{"id":189034,"date":"2010-01-16T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T02:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1047119"},"modified":"2010-01-16T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T02:40:18","slug":"what-does-this-say-about-sporting-prowess-by-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/189034","title":{"rendered":"What does this say about sporting prowess by region?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Forgive me, I know little about sport and Football in particular, but I was struck by this chart I saw somewhere and wondered what forummers thought of it:<br \/>\n<font size=\"5\"><b><br \/>\nPREMIERSHIP ONLY<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>BY MET COUNTY &amp; OTHER:<\/i><br \/>\n<b>GREATER LONDON<\/b> 5<br \/>\nChelsea, Fulham, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham<br \/>\n<b>GREATER MANCHESTER<\/b> 4<br \/>\nMan Utd, Man City, Wigan, Bolton<br \/>\n<b>WEST MIDLANDS<\/b> 3<br \/>\nAston Villa, Birmingham, Wolves<br \/>\n<b>MERSEYSIDE<\/b> 2<br \/>\nLiverpool, Everton<br \/>\n<b>TYNE &amp; WEAR<\/b> 1<br \/>\nSunderland<br \/>\n<b>WEST YORKS<\/b> 0<br \/>\n<b>SOUTH YORKS<\/b> 0<br \/>\n<b>OTHERS<\/b> 5<br \/>\nStoke, Blackburn, Burnley, Hull, Portsmouth<\/p>\n<p>BY REGION:<br \/>\n<b>NORTH WEST<\/b> 8<br \/>\n<b>LONDON\/SE<\/b> 6<br \/>\n<b>MIDLANDS<\/b> 4<br \/>\n<b>NORTH EAST<\/b> 1<br \/>\n<b>YORKS\/HUMBER<\/b> 1<br \/>\n<b>EAST<\/b> 0<br \/>\n<b>SOUTH WEST<\/b> 0<\/p>\n<p><b><font size=\"5\">PREMIERSHIP PLUS LEAGUE 1<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>BY MET COUNTY &amp; OTHER:<\/i><br \/>\n<b>GREATER LONDON<\/b> 9<br \/>\nChelsea, Fulham, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham, Leyton Orient, Brentford, Millwall, Charlton<br \/>\n<b>GREATER MANCHESTER<\/b> 6<br \/>\nMan Utd, Man City, Wigan, Bolton, Stockport, Oldham<br \/>\n<b>WEST MIDLANDS<\/b> 4<br \/>\nAston Villa, Birmingham, Wolves, Walsall<br \/>\n<b>MERSEYSIDE<\/b> 3<br \/>\nLiverpool, Everton, Tranmere<br \/>\n<b>WEST YORKS<\/b> 2<br \/>\nLeeds United, Huddersfield<br \/>\n<b>TYNE &amp; WEAR<\/b> 1<br \/>\nSunderland<br \/>\n<b>SOUTH YORKS<\/b> 0<br \/>\n<b>OTHER<\/b> 20<br \/>\nStoke, Blackburn, Burnley, Hull, Portsmouth, Norwich, Colchester, Swindon, MK Dons, Bristol Rovers, Hartlepool, Southampton, Southend, Exeter, Yeovil<br \/>\nCarlisle, Brighton, Gillingham, Wycombe<\/p>\n<p><i>BY REGION<\/i><br \/>\n<b>LONDON\/SE<\/b> 15<br \/>\n<b>NORTH WEST<\/b> 12<br \/>\n<b>MIDLANDS<\/b> 6<br \/>\n<b>SOUTH WEST<\/b> 4<br \/>\n<b>YORKS\/ HUMBER<\/b> 3<br \/>\n<b>EAST<\/b> 3<br \/>\n<b>NORTH EAST<\/b> 2<\/p>\n<p>\nDoesn&#8217;t mean much to me other than North West teams seem to be enjoying a period of batting above their weight and for some reason the North East teams are having a hard time of it this season, but wondered if you forummers might wanna comment??<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me, I know little about sport and Football in particular, but I was struck by this chart I saw somewhere and wondered what forummers thought of it: PREMIERSHIP ONLY BY MET COUNTY &amp; OTHER: GREATER LONDON 5 Chelsea, Fulham, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham GREATER MANCHESTER 4 Man Utd, Man City, Wigan, Bolton WEST MIDLANDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}