Joke club Leeds United at it again

[Walton]

Facts Not Fiction

The Official Population Of Mighty Leeds - 715,404 - 73,021 Burnley Population a 10th of Leeds
Last Five Championship Season Average - 26,152 - 14,490 Burnley Average Last 5 Championship seasons
Crowd As Percentage of Population Leeds - 3.67% - 19.85% Burnley Crowds 5 x Larger Per head of Population
Crowd as a percentage of ground capacity 69% - 66% Burnley

Even If you want to add The population that Burnley FC pull from un opposed by another football Club by including Pendle
It's only around 170,000 and including shares of Great Harwood, Accrington & Rossendale West Yorkshire you could raise it to 250.000 still would make the crowds against populous around 6% against Leeds 3.67%

Though you'd then have to look At Football Clubs competing for their Support
Bradford & Huddersfield to the West Sharing a lot of people
Virtually un opposed to the North East & South (York, Hull & Doncaster miles away & two are minnows)

To the East of Burnley Bradford and Huddersfield but hardly any population OH & MIGHTY LEEDS
To the South Manchester Utd, Manchester City, 2 of the biggest richest Clubs in the World
To the West Bolton, Blackburn Rovers & Preston Etc
Further to the West Liverpool & Everton
To the North of Pendle Very sparsely populated and if you look at Skipton for example, it's Yorkshire and Leeds have at least as big a pull.

If You do the exercise, that sets Burnleys territory At 250,000, for Leeds too, then they would be heading for way way over a million people and they'd be heading for 2% against Burnleys 6% of attending populous that they command.

Get real Pal

You've clearly not spent much time in Leeds if all you have are a load of cobbled together figures rather than real life experience of the city.

Leeds is absolutely mad about football.

[BleedingClaret]

You've clearly not spent much time in Leeds if all you have are a load of cobbled together figures rather than real life experience of the city.

Leeds is absolutely mad about football.

Cobbled Together from Official Figures with a little mathematics.
Your original post said they support their club, statistics don't back that up.
I think it's the pure arrogance that gets peoples backs up.
They are hardly a Newcastle

[bobinho]

Where are they on match day? Where is the football mad city on match day?

Just the one question, answered with fact not opinion will suffice. Leeds are well supported you say, well show me the facts. 3% of the populus ISN'T by any stretch of the imagination, "football mad" is it?

I sometimes spend time in Leeds, and like ALL cities, I see shirts of all types being worn in the city centre - including their most hated "rivals", manure. The 8000 that regularly follow Leeds away may well be football and Leeds daft, but clearly the rest of them aren't. I get that some of your mates are football mad...some of mine are. But that in no way transposes itself to Bellend Rd every other Saturday.

My issue here is that Leeds are always made out to be special when support is discussed. They just aren't, that's all. I know we aren't, but I also know they aren't, cos the statistics back it up. I have mates who support Leeds, I meet up with them and go to the games (well, I did when we were in the championship) and they love Leeds like I love Burnley, but certainly no more so. Walking around banging your chest with a clenched fist chanting "leeds, leeds, leeds" means shag all to me. I support Burnley, so blowing smoke up another teams arse isn't for me. Burnley. Only Burnley. Too many "clarets" on here getting awfully precious about dirty leeds for my liking...

[Lauren12]

And even if they do take 8,000 here, there and everywhere, it's still shi-te. But some just don't seem to get it.