The Tigers top local supporter base list
In what might rate as the the least shocking poll ever conducted, the folks at Top Up TV have discovered that Manchester Utd have the lowest level of local support, with just one on five of their fans coming from Manchester.
While the majority of Red Devils in this country would get a nosebleed if they travelled further north than the Watford Gap, it appears that the club with the strongest local following are the Arsenal-bashers from Hull, with 88 per cent of fans coming from the region.
Here’s the survey results in full, where you’ll notice the big four languishing at the bottom of the table, or the ‘Spurs end’ as it is commonly known:
Hull City 88%
Stoke City 85%
Wigan Athletic 80%
Newcastle United 77%
Middlesbrough 76%
Aston Villa 73%
Fulham 73%
Sunderland 67%
West Bromwich Albion 67%
West Ham United 66%
Tottenham Hotspur 66%
Blackburn Rovers 65%
Manchester City 64%
Portsmouth 63%
Bolton Wanderers 57%
Everton 55%
Arsenal 53%
Chelsea 49%
Liverpool 22%
Manchester United 20%
Of course, Manchester Utd’s diminished local support merely gives testament to their huge global appeal, but it’s quite shocking to see Blackburn having just a 65 per cent supporter base. Did the rest not want to admit they were from Blackburn?
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5 responses so far
1 bruce thomas // Sep 30, 2008 at 3:04 pm
With 300 million fans Manchester would be a bit crowded if they all lived there. United have the most local fans and the most global fans. If you ‘load’ the question by expressing local fans as a percentage then you’ll get the answer you want. Of course Hull have the most local fans — they’ve got none anywhere else. Doh!
2 Luis // Sep 30, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Interesting…according to this poll (and with some grammatical maneuvering), not even a hundred percent of the people in Hull cheer their team.
Maybe they were the ones booing at the Geovanni goal last week.
3 andrew // Sep 30, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I’m actually surprised by the arsenal and chelsea numbers. I feel like they are about as popular state side if not more so then united
4 stephen carr // Oct 22, 2008 at 12:46 pm
The thing is, the top 5 teams are the only side in that city or town, so they would be expected to have the most ‘local support’.
5 ray kidd // Mar 1, 2009 at 9:45 am
Can,t believe Everton at 55% .Another survey stated Everton fans where the ones who used transport the least to get to the game.I think that says it all about having the majority of local fans.As for our red friends,that i can believe.