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  1. littleDinosaurLuke

    littleDinosaurLuke Well-Known Member

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    The points are related PNP. In fact, they're exactly the same. London and Manchester are metropolitan counties now. If you want to make the pedantic point that Old Trafford is not in Manchester unless you put the word Greater in front, then the same applies to White Hart Lane and London.
     
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    London's a city. Greater London is a metropolitan county.
     
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  3. Rick O'Shea

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    Tottenham is an area of London.
     
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    I'm waiting for someone to disagree with this.
     
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  5. littleDinosaurLuke

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    Since 1965, there are two cities in London - City of London and City of Westminster. The rest are boroughs within the metropolitan county. Haringey is where Tottenham lies - within one of those boroughs.
     
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    City of Westminster's a borough of London, which is a city.
    Are you really trying to argue that London isn't a city?
     
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  7. littleDinosaurLuke

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    The difficulty now is that many major cities around the world have grown into metropolitan areas for administrative reasons. So when you look at lists of the largest cities, the whole conurbation is included when calculating population, geographical area etc. By this yardstick, the city is the whole metropolis - whether it's London or Manchester
     
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    ... on the outskirts of Manchester ....
     
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    No, not London.

    Which bit are you confused about?
     
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    Not at all. It reinforces my argument. I'm not arguing against the point. I see Tottenham, Wimbledon, even Twickenham as being in London. But for the same reason, I see Old Trafford as being in Manchester. I don't see how you make a distinction.
     
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  12. Brian Storm

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    But Newcastle came nowhere and they're the Greggs capital off the world. It's pastry hub. If it was based on greggs then Newcastle would win it without even needing a sports team <laugh>

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  13. Star of David Bardsley

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    I was going to suggest Sunderland should be in there as a joke just for the resident super proud Geordies/Mackems/no one cares but bizarrely it's that high up. Great survey.
     
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    I have always regarded anything with a N/S/W/E starting post code as London. No idea if that has any bearing. So Wimbeledon and Tottenham - London, Twickenham - not London.
     
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    I think it's cute how a supporter of a little club like QPR, runs about trying to stir up trouble between the big boys <laugh>
     
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  16. Star of David Bardsley

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    No plans to stir up trouble. I just find the mentality towards Sunderland and Newcastle of certain fans of theirs quite interesting/baffling.
     
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    Goes with all clubs <ok>
     
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  18. Star of David Bardsley

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    I find it to be a quite unique brand of delusion
     
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  19. Rick O'Shea

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    Explains why London derbies are so poor.
     
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