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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... 6533034.jp
Just shows how lover leauge fans are far much more commited than someone who only supports a Premiership team.

!0% discount off car hire for the day ~ Who knows any fans who hire a car for an away game?

Can't see how that is that going to save a football fan any money

OK so I have done it once!

The average Manchester United fan would refuse to travel more than 60 miles to see their team play, according to a survey.

As most are London based they still get to see a few games tho

heysham_mfc wrote:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/Football-Blackpool-fans-going-distance.6533034.jp
Just shows how lover leauge fans are far much more commited than someone who only supports a Premiership team.

Nope.

ALL it shows is how easy it is for a canny PR man to get his company's name in a newspaper by using a completely meaningless set of 'survey' results.

While 'more than 1,000' (ie probably 1,001) survey respondents may be enough to accurately gauge the habits or opinions of, say, residents in a community of 4,000 people about a local planning application, it is totally worthless as a measure of, what? several hundred thousand football fans.

Also, how were these fans contacted and which categories of 'fans' were they? Season-ticket holders? Random visitors to a Europcar website?

And how many of each club's fans responded?

For example - perhaps two Blackpool season-ticket holders and travel club members were the only respondents from that club, whereas 150 12 to 15-year-old Man U fans living in Norwich and Inverness made up their survey contingent.

Utterly worthless as a survey, neat bit of PR trickery for the company, though.