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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by TulliusCicero on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:15AM (#30683545)
Fair, my thought process was more around "how many people wouldn't know about London if their sports teams disappeared?" And my intuition was, "not many, because London is a global city for lots of reasons," but it's possible I was wrong about that and some people only know about London because of their EPL teams. The thought feels very odd to me.
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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by dagw on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:22AM (#30683598)
Obviously nobody 'only' knows London because of their sports team. But that is different from saying that London doesn't have many globally well known teams or that there aren't a fair number people that travel to London from all over Europe primarily to watch those teams play.
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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by TulliusCicero on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:06AM (#30683897)
Well, I did say known for pro sports teams. I guess exactly what that means is debatable, especially when a city is famous for many things.
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