The heading of this blog is actually taken from a post(link here) which I would say was the very reason I wrote this blog.
The post went like this
Where are your clubs fans actually from? This is shocking, or not so shocking depending on your views.
The list below shows the percentage of fans who support the club who live within a local postcode.
No prizes for guessing which club are at the bottom of the table.
1. Wigan Athletic: 64.7%
2. Norwich City: 60.8%
3. Southampton: 51.2%
4. Reading: 49.4%
5. Swansea City: 47.6%
6. Stoke City: 46.1%
7. Aston Villa: 37.4%
8. Newcastle: 35.3%
9. Fulham: 33.8%
10. West Bromwich Albion: 29.4%
11. Sunderland: 24%
12. Queens Park Rangers: 23.4%
13. West Ham United: 23.2%
14. Everton: 19.3%
15. Arsenal: 14.4%
16. Tottenham Hotspur: 14.4%
17. Manchester City: 13.2%
18. Chelsea: 12.5%
19. Liverpool: 10.5%
20. Manchester United: 8.6%
End of post.
Are we really shocked to see that list? The pun in the post if you have noticed though is the line that goes
"No prizes for guessing which club are at the bottom of the table"
This would partially take me back to my previous blog on the best supported clubs in the Europe(Link here) and we'll do some math with it.
So from that list the clubs in the EPL and based on these two posts the approx number of supporters in each of the local zip codes would be a product of the total supporters multiplied by the % of supporters in the local zip-code.
So lets begin.
1) Manchester United : 354M x 8.6% = 30.44M
2) Chelsea : 135M x 12.5% = 16.8M
3) Arsenal : 113M x 14.4% = 16.27M
4) Liverpool : 71M x 10.5% = 7.51M
5) Manchester City =18Mx13.2% = 2.38M
6) Tottenham : 11M x 14.4% = 1.58M
7) Newcastle United = 6M x 35.3% = 2.18M
Something tells me either one or both of these numbers don't look right and considering the numbers are right the pun gets negated. The club right at the bottom of one list is now sitting right at the top of another.
By the way ManCity fans - I hope that number is not true.
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