The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[ArchangelMadzz]

Ka-pi96 said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

Only paying for the English is why it was that 'cheap'. Also during the world cup pretty much everyone in America watched the US team but they don't watch the MLS which is why 71k is so impressive. It's like that in quite a few countries that have a decent national side but dead leagues, not that the MLS is dead it's growing fast. 

Tennis is number 8 apparently, People mainly only care about tennis here when Wimbledon is on (they're missing out). But even on your list you're not getting those numbers at F1 evemts. 

There definitely is a difference between national teams and club sides, mainly only locals are likely to watch club sides. But still, there's clearly a decent number of MLS fans out there. Orlando have had 60k+ attendance figures a few times as well.

And yeah, you're right. F1 events aren't getting 71k attendances... "the 139,000 people who turned up on race day" http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/40550469

Isn't that kind of like comparing viewership figures of the world cup to MLS viewership? It's the biggest F1 event on the planet judging by the chart on this website:

https://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/02/15/what-race-attendance-figures-tell-us-about-the-state-of-f1/

But I done goofed picking F1. Luckily Speedway is number 5 ;)