London Teams?

London Clubs

QPR
Millwall
Fulham
Charlton Athletic
Crystal Palace

 

Hendon, Enfield, Leyton Pennant, Hampton & Richmond Borough, Barnet, Harrow Borough, Bishop's Storford, Borehamwood, Aylesbury, Hayes, Kingstonian, Wimbledon AFC, Purfleet, Stevenage, Gravesend & Norfleet, are some non league teams I can think of in greater London

 

Watford? Why noy include Norwich, Darlington and Dundee Utd while your at it?

 

Lets limit it. Anything within the M25 is fair game. After all, Londoners believe you need a passport to go pas the M25 into that foreign land that is the rest of the country...

 

Watford are on the London underground system. Even if it does take about 4 hours to get there.

 

Passport?
Nah, not a passport mate--braces, wellys and a love for sheep

 

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Don't forget your black pudding,ya southern softie!!!

 

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Thats hilarious.

Lets just include League teams in this, ie the first four divisions.

So we got;


Arsenal, Brentford, Charlton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Leyton Orient, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur, Watford, West Ham, Wimbledon (not for long)

And until recently, Barnet.

I've heard it said that London has more League clubs than any other city in any other country in their respective Leagues. Anyone care to substantiate that? (or make sense of it?)

 

Nots surprising, really. London is the biggest city in the UK.

Still, cant organise the building of a piddlin new stadium.

Why am I surprised?

 

With all these teams, where do they play? Is there literally a playing ground on every single block?

 

LOL! No. London is just very, very big.

 

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In 'Always look on the bright side of life.' Eric Idle said "So what if your team lost 11-0 to Barnet". Also, 'Barnet' is Cockney rhyming slang for hair (Barnet fair).

 

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I'd be very surprised if London has more league clubs than Buenos Aires (or Rio, or Sao Paulo). But its gotta be close.

 

Out of all da London teams we all know who is da best. Crystal Palace

 

How many places are there to play basketball in the New York metro area? Not counting small high school gyms, I mean. I'll bet it's at least 2 dozen, with the pro teams, the college teams, etc.

 

Yeah, they're so great that they couldn't find playing time for a player who is good enough to start in and win a game in the knockout round of the World Cup. That's a deep team!!

 

At least the London clubs don't dominate the league. Look at Greece, Turkey, and Russia to see the top 3 or 4 teams all hailing from the capital.

 

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There was a thread about this very subject and I believe Rio de Janeiro (or was it Buenos Aires) had the most 'professional' clubs within city limits.

It's a shame about Barnet. And it doesn't look like the Bees are returning to Nationwide next season.

 

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Buenos Aires has 36 teams (stadiums?) but I'm pretty sure they aren't all professional, certainly not full-time professional anyway. Virtually no other league makes a distinctions of full/part time teams the way England does, with a division where every single club above a certain line (in England's case Div 3 or higher) being full-time.

 

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BA must have the most in their country's top flight. Looking at the last championship table..

Independiente
Boca
River
Velez
Racing
(5 of the top 6)
Arsenal (think they are BA)
San Lorenzo
Lanus
Banfield
(9 of the top 12)
Olimpo

Dont you love these virtually meaningless, but entertaining discussions?

 

Mcnitro3000 was, as we say in England, 'taking the pis5'. He is a Man U fan. Crystal Palace rather hilariously beat Liverpool in the FA Cup. Liverpool and Man U hate each other. That is why he said that Crystal Palace are the best London team.

As for the 'most clubs in a city' argument, which city's clubs out of London and BA actually pay their players on time?

Bloody amateur Argies!

 

But only one of them pays their players - the NY Knicks. (Well, I take that back. No doubt some HS and college kids are getting under the table $)

 

Ah, but if you consider how big London is, you would have to include the New Jersey Nets, who are just a 15 minute bus ride from Manhattan. And college teams in NY are just as big as the lower division clubs in London. Sure, they're not professional, but they get a comparable level of media attention and fan support.