[sishow]

IN England with football it is easy to see that places like LOndon has many different professinal clubs with the massive population in the past and now. The same can be said of other citys like Birmingham, Liverpool, Greater Manchester area and the large conobations around Leeds, Bradford and Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesborough.

But it has always amazaed me that places the size of Stoke and Bristol can support 2 large (Maybe not in recent winning, but in die-hard support and away travelling fans!) pro football teams. Ok neither city has a top flight team at the moment, but for passion I would find it more difficult to look past these citys in terms of our national sport.

As for the other place with 2 pro teams, Nottingham, when I lived there the true locals used to say "People from Nottingham support County while outsiders follow Forrest." How true that is, I dont know. But when I used to go to forrest on my student tickets, the ground used to be more than half empty, and there were in the championship then.

As for sport as a whole, I have no idea. A lot of sport in the UK is regionalised. Schools in some areas play one sport when in the next county they play a completey diff sport. So while one city produces alot of rugby Union players for instance, the next city may produce large amounts of cricketers!

(N.B. To all non-UK bm's. There was a great question that used to be asked here........... "Name all the places outside London that have more than one pro Football (soccer) team?". The big citys used to be got quite easy, but the smaller ones was a stiggle for some.)