boots60 Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 According to the painstaking reasearch by the good people of the university of Bath the top 5 UK greatest sporting cities are 1 Leicester 2 Manchester 3 London 4 Liverpool 5 Leeds So there you have it. Proof of what we have all known for years.
Fox92 Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 What do they consider in the research? Football, Cricket and Rugby?
Darkon84 Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 2 minutes ago, Fox92 said: What do they consider in the research? Football, Cricket and Rugby? We're current Basketball champions aren't we? We usually have a decent Hockey team too. Then we can claim Loughborough for the athletics as it's still in the shire, so overall yea, we aren't bad at all!
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 Pleasing to see this http://www.itv.com/news/central/2016-08-23/leicester-named-as-greatest-sporting-city-in-the-uk/
foxy boxing Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 we've been the greatest for a while now not just football but rugby and basketball, hopefully the cricket will pick up but in speedway were pretty useless
Wymsey Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 Bet Birmingham wasn't far off these with West Brom, Villa and Birmingham FC. Though they are all dross so suppose not.
Corky Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 8 hours ago, Fox92 said: What do they consider in the research? Football, Cricket and Rugby? We've had top level champions in the past 20 years in football, rugby, cricket, basketball and snooker.
Fox92 Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 Just now, Corky said: We've had top level champions in the past 20 years in football, rugby, cricket, basketball and snooker. I know. Just wondered which sports they consider. I wasn't comparing Cities.
ScouseFox Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 5 minutes ago, Corky said: We've had top level champions in the past 20 years in football, rugby, cricket, basketball and snooker. and hockey surely? an as someone else said if we're counting Loughborough we can pretend we are kings of swimming an athletics n the like surely.
Webbo Posted 23 August 2016 Posted 23 August 2016 12 minutes ago, ScouseFox said: and hockey surely? an as someone else said if we're counting Loughborough we can pretend we are kings of swimming an athletics n the like surely. We? Stop basking in our glory scouser.
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