on Jersey.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

also extend the support into Berkshire, there is only Reading there - you know lets take Bracknell.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

there was talk pre-milton keynes of franchise moving to Crawley/ Gatwick area.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

East Sussex has Brighton & Hove Albion. Or is that West Sussex?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Capture Gatwick and the world is yours.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sheffield seem under-represented at the highest level. And Belfast.

Gloucester people can go to Cheltenham, which is only inches away.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, already corrected all my references relate to West Sussex.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Brighton is East Sussex, they are looking for a new ground developments to.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Harrogate (150,000) should have a single league team but because of local rivalry they'd prefer to have two teams (Railway and Town) who'll amble along in the lower leagues.

For their size it's surprising how poor the two Welsh teams, Swansea and Cardiff have performed.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent plan, dastoor - Gatwick captured - lets install a Pompey club shop there. Blue Army.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Leeds, third biggest city in England could be playing against Rotherham next year.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

prediction, Hull City will be major force in 5-10 years time.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the town/ area that is overpresented in terms of stadium, Darlington with 27/28, 000 ground - what was Reynolds thinking? a stadium half the size would have adequate even taking in his ambitions of 1st division football.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

how many of the teams with "and" in their name were 2 teams which combined and how many were like that from the beginning?

Rushden & Diamonds
Dagenham & Redbridge
Havant & Waterlooville

ect ect...

Cabbage (back) to thread - he'd know I'm sure.

of the former, It is interesting to speculate how many would've survived/done well if they'd stayed separate.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Harrogate (150,000) should have a single league team but because of local rivalry they'd prefer to have two teams (Railway and Town) who'll amble along in the lower leagues.

Dundee (OK not in England) also has a similar sized population and has two teams in the same STREET!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bath (& N.E. Somerset)
169,040

Birmingham
977,087

Bradford
467,665

Bristol
380,615

Cambridge
108,863

Chester
118,210

Derby
221,708

Leeds
715,402

Leicester
279,921

Liverpool
439,473

London (Greater)
7,172,091

London (Inner)
2,766,114

Manchester
392,819

Newcastle-upon-Tyne
259,536

Northampton
194,458

Norwich
121,550

Nottingham
266,988

Oxford
134,248

Sheffield
513,234

Southampton
217,445

York
181,094

Looking at it, Yorkshire is hitting way, way below its weight, esp. these days.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the current conference table

1 Chester 30 39 63
2 Hereford United 29 30 55
3 Barnet 29 12 52
4 Aldershot 29 11 52
5 Shrewsbury 27 16 48
6 Exeter City 30 8 48
7 Morecambe 30 1 47
8 Accrington 29 10 45
9 Woking 29 11 44
10 Stevenage 29 4 42
11 Dag and Red 30 8 41
12 Burton Albion 28 5 39
13 Telford 26 8 38
14 Halifax Town 29 -11 37
15 Scarborough 27 -1 33
16 Gravesend & N 29 -10 33
17 Forest Green 29 -16 33
18 Margate 29 -12 30
19 Tamworth 29 -20 29
20 Farnborough 30 -15 26
21 Leigh RMI 29 -35 22
22 Northwich 30 -43 12

which catchment areas of these clubs most deserve football league places?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

what strange figures? are they catchment areas rather than city sizes? i'm wondering why bradford is bigger than liverpool and manchester in those figures, and why leeds is bigger than manchester and leicester put together

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevenage - massive gap between Luton and Cambridge

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Greater Manchester is almost a million, I think, but the town itself is small.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The daggers are formed from about seven clubs iirc, one of them being Walthamstow Victoria (who later went on to become my fiance)

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

those are plain city/town population figures.

obviously, Greater Manchester is much bigger. There are other borough council areas such as salford, oldham etc

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Those figures are a bit whack, I admit. They are for the relevant unitary authorities.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The fact that chris appears to be engaged to a football team does not surprise me at all :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Dundee is a good shout!

Rushden and Diamonds merged in 1992 with the intention of establishing another Northampton based professional football team (and succeeded).

Dagenham & Redbridge is more Dagenham incorporating some smaller fry in a less successful attempt at establishing league status.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post so yeah - just checked and definitely for the unitary authority, not just the town (though in some cases there's barely a difference, with Leeds there's a huge one).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember chris kamara in the 90s mentioning that bradford is the 8th biggest city in the UK.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Barnet obv.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to keep talking about Dundee, but I know bugger all about English football and this isn't worth its own thread.

Mentalist close stadia alert!!!
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.wynne/na/denstannadice.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to say that I would not call Leeds the third biggest city in England.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

it does look like chester city that actually play in two countries will be back in the football league, plus ofcourse one other club in the play off scramble, there seems to be many clubs still involved in this.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose with Harrogate a lot of the population support the bigger more glamorous Leeds. Let's face it someone from Dundee is not going to make the effort to go and support St Johnstone.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's because they all support Celtic or Rangers. Which is why Dundee are in administration (that and they aren't as successful as their next door neighbours)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/features/facts/index.shtml

Leeds is the second largest metropolitan district in the UK; extending 15 miles from east to west, and 13 miles from north to south. This wide boundary contains some 562 square kilometres - of which two thirds is Green Belt - affording some of the most beautiful scenery in Yorkshire.

According to the data, the population of Leeds is 715,404 - malking it the third biggest city in the UK after London and Birmingham.

Lets recap

UK
Biggest - London
2nd - Birmingham
3rd - Leeds
4th - Glasgow

confirmed by this graph on Glasgow City council's website
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/html/about/facts/facts0~3.htm

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought it was
1 - London
2 - Birmingham
3 - Manchester
4 - Glasgow

Leeds somewhere down a bit from Sheffield. When did it get so darn big?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

My list has no basis in fact, it is just what my brain has always thunk.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

as mentioned upthread, the city council for Manchester is just part of "Greater Manchester", that is made up of other council areas - that are crucial for population stats.

remember, Manchester City fans chanting there is only one team in Manchester. Manchester United are in the Borough of Trafford.

http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/ten-towns.html
The Ten Townships of Greater Manchester

Bolton
Bury
Manchester
Oldham
Rochdale
Salford
Stockport
Tameside
Trafford
Wigan

>> tameside, salford are the two boroughs without football league clubs.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

salford is de facto part of manchester though, oldham is distinct?

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought that Manyoo were in Salford - hence the city fans calling them Salford Rangers

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure DJ Martian (and Glasgow City Council's) figures are again not the generally accepted figures for the cities themselves rather than a wider council area, but I'm too busy too check it out now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the correkt answer to this is Westminster.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Tafford = Manchester United
http://www.trafford.gov.uk/about/default.asp

Although Salford the neighbouring borough, is also well known as the Red / Man utd fanbase.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

in the UK population stats are defined by "council area", as that who collects the data: electoral rolls, and census data is chopped up/ analysed by using the council map areas/ boundaries.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread could also be called who will win the Herod Cup?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

oldham and salford are both distinct and separate from Manchester, although part of the wider Greater Manchester.

Salford is itself a city, and has it's own city council
http://www.salford.gov.uk/living/yourcom/salfordlife/aboutsalford.htm

Oldham is a town, and has it owns council: that is a Metropolitan Borough
http://www.oldham.gov.uk

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the correkt answer to this is Westminster.

well, if you use *that* definition, the City of London doesn't have one!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Westminster has mo people though.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Michael Howard on the right wing?

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dame Shirley Porter as corrupt boss, gerrymandering support from adjoining cities.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

John Prescott in a holding role, in front of the back (clause) four.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Geoffrey Howe getting to the middle to find the captain's brokenm his bat. Oh, wrong sport.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Geoff Hoon being a useless cunt somewhere.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

like the england team, there is an unfortunate shortage of genuine leftwingers in westminster

― Guy Incognito, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Mandelson in the hole, being gay.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oxford*, there's United who're in the 3rd division, and City, don't even know where they are.

*I don't know anything about football.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

People who don't know about football confuse me. What do you do at the weekend?

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

United Wh'ore got relegated some time ago, I believe.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

They play badminton, Mikey.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit!

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

And then abuse kiddies.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

To a soundtrack of Dido.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

salford might well be a distinct entity from manchester. but i used the words, "de facto", its pretty much just part of manchester now isnt it?

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

stats, for no football league clubs:

the whole of surrey.......1059015
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/surrey.asp

the whole of west sussex .. 753612
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/west_sussex.asp

the whole of Warwickshire... 505885
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/Warwickshire.asp

Wakefield
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/wakefield.asp
population of council area: 315173

Dudley
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/dudley.asp
population of council area: 305164

Warrington
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/warrington_ua.asp
population of council area: 191084

St Helens
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/st_helens.asp
population of council area: 176845

Bath
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/bath_and_north_east_somerset_ua.asp.
population of council area: 169045

Basingstoke_and_Deane
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/basingstoke_and_deane.asp
152583

Harrogate
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/harrogate.asp
population of council area: 151339

Poole
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/poole_ua.asp
population of council area: 138299

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The local paper said that no town of Southport's size was so badly represented: mid-table in the Unibond Premier. I think this is exacerbated by the number of Liverpool footballers past and present that live in the town (Steven Gerrard nowadays, half the team living down the same road in the nineties, centred around Dalglish).

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

some interesting stats:

Largest Towns [& Cities] without a Football League Team

http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/FootballTeams/FootballTeamsTable6.htm

Town Population Status
1 Dudley 194,919 Town
2 Poole 144,800 Town
3 Oxford 143,016 City
4 Telford 138,241 Town
5 York 137,505 City
6 Slough 126,276 Town
7 Gloucester 123,205 City
8 Newport 116,143 City
9 Cambridge 113,442 City
10 Exeter 106,772 City
11 Eastbourne 106,562 Town
12 Sutton Coldfield 105,452 Town
13 St. Helens 102,629 Town
14 Crawley 100,547 Town

The table has been compiled using the 2001 Census publication Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Table KS01 ( released 17 June 2004).

also

Towns with Teams in the Premiership & Football League 2006-7
http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/FootballTeams/FootballTeamsTable5.htm
ranked by population

The table has been compiled using the 2001 Census publication Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Table KS01 ( released 17 June 2004).

also:

the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_cities_by_population

This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population. The populations are 2001 census figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), using the Key Statistics for Urban Areas figures, that attempt to divorce the populations of towns and cities from the Local Authority district(s) that they are contained within

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

funny how with London the no. of teams doesn't increase as you look further down the league. guess it's just that there's so much more chance of London teams being well funded as well as well supported.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

If Hull get promoted to the premiership next week Plymouth will take over the mantle of being the biggest town never to have a team in the top flight. I think that's the case anyway.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

If Hull get promoted to the Premiership DJ Martian will have been uncannily correct in two predictions on this thread. Presuming we can now say with a straight face that Portsmouth are the premier club south of London, which I suppose we can.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)

Conversely I wonder if there are any villages punching higher above their weight than Burscough? (Tiny village up the road from me, Conference North, mixing it with the likes of Worcester, Stalybrbridge and Barrow)

― Matt, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

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Rushed and Diamonds. Irthlingborough has pretty much the same population as Burscough.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

ta, I've often wondered

― Matt, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:34 (seventeen years ago)

But Rushden is much bigger.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

Worcester will be moving to the Blue Square South (Conference South) next season.

Histon in Cambridgeshire play in the Blue Square (Conference) - Histon play in Impington. Both these villages geographically merge together.

Population
4,450 (Histon)
4,090 (Impington)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histon

― djmartian, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

largest city / town in wales represented outside the football league - Newport County (Blue Square South) have just appointed Dean Holdsworth as their new manager.

― djmartian, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

Lovely Linsey Dawn McKenzie as totty cheerleader?

― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

Burscough! It has two railway stations too.

I knew an old fella from Burscough - an acquaintance of my schoolmate's refereeing dad. He hadn't seen him for some months so casually asked, "How's your wife, Sid?" "She's dead." "Oh, God, I'm sorry to hear that." "Don't be. Go to more footy matches wi' out 'er."

And that is what I know to be true about Burscough.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

That is pretty Burscough

― Matt, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

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