Is Bristol the least successful English footballing city?

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Originally Posted by lardy

Has anyone considered including Penarth, Barry, or even Caerphilly, when calculating Cardiff's population?

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Yes - the Office for Nstional Statistics. Penarth, Dinas Powis, Caerphilly and Pontypridd are all part of Cardiff Urban Area as they are contiguous with Cardiff. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Urban_Area

Barry is not included as there are gaos between Sully and Dinas Powis and Penarth.

“Urban Area” is a sensible metric for calculating the size of a city. “Conurbation” is a related term which means roughly the same. “Metro Area” refers to the wider hinterland; Cardiff’s Metro Area includes Barry, all of the central valleys and towns like Merthyr and Aberdare, and in some people’s view, Newport and the eastern valleys.

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Originally Posted by Baloo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Urban_Area

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Cheers mate, surprised no one mentioned it.

Can we all just agree that ukcities.co.uk is the worst link ever posted on ccmb?

If we're talking cities with more than one Football League club, then the article has to be right surely, it comes down to a choice between Bristol and Stoke, with the former getting my vote because of the amount of time Stoke City have spent in the old First Division and the Premier League.

When I was a kid, I'm sure the answer would have been Bradford because they had two sides who always seemed to be in Division Four - for now though, it's Bristol as far as I'm concerned.

Ladybird Book of Balls page 8 -

"If Ben were only happy when his favourite team did well, he would not be happy very often.

Instead Ben is happy whenever a team he hates does badly.

There are lots and lots of them."

Unfortunately our Capital of Wales Club has underperformed for many years considering it’s potential and fan base of 1.5 million. Very comparable with Manchester and Liverpool who have TWO top Premiership clubs each?

May aswell include penarth really, there isn’t even a gap and it’s only 3 miles from the city centre whereas some suburbs are double that. Cardiff’s population will be pushing 400k soon I hear from a mate in the council. So many houses being built around the city or in pipeline.

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Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird

http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...td-and-arsenal

Bristol City 37th
Cardiff City 44th
Swansea City 50th

Average league position over many years.

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I don't doubt that. However, given the relative size of Bristol and Cardiff it's hardly good reading for Bristol.