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Not this again. Historically we've never been a massively supported club. For a lot of the cities history we had two football clubs, couple this with major football cities being on our doorstep and having a.history of being a lower league football club and you can kinda tell why we don't have a bigger fan base. And a lot of that 500,000 talked about lives closer to other football clubs or has no historical ties to the city. I'd say the crowds we get now with the poor product on show is over achieving

 

I believe only 15 year ago it was around 300,000. So without turning this into a political immigration post I doubt we saw such a steep rise in population simply by local people having loads of kids otherwise a nationwide trend would now see Britain over 100 million. Most who immigrated here probably don’t even know Bradford has a football club.

 

Also the Bradford district covers are large area , football fans in keighley , Addingham, Silsden etc are just as likely to support Burnley, Leeds

 

Especially round Lucy Hall Drive. Top end of Baildon is rather posh

 

Or Liverpool or Man City. A lot of people are very fickle glory hunters when it comes to football

 

Give your head a shake lad, Baildons a nice area. That area of the world going toward Leeds is really nice, quite desirable.

 

Very true. Shelf is in BMDC but I'd pretty much Halifax territory. Brighouse is only about four miles from there but is a hot bed of dog botherers, parts of Cleckheaton are in kirklees

 

He’s probably thinking of his old home?
Menston!

 

I live in Guiseley and on my street it is majority city fans, we are taking over! Oh the irony!!!!

 

And that estate in Menston that it has been turned into, sorry for anyone who lives on there is the most soulless and strange place around.

 

I know but when one said, years ago “ You should be in Menston” , EVERYONE in Bradford, especially Manningham, knew what was being referred to . You seriously telling me you don’t know that?

 

Yes real shame, one of my mates from school many moons ago used to be an avid Bradford fan but now supports Man City. Hardly goes to games and claps his hands like a seal watching them on BT Sports on a sofa. Just never been able to get my head round it, yes of course the football is better but you can’t beat going with your mates or family to your local ground!

 

I was intrigued by the suggestion that the population of the wider City of Bradford has grown by around 200,000 people in just 15 years, so looked up the data at the Office of National Statistics.
In 2019, the population was 539,776. In 2007 it was 501,357. So an increase of around 38,500. A big increase but nowhere near what has been suggested.
The figures would be different for the city itself, but the figures of 500k + are for the wider Metropolitan District, including Shipley, Keighley etc
I wonder if you have compared an older City only figure with the newer wider District figure?

 

Well the ONS provide the definitive figures, they are best available. It seems the City Vent podcast didn't do their research.

 

Yet most folk in Baildon would love a Leeds postcode

 

Depends which stats you use. The city if Bradford is about 260,000 but BMDC which includes Keighley, Bingley, Ilkley etc is, and pretty much always has been over half a million.

It's the Bmdc figure stats are quoting when they say Bradford is the sixth biggest city in the uk

 

leave our resident Chammi bandit out of this!