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View Poll Results: Which city is more powerful?
New York City 136 60.44%
London 89 39.56%
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Old 12-04-2014, 08:02 AM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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New York.
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Old 12-04-2014, 08:18 AM
 
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Welcome back "London Lawyer". Did you enjoy your brief visit to the New York forums?
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Old 12-04-2014, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Castlederp
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London not only has 13 football/ soccer teams, and is the home of tennis, cricket, rugby, horseracing etc, it's the only city with public stadia capacity for over a million (4 venues over 80,000, 2 over 60,000 with a third under construction, and numerous smaller stadia across the board).
Yes, in terms of sport, London is far ahead of NYC.

NYC may have big NFL and MLB teams, but most of those sports are exclusive to the US.

London currently has 6/20 teams in the Premier League, the largest football league in the world by some way. The TV rights for UK broadcasters alone are £3billion and the league is broadcast to over 200 countries.

Chelsea, the biggest team in London, have a turnover of £320million and an estimated 400 million fans worldwide.

The biggest stadia in London include:

Wembley: 90,000 capacity
Twickenham: 82,000
Olympic stadium: 80,000
Emirates: 60,000
Chelsea: 42,000 (soon to be 60,000)
Tottenham: 36,000 (soon to be 55,000)
West Ham: 35,000

Along with this, London is said to be 'home' to tennis (Wimbledon), cricket (Lord's), football (Wembley), rugby (Twickenham). Or in other words, the world's biggest sports. Absolutely no contest between NYC in this regard, London is the easy winner.
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Old 12-04-2014, 11:24 AM
 
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NYC, its not even close to be honest.
Of course it's bloody close! This thread wouldn't exist otherwise

And those clowns calling London a backwater etc, you should really do some traveling.
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Old 12-04-2014, 11:28 AM
 
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Having lived in both, New York. Londoners try to emulate New Yorkers (and US Americans in general) to an amazing degree.
London has enough culture of its own to not need to do that. If you lived here you would have seen that for yourself.

A little odd that NY has surged ahead the same time all these one-post-wonders have appeared. Don't think I've ever witnessed a greater display of sock-puppetry on these boards!
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Old 12-04-2014, 11:35 AM
 
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Yes, in terms of sport, London is far ahead of NYC.

NYC may have big NFL and MLB teams, but most of those sports are exclusive to the US.

London currently has 6/20 teams in the Premier League, the largest football league in the world by some way. The TV rights for UK broadcasters alone are £3billion and the league is broadcast to over 200 countries.

Chelsea, the biggest team in London, have a turnover of £320million and an estimated 400 million fans worldwide.

The biggest stadia in London include:

Wembley: 90,000 capacity
Twickenham: 82,000
Olympic stadium: 80,000
Emirates: 60,000
Chelsea: 42,000 (soon to be 60,000)
Tottenham: 36,000 (soon to be 55,000)
West Ham: 35,000

Along with this, London is said to be 'home' to tennis (Wimbledon), cricket (Lord's), football (Wembley), rugby (Twickenham). Or in other words, the world's biggest sports. Absolutely no contest between NYC in this regard, London is the easy winner.
Pretty much what I mentioned earlier, but in greater detail. And yes, nobody really cares about NFL, MLB etc outside the US.
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Old 12-04-2014, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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Pretty much what I mentioned earlier, but in greater detail. And yes, nobody really cares about NFL, MLB etc outside the US.
Except that inside the United States NFL is larger than MLB, NBA, and Soccer combined. It's a huge market that completely dominates American sports viewing. I'd be curious to see if the NFL has higher viewership and earns more revenue than a European Soccer League, I bet it'd be close.
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Old 12-04-2014, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Castlederp
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Except that inside the United States NFL is larger than MLB, NBA, and Soccer combined. It's a huge market that completely dominates American sports viewing. I'd be curious to see if the NFL has higher viewership and earns more revenue than a European Soccer League, I bet it'd be close.
I highly doubt it.. the final of this year's Champions League had an audience of 360million.

Manchester United is ranked as being worth £1.5billion alone

Turnover for the Premier League on TV rights alone is over £5billion
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Old 12-04-2014, 02:41 PM
 
Location: SE UK
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Having lived in both, New York. Londoners try to emulate New Yorkers (and US Americans in general) to an amazing degree.
He says in........ ENGLISH :-)! Seriously this is utter nonsense, I would suggest that both Londoners and New Yorkers are all far to wrapped up in their own worlds to be wooried about what's happening the other side of the pond.
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Old 12-04-2014, 02:45 PM
 
Location: SE UK
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Except that inside the United States NFL is larger than MLB, NBA, and Soccer combined. It's a huge market that completely dominates American sports viewing. I'd be curious to see if the NFL has higher viewership and earns more revenue than a European Soccer League, I bet it'd be close.
On this particular issue (sports) I doubt its even close, American football may well be big in the US but the sports teams in London have global following (London is also home to many of the worlds most popular sports including (but not only football).
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