[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Everton is a borough of Liverpool, like Brooklyn is to New York, kinda. Smaller, yes.

While Liverpool borough has like half a million people, they'll draw from the greater Liverpool/Manchester area, which is home to millions more. It's one of the reasons why for a time in the 1990s the even smaller and even more run-down industrial wasteland of Bochum in the middle of the Ruhr area could support two Bundesliga teams (VfL Bochum and SpVgg Wattenscheid 09).

Thing is, philosophically, in Europe people go small and local for identification, while in the US everything always has to be bigger and more grandiose than it really is. Example: the CALIFORNIA Angels. Nobody in their right mind in America would have named the new New York NL team in 1962 the Queens Mets. In England, absolutely.

Over a third of the Prem teams play inside the M25 motorway encircling London, but their official club names (including a few currently outside the Prem but having played in the Prem in living memory) are these:

Arsenal FC
Brentford FC
Charlton Athletic FC
Chelsea FC
Crystal Palace FC
Fulham FC
Queens Park Rangers FC
Tottenham Hotspur FC
West Ham United FC
Wimbledon FC (defunct)

Mentions of London: zero. They'll rather remain named after a building that burned down in 1936 and was not replaced than be associated with London.

I'd never thought about there wasn't a team named after London. That is different.

I'd always thought each starter on a team was paid millions a year. If teams are so crowded, stadiums so small, have I overestimated how much player make in the PL?

And what about my offsides ? & the one about the red cards?