Biggest city without top football team?

[shoreham moonraker]

or Gloucester?

 

[Notters]

it seems to depend on what you count 'wakefield' as

so it's either wakefield or plymouth basically

Plymouth is about 4.8 million times the size of Wakefield!

 

[shoreham moonraker]

have cambridge been in the top flight?

 

[Notters]

have cambridge been in the top flight?

my bathroom's bigger than Cambridge.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

but has your bathroom got city status?

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

have cambridge been in the top flight?

yes... for one season I believe...like Oxford

 

[Notters]

My car's bigger than Gloucester! What's going to be suggested next, Denton?!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Oxford had a couple of seasons in the top division in the 1980s. They were sponsored by Wang Computers!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Plymouth is about 4.8 million times the size of Wakefield!

City of Wakefield- 321,600

Plymouth- 250,700

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Leeds

 

[Albion Rob]

see what you've done there

Don't think Brighton is a particularly big city, is it? Only about 160,000 people. Obviously when you add Hove it becomes a lot bigger.

 

[Notters]

Don't think Brighton is a particularly big city, is it? Only about 160,000 people. Obviously when you add Hove it becomes a lot bigger.

You have to go by conurbation population as figures for cities rely on arbitrary boundaries. Brighton urban area = 461,000 people

 

[Notters]

City of Wakefield- 321,600

Plymouth- 250,700

Balls.

 

[The Large One]

yes... for one season I believe...like Oxford

Nope. Got close under John Beck.

 

[Gwylan]

City of Wakefield- 321,600

Plymouth- 250,700

Yes, that's true

But that's including the likes of Pontefract, Castleford etc as part of Wakefield.

I think that in this case, we should consider the city proper, not the size of the council area.

 

[Gwylan]

You have to go by conurbation population as figures for cities rely on arbitrary boundaries. Brighton urban area = 461,000 people

Blimey, that would make us one of the biggest cities in England - we're not even close

According to the Office of National Statistics:


Population of Brighton 155,919
Population of Brighton and Hove 206,628
Population of Brighton and Hove council area 247,817

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Yes, that's true

But that's including the likes of Pontefract, Castleford etc as part of Wakefield.

I think that in this case, we should consider the city proper, not the size of the council area.

yep

like i said, if you count "city of wakefield" as a city, then it's that- if you don't then it's plymouth

 

[Acker79]

I remember a few years back when we played them there was something in one of the newspaper reports about Plymouth being the largest city outside of Hull never to have hosted top flight football.

The city doesn't become larger with more people in it, it just becomes more crowded/populated. So 'largest city' will not be affected by population.

 

[drew]

Don't think Brighton is a particularly big city, is it? Only about 160,000 people. Obviously when you add Hove it becomes a lot bigger.

Brighton is not a city!!!!

 

[strings]

Littlehampton?