Only 30% of Premier League teams are in Leave-voting constituencies. That figure is 58% for sides in the Championship, and 75% in Leagues One and Two
SATURDAYS AT Gigg Lane stadium are not supposed to be quiet. Since 1885 residents of Bury, a market town of 190,000 people on Manchester’s northern fringe, have gathered at this lump of red brick and corrugated iron to watch their local team. Only ten football grounds anywhere are older. “The Shakers” have twice won the FA Cup, England’s top knockout competition. Last season they were promoted to the third division.
On the pub’s other screen is a live broadcast of Manchester City playing in the Premier League. Their 55,000-seater Etihad Stadium is only ten miles down the road. It is the centre-piece of the Etihad Campus, a complex that is half-an-hour’s walk from the city centre. The site cost about £200m to build, and includes another 7,000-seater arena for the academy and women’s team, a dozen training pitches, a hotel and a business school.
This is because England’s best clubs are in big cities. Of the Premier League’s 20 sides, 12 are in places with at least 300,000 inhabitants. London has five, Manchester and Liverpool two each, and Birmingham, Sheffield and Leicester one apiece. In contrast, only two of the 24 teams in League Two come from cities with at least 300,000 residents: Leyton Orient, in east London, and Bradford City.
Those in Leagues One and Two, however, have been left on the sidelines. With so many star-studded Premier League matches to watch on TV, football fans in Colombia, Nigeria and Japan have little reason to watch Grimsby play Scunthorpe. These cash-strapped teams also struggle to sign foreigners, thanks to strict rules about work permits. Among non-European players, only those who have appeared for their national team in at least 30% of matches in the previous two years are eligible for transfers.
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