Why does London not have a team with "London" in their name? Most other British cities do have the name of their city in a football club name.
It's like comparing yourself to Messi, it's presumptuous.
That's actually a very good point
They do, you just have to drop down to the 11th division
>>150698718Chelsea was originally going to be London FC at one point, it's why Stamford Bridge is in Fulham
>>150698718German pundits just add the London automatically to the point where I always thought those wear the actual names.I think it's to make the teams and matches they report on seem more important if people know it's the biggest city.
>>150698718None of those clubs are located in the City of London
>>150698718because in a major city, neighbourhoods are more important
>>150698718Because "London" is a bunch of towns all next to each otherSome of these clubs were founded before they were incorporated into London
>>150698764>mfw Chelsea London and Glasgow Rangers
>>150698718There is m8.
>>150699122Chelsea London? Not like I haven’t heard it; but Arsenal gets that treatment way more often. „Arsenal London“ is the standard here, I feel, while most people still say FC Chelsea
>>150699117This is the correct answer.London used to be a lot smaller 60 years ago. All of the boundaries changed in 1965 when they abolished Middlesex - merging it into London - along with huge parts of Essex, Kent, Surrey - which made London 5 times larger than it was.
Nobody in London ever mentions the word London. It's a cluster of small villages and hamlets as other anons have pointed out its
>>150698718Glasgow doesn't either. unless you count Glasgow City which is a womens teams (which we won't). The two main clubs in Edinburgh aren't called 'Edinburgh' either.
>>150698764>Juventus Turin>Lazio RomI could slap them, really>Inter Mailandthis one is acceptable since the full name is Football Club Internazionale Milano ( but nobody ever uses the full name).But I think it's just to give the location of a foreign (perhaps unknonw) club, especially back in the day without internet - and it stuck.PSV? Where does it come from, Paris Saint V...?PSV Eindhoven. Ah, Holland.
>>150699177>Glasgow doesn't eitherDon't mention Glasgow celtic and Glasgow rangers
>>150699167London is an all consuming beast which cannot be stopped. Like from that movie Mortal Engines where London is roaming around gobbling up smaller places.
>>150699167Except that still doesn't really explain. Lots of the main professional clubs in the OP were still in the old 'County of London' anyway and Tottenham and West Ham were in areas that were pretty much London anyway, its a bit disingenuous to say they weren't "London" clubs in areas that were culturally London and pretty much a stones throw from the administrative boundaries.Might as well get on a high horse about Nottingham Forest "technically" not being in Nottingham city.
>>150699185Those aren't their official names though. Its just "Celtic Football Club" and "Rangers Football Club". People just refer to them as "Glasgow x"
The accuracy of this tweet was truly remarkable
>>150699246The boomerang or banana effect can be seen in other parts of the world too. Humans love a banana.
>>150698718london is a collection of towns. manchester is too, but there is a town called manchester. the city of london has existed for 1200 years and is in your picture but is small and has no professional team.
>heh london doesn't actually existwhat is this cope
Recently I learned that the 'City of London' is actually just a small part within what is generally known as 'London' where all the UK elites do their elitist stuff and the rest of 'London' with its 10 million residents is really just 'Greater London' that surrounds the actual city, which is more like a village where only like 10,000 people live
>>150699246>vghhhh, High Barnet, the last strvnghvld of whvte civilisation
>>150699218>>150698718It's because those clubs were founded in the early days of football, mostly by workers from Northern England which was the original heartland of football. Football was a new sport, not very well known outside of major English cities, so it didn't make sense to include London in your club name, since most of the teams you were playing against were also in London. If you and your mates were going to start playing a brand new sport with barely any presence outside of your city, would you include your city name in your club?
>>150699149It's less common but appears every now and then
>>150699246curious as to whether the guy says what is the important factor of what isn't banana?
>>150699254Manchester United are firmly rooted in the Borough of Trafford though. Which is kind of a weird borough because it's not really got a main town like the others
>>150698748CLAIM YOUR LONDON CLUBFor me, it's Tooting.
>>150699285There were so many fucking Jews in Northern Manchester when I drove to Leeds, they were wearing their little Jewish uniforms, it was fucking disgusting.
>>150699270city of london is ran by the city of london corporation and technically not part of the UK. as it existed before the invention of (a united) England it was allowed to have a lot of independence. the Monarch only goes there if and when invited and has no power over it. in reality this matters little, unless you are doing your elite business.
>>150699246>Camden Town>Great time>south west London yuppieville>great timeThis guy is talking absolute shite. >t. born and bred South East Londoner (white)
>>150699279What's the other weird one in Germany where they call Bayern "Monaco" or something weird like that because of how it translates.
>>150699285For me it's Oldham.
>>150699270There you can see the original wall of the Roman city of Londinium, built up over thousands of years by various inhabitants.
>>150699313looks like styrofoam
>>150699297Yup it's weird, how much of it is tradition for tradition's sake, and how much of it is just a secret world I don't know.
>>150699270True. >insert picThe City of London is that tiny red dot in the middle. It’s the centre of the world’s “shadow banking” economy, which is estimated to account for half of the world’s assets. Very shady if you ask me…
>>150699327for me, it's the carmen
>>150699333Forgot pic
>>150699327There’s definitely some Freemason shit going on in that place. In fact just googled it. and yes, the grand Masonic lodge is located in The City of London. These are the people that run the world, not politicians.
>>150699288For me it Melbourne Sports, she'll be roight m8
>>150699246>these days where the fuck have these people been for the last two decades?>tory msm commentators only just start noticing what a shit state the countries in 5 minutes after a Labour government get in ah thats why
>>150699375Not just freemasons, but evil Jews too, since that evil scum Cromwel let them back into England. The British monarchy has been indebted to the Rothschilds for centuries
>>150699302... sorry, what do you mean?
>>150699522jews are cool, fuck off
>>150700222Jews are evil, child-mutilating scum.
>>150698748London Samurai Rovers
>>150699270Exactly. The Lord Mayor of London, who does all of the cool ceremonial stuff like Dick Whittington used to do, is an entirely separate figure to Sadiq Khan.Greater London encompasses three cities - the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark - plus countless smaller towns and villages that it swallowed up as it expanded, such as Barnet
Because “London” is actually Middlesex
