What club should I adopt as my favorite in the Premier League this year?

If it's just about managers, Ian Holloway ftw

otm. although he'll only be there for one more season, two at most, and then you're left supporting a team nicknamed after the most unimpressive of citrus fruits.

but this is only meant to be for this season anyway, right?

The issue with supporting teams like Blackpool is that if you're ever in Britain you'll feel somewhat obliged to actually go there.

The really nice places are too posh to have football teams though, and Thames Valley Royals never got off the drawing board.

Blackpool's okay Monday to Thursdays.

Struggling to equate "really nice" with "too posh" tbh.

I like Blackpool

Are you saying you root for them?

I root for the town not the football club

I like Blackpool but the weekends are pretty heavy going unless you avoid the Golden Mile or you like stag parties.

Just saying that if it's Richard Curtis Britain you're after, footy may not be the sport for you, even if Hugh Grant did tag along with Fulham last year.

I'd like to like Blackpool but it is the saddest place I've ever been, and I was in Hiroshima last year.

Posh has nothing to do with it, but if you're visiting the UK then going to Liverpool, Manchester or London for a football game is going to be a lot more fun then going to Blackburn or Wigan.

Just be glad Hull City were relegated

Also the poshest place in the Premiership currently has its best football team, dunno what that says about the theory.

if you're visiting the UK then going to Liverpool, Manchester or London for a football game is going to be a lot more fun then going to Blackburn or Wigan

also disagree with the many xposted point that blackpool are the least premiership of recent premiership clubs.

barnsley would probably take that one imo.

Hull's beautiful fuiud

Burnley, for that matter.

Obv. Hull City

if you're visiting the UK then going to Liverpool, Manchester or London for a football game is going to be a lot more fun then going to Blackburn or Wigan

If a pilgrimage might ever be a factor, might be worth picking a team with a good ground. Liverpool and Fulham are the best I've been to, but Everton looks great. I hated Newcastle, it was like watching from a mountain top.

Liverpools have a terrible ground wtf?

and i was in the kop

Bradford City are currently the least Premiership of all once-Premiership clubs. We'll be challenging them soon, though.

Bradford were still averaging 11,000 plus gates in League 2 last season. Respect very much due.

Wigan Athletic surely the least Premiership team of all? Barnsley, Bradford City, Burnley all have some kind of history to fall back on.

yeah I was pretty much going purely on league position there - 17,000-20,000 in League One isn't bad either mind!

would not describe Reading as being very Premiership either but fair fucks to 'em

Always sit in or beside the away fans is the way to do it xp

To the original poster; which team are you closest to, geographically?

^ i think i see what he's up to here

Blackpool is the closest Premier League team to America! (if that's where the original poster is from).

Closer than Liverpool?

Or Everton? Possibly?

(Not sure where Blackpool's ground is, but the town is about 1/20th of a degree further west than Liverpool; and Goodison is slightly to the west of Anfield too...)

xp

If only Cardiff City had made it to the Premiership, there'd be no contest

On this map anyway. Perhaps not very scientific.

http://www.ascothotel.co.uk/images/blackpoolukmap.jpg

If we're going to do this properly then we'll need to find Bloomfield Rd/Anfield and Goodison on Google Maps or such like.

Anfield and Goodison:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r142/cslgap07/AnfieldnGoodison.jpg

http://www.nsno.co.uk/e107_plugins/autogallery/Gallery/NSNO%20Gallery/1.Goodison%20Park/pv_Google_Earth_view_of_Goodison_and_Anfield.jpg

The curvature of the earth means you come in from the north-west, so Blackpool it is

Could conceivably be Newcastle, come to think

^^^has nothing on Nottingham (xposts)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3365894769_484552ab20.jpg

Aren't the Dundee clubs on opposite sides of the same street?

I don't think anyone would object to Newcastle, right? I voted Spurs because Spurs sound like they'd be fun to support but surely Newcastle is the judgement of ILX here.

only for lols at OP's expense, in fairness

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/united_kingdom/scotland/dundee_tannadice_park.jpg

:D

Aren't the Dundee clubs on opposite sides of the same street?

indeed they are:

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/united_kingdom/scotland/dundee_dens_park.jpg

o ffs why didn't it xpost me. :'(

Right, now to find a city where one ground is inside the other

Where one ground hovers above the other

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/images/TGSE00321_m.jpg