If Hull win...

[surrey jim]

where would the largest town/city be which has never had a top flight team??

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Worcester?

 

[RM-Taylor]

Dudley in Staffordshire is the correct answer.

List of towns and cities in England by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Zesh Rehman]

yes they would be, its been mentioned in the papers for weeks now

 

[surrey jim]

i came up with wakefield, jus a guess tho

 

[surrey jim]

Dudley in Staffordshire is the correct answer.

List of towns and cities in England by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[jonny.rainbow]

argest UK cities
Cities, towns & districts Population Males (% of total)
London 7,074,265 49.12
Birmingham 1,020,589 49.42
Leeds 726,939 49.43
Glasgow 616,430 47.73
Sheffield 530,375 49.73
Bradford 483,422 49.32
Liverpool 467,995 48.80
Edinburgh 448,850 48.29
Manchester 430,818 49.33
Bristol 399,633 49.59
Kirklees 388,807 49.17
Fife 349,300 48.44
Wirral 329,179 47.89
North Lanarkshire 325,940 48.58
Wakefield 317,342 49.53
Cardiff 315,040 49.09
Dudley 312,194 49.62
Wigan 309,786 49.50
East Riding 308,689 48.87
South Lanarkshire 307,450 48.37
Coventry 306,503 49.43
Belfast 297,300 n/a
Leicester 294,830 49.64
Sunderland 294,261 48.79
Sandwell 292,196 49.09
Doncaster 291,

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Used the wikipedia link and it came up with this:

Dudley is a large town in the West Midlands, England,

Therefore the actual answer is York.

Just noted you were asking for town not city, but that's the answer for city anyway.

 

[dougdeep]

How can North Lanarkshire be a city?

 

[surrey jim]

Used the wikipedia link and it came up with this:

Dudley is a large town in the West Midlands, England,

Therefore the actual answer is York.

have York NEVER been top flight

 

[Everest]

Used the wikipedia link and it came up with this:

Dudley is a large town in the West Midlands, England,

Therefore the actual answer is York.

Just noted you were asking for town not city, but that's the answer for city anyway.

But it also says Brighton is a town

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Also, Hull is the biggest in Europe not have their football team in the top division of their respective league.

So which European city/town will now take over this distinction if Hull get promoted?

 

[surrey jim]

Also, Hull is the biggest in Europe not have their football team in the top division of their respective league.

So which European city/town will now take over this distinction if Hull get promoted?

this makes the task harder

 

[Strike]

have York NEVER been top flight

From Wikipedia

York City F.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

York City Football Club is an English football club based in York. The club participates in the Conference National, the fifth tier of English football. Founded in 1922, they joined the Football League in 1929, and have spent most of their history in the lower divisions. The club briefly rose as high as the second tier of English football, spending two seasons in the Second Division in the 1970s. At the end of the 2003–04 season the club lost their League status when they were relegated from the Third Division, and have since remained in the Conference.

 

[Statto]

Also, Hull is the biggest in Europe not have their football team in the top division of their respective league.

So which European city/town will now take over this distinction if Hull get promoted?

Plymouth.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Another pedant writes ...


Dudley has never been in Staffordshire. It was in Worcestershire. But detached from the rest of Worcestershire. Entirely surrounded by Staffordshire, but never in Staffordshire.

 

[ExmouthExile]

Plymouth.

I also remember reading somewhere that it was Plymouth

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Likewise, have also read Plymouth.

Those population lists on the internet aren't usually much use, they tend to include entire metropolitan areas rather than the bit you'd conventionally know as a town or city, thus places like Warrington come up very high.

Of the existing football league clubs, I'd imagine it to be Plymouth, while in the UK as a whole, there must be some egg chasing town somewhere that's never had a senior football club which is probably bigger.

 

[Foolg]

but isnt dudley more or less just birmingham?
other thing is that wiki link shows brighton on its own when the city is officially joined to hove, so it should be 251thousand leaving it much higher on the list

 

[surrey jim]

but isnt dudley more or less just birmingham?
other thing is that wiki link shows brighton on its own when the city is officially joined to hove, so it should be 251thousand leaving it much higher on the list

may depend when it was last 'measured' as in the 1991 cencus / 2001 cencus and how brighton was measured then