How come there are so many professional football clubs in London and so few in Paris, despite Paris being the bigger city?

it's actually just the same players, they wear different shirts every few days

>>149635546 (OP)
>despite Paris being the bigger city
>Paris' size: 105km
>London's size: 1 572km

thread over, move on.

>>149635546 (OP)
>despite Paris being the bigger city
In what sense? Paris has 2m people and London has 9m.
London is 1,500km squared, Paris is nowhere near that.

Because its an English sport

Perhaps it's mixing up [city], Greater [city], 'the wider [city] area' etc

paris is irrelevant

>>149635546 (OP)
The demise of Club Français following the Second World War

Paris density 19,000/km2 (Christian mayor)
London density 5,690/km2 (Muslim mayor)

Paris is a European city where you can spend all your time enjoying haute cuisine, fashion and art. London well... population exploded during the industrial revolution. They didn't develop a real culture. What else are you going to do than watch the local football match

>>149635546 (OP)
Here, when you have to choose your "local" Club, you always choose the closest relevant over your village or district's 9th division club. Meaning every city gets one professional club and no more.
Paris is the only exception because its greater area is gigantic compared to the rest of the country

>>149635546 (OP)
Most of those clubs represent their boroughs which have existed forever, some probably predate being incorporated into London
Paris is different

>>149635546 (OP)
Paris is more of a rugby city

>>149635546 (OP)
At the beginning of the 20th century, a flock of Parisian clubs such as Gallia Club, Standard Athletic Club, Club Français, Cercle Athlétique de Paris, etc. dominated French football until the First World War, which of course brought competitive football to a halt. With the end of the war, football made a comeback, followed shortly afterwards by the emergence of professionalism. It was a schism for French clubs and only Stade Français, Red Star and Racing Club de France managed to make the transition. These clubs remained relevant for some time and even survived the Second World War before falling into oblivion in the 1960s. It was in this context that PSG was created in 1970.

Nowadays, Stade Français no longer has a senior team, Racing Club de France plays in the 5th division and Red Star yo-yo between the 2nd and 3rd divisions. There is also Paris 13 Atletico, a relatively new local club trying to survive in the third division. And then there is Paris FC, PSG's cursed brother, who have finally been promoted to Ligue 1 after years of failure, but they are an empty shell and nobody cares.

>>149635546 (OP)
France simply doesn't have a strong football culture like we do.

>>149635546 (OP)
>Paris being the bigger city?
Lmao

>>149635546 (OP)
france is a real country, england is just london plus scotland

>>149637218
How many world cups has that earned you

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>>149635546 (OP)
Different approaches to city planning.
London has the traditional model of centralizing a big stadium, it was popular in the prewar era.
After war, mostly because of the Blitz and Hiroshima on respective sides, the ultimate plan of both Western and Eastern cities was sprawl.
Paris' football culture really didn't start until the 70s, and therefore the stadiums their clubs built were all on the fringes of the city.
After the SALT treaties and the layered-on Arab Oil Embargo you started seeing people leaning into cities gradually and today Millennials and Zoomers are typically on the side of "why did people ever move to the suburbs?"
But ultimately it's because the Nazis leveled Central London over a couple years and the Americans discovered a bomb that could destroy a central business district with one click.
Once those bombs were made relatively obsolete, the concept of war became further away for most urbanites and especially after the plummet in crime rates in the 90s-00s people look at an approach like this and go "why"
But if you look at stadiums of that era, the only major stadium built anywhere near the center of a city was Madison Square Garden and that only came to fruition over an infamous bureaucrat's infamous megalomania and included putting America's largest train station underground where it remained until a couple years ago.

>>149635546 (OP)
you can include clubs like Watford, Brighton, Brentford, Nottingham Forest, Norwich that are part of greater London

>>149635546 (OP)
>>149635598
>>149635637
You people don't understand how to discuss city sizes.

You don't use municipal borders unless you're specifically talking about the government. Municipal borders are irrelevant for city size in most circumstances.

Better metric is "urban area", which is just the continuously built up land. Urban area population and urban area density are more relevant metrics for comparing city sizes. London and Paris urban areas are about the same size (London is 11.2M, Paris is 11.0M), but London has much higher urban density of 6,480 per km2, compared to Paris 3,877 per km2. I wager this is due to the green belts that the UK has, which gives a firm boundary against sprawl. It also could be that some of London's satellite cities are counted as a separate urban area.

>>149635921
By this logic you might as well say that 'London' is only the 'City of London', in which it has a population of 10,847 and a density of 3,700/km2

The city limits of Paris are drawn much smaller than greater London is.

>>149646398
In France, yes. that's ALL matters.
Your american nonsense doesn't apply to us.
Kill yourself.

>>149640376
this refers to the entire metro area not the city. Paris has 2 million people and the metro area has 10 million

London has 9 million people and the metro area has 15 million people

>>149635921
how does one spend all his time enjoying fashion? what is there to enjoy that you'd spend more than half an hour doing

>>149646497 >>149648221

I don't really believe my own post. But the Britposter who always praises London, Premier League, over anything continental European annoys me

>>149650744
we're simply better simple as

>>149648221
>how does one spend all his time enjoying fashion?
by being incredibly gay or by being a woman with a very wealthy husband

>>149635667
This. It’s also a lower class and migrants sport

>>149635546 (OP)
>professional clubs

>half of them are semi pro

>>149635921
I love haute cuisine bro

>>149635598
frog nigga using a map that uses greater london and kent

>>149637344
you used coons to get yours our world cup is all white

>>149651881
>It’s also a lower class and migrants sport
Why is half of your team English then

>>149662111
Because they are Irish people who migrated to England you absolute melt

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>>149646398
Nope. People who live in Versailles, Boulogne or even borader towns like Vanves or Montreuil never claim that they live in Paris. There truly is a split between people who live in Paris, and the ones who live in the burbs. But the government is fighting this idea with their Grand Paris shit they've been pushing for years now.