by >>Since nobody else has pointed out the deliberate mistake;
>>Tranmere Rovers play at Prenton Park, Prenton being
>>a suburb of BIRKENHEAD which is a somewhat delapidated town
>>situated across the Mersey from Liverpool.
>>Although a shadow of its former self
>(Did you know that New York's central park was modelled on Birkenhead park!!),
>>Birkenhead still has its own town hall and is thus separte from
>>Liverpool.
>...and this, of course, brings out the problem with such queries -
>different people have different ideas about what constitutes the "same"
>place. I've seen Leeds and Bradford lumped together as a "metropolitan
>area" in some tables which would add West Yorkshire to the list, but I
>imagine people from Bradford and Leeds see it very differently. How
>close are they compared to the distance between, say, Barnet and
>Crystal Palace? That's another one - technically, are Barnet in London?
matter how close they are.
>of Middx, or, I suspect the GLC. In Tranmere's case it's certainly
>become fashionable to lump them in with Liverpool and Everton as
>"Merseyside" clubs. The West Midlands introduce more delineation
that Tranmere is in Merseyside, always has been. So Tranmere are a Mersey-
side club. They are not however in Liverpool.
As a side issue did you know that a lot of Tranmere's supporters are also
Liverpool/Everton supporters. Tranmere play there home games on Friday nights
which enables supporters to go to their's and Liverpool/Everton's home games
in the same weekend.
Can someone post the full round up of last night's (Wed 5th) FA cup results?
Regards,
Jon.....