These are the populations according to Wikipedia

Grimsby: 88,243
Eastleigh: 125,900

Discuss!

What about Cleethorpes and surrounding areas? We don't have Southampton on the doorstep either. Pointless comparison for me.

Quoted from GrimRob

These are the populations according to Wikipedia

Grimsby: 88,243
Eastleigh: 125,900

Discuss!

Grimsby 88,243 plus Cleethorpes 39,505 = 127,748

Don't know about the size of Eastleigh itself but just had a look on Google Maps and their ground really is tucked away....almost Cheapside ish

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=50.952294,-1.371769&q=50.952294,-1.371769&hl=en&t=m&z=15

Guess it doesn't matter though really...the team have got to the play offs on merit and their set up is of no consequence when it comes to tomorrow evening and Sunday afternoon when it's 11 v 11 on the pitch

Picturesque playground or the crap covered streets around BP won't have any bearing on the outcome. The onus is on us to play the better football and to win the tie

UTM

How about:

Premier League Burnley: 73,021
Non-league Grimsby: 88,243

Actually Grimsby and Cleethorpes are a combined North East Lincs local authority, and the population is 160,000.

The reason I asked was I was shocked how big Eastleigh is. I thought it was a very small town, I'd never heard of it until a few years ago until it became famous for by-Elections.

Don't forget Ming Ming

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Widnes 58,000, but they sustain a decent egg chasing team despite some big clubs on their doorstep.

Lots of big town clubs without a top level football or rugby league team and lots of smallish places who do!

Poole must be close to 150,000 people and as someone posted above Burnley is quite small & Accrington less than 45k

Probably means that all this has no relevance to life as we know it!!!

Don't forget that the boroughs surrounding Burnley have pretty similar populations themselves and no professional clubs (other than one with Accrington).

This immediately more than trebles the population number for Burnley. They are also a pretty well-supported club historically as well.

N.E. Lincs isn't that big population-wise, but we won't get too many of our fans from the surrounding boroughs due to support for Scunny and the Gimps. Or so I suspect.

I think Warrington is the biggest place that doesn't have a professional football club.

Obviously we know from this year's FA Cup that they do have a team, but it's unlikely it'll ever thrive when rugby league dominates so much.

St Helens - population of 102,000. Average gate at Langtree Park for Saints is about 14,500

Goodison and Anfield are 12 miles away and United and City about 25. Credit due.

They make some noise as well - least they did when they played at Knowsley Road.

Have to say - went to one game a few years back and realised why they call football the beautiful game.

Quoted from RichMariner

I think Warrington is the biggest place that doesn't have a professional football club.

Obviously we know from this year's FA Cup that they do have a team, but it's unlikely it'll ever thrive when rugby league dominates so much.

I went to see Warrington in 2002 as the ground was a stones throw from where I lived. Ticket price was £3. Attendance was 17. Home and away. They still had a little kiosk selling pies.

Quoted from RichMariner

I think Warrington is the biggest place that doesn't have a professional football club.

Obviously we know from this year's FA Cup that they do have a team, but it's unlikely it'll ever thrive when rugby league dominates so much.

Wakefield.....,

I was surprised like Rob about the size of Eastleigh. It probably never really developed a football club because as it grew it had Soton on the doorstep. It's a total guess but I'm assuming that most of the growth was in the later 20th century unlike GY.

It just said on BT Sport the population of Forest Green ( Nailsworth ) is about 6,000  talk about punching above your weight.