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If you didn't follow the Wanderers who would you support in regards to your proximity?

Closest non league team would be Altricham which is around 2 miles.

Using - http://www.hopewiser.com/proximity-search/ my search is quite unfortunate....

3.84 miles PR Manchester United Football Club
6.61 miles PR Manchester City Football Club .
12.01 miles L1 Bury Football Club
12.32 miles L1 Oldham Athletic Football Club
13.32 miles L2 Macclesfield Town Football Club
15.41 miles L1 Rochdale AFC
15.51 miles PR Bolton Wanderers Football Club
17.64 miles PR Wigan Athletic Football Club
22.81 miles L2 Crewe Alexandra Football Club
23.53 miles PR Blackburn Rovers Football Club


So four rival clubs in the PL within a 25 mile radius of my postcode. Not many people have that kind of fierce competition within a few miles. I assume the next two on the list would have been Liverpool and Everton.

comment by AndyGee (U1737)

posted on 14/3/12

So from Wigan it is less than 20 mile to six other Premier League clubs, no wonder their ground is alwys half full.

posted on 14/3/12

2.69 miles L2 Crewe Alexandra Football Club
12.18 miles L2 Port Vale Football Club
13.83 miles PR Stoke City Football Club
19.48 miles L2 Macclesfield Town Football Club
28.06 miles L2 Shrewsbury Town Football Club
28.83 miles PR Manchester United Football Club
31.43 miles L1 Tranmere Rovers Football Club
31.46 miles PR Manchester City Football Club
32.32 miles PR Liverpool Football Club
32.89 miles PR Everton Football Club

comment by Admin1 (U1)

posted on 14/3/12

comment by largehat™ has no shares in BWFC (U3027)

posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

When we added the geo-checkin feature on ja606 we never thought to add a feature similar to the one on that site.

Though our check-in feature hasn't really been used in anger.
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I want to use it, Admin1, but there are two obstacles.

One is that the match articles are pretty hard to do on an iPhone on the way to a game, adding smilies, stats, links, team news and formatting takes forever.

The other one is that there is so much network congestion at the Reebok, I struggle to even view threads, never mind create them.

The only solution I can think of to improve this situation would be to allow a geo-check in to apply to an article after it has been created, say, within 2 hours or something.
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The way we kinda envisaged it, would be people would check-in at the stadium. Then create the article about the game when they got home.

posted on 14/3/12

1.28 miles PR Manchester United Football Club
3.44 miles PR Manchester City Football Club
8.99 miles L1 Bury Football Club BL9 9HR
9.06 miles L1 Oldham Athletic Football Club
12.07 miles L1 Rochdale AFC OL11 5DR
14.24 miles PR Bolton Wanderers Football Club
15.50 miles L2 Macclesfield Town Football Club
17.32 miles PR Wigan Athletic Football Club
21.16 miles PR Blackburn Rovers Football Club
22.02 miles L2 Accrington Stanley Football Club

posted on 14/3/12

5.72 miles PR Manchester United Football Club
7.44 miles L1 Bury Football Club
7.46 miles PR Bolton Wanderers Football Club
8.80 miles PR Manchester City Football Club
10.40 miles PR Wigan Athletic Football Club
12.38 miles L1 Oldham Athletic Football Club
12.67 miles L1 Rochdale AFC
16.02 miles PR Blackburn Rovers Football Club
18.35 miles L2 Accrington Stanley Football Club
21.30 miles CH Burnley Football Club
21.36 miles L2 Macclesfield Town Football Club
21.91 miles L1 Preston North End Football Club
23.06 miles PR Liverpool Football Club
23.17 miles PR Everton Football Club

i live closest to United....Im the opposite of a Glory hunter

So many clubs in such a short distance...im not suprised we struggle for fans tbh.

posted on 14/3/12

7.41 miles CH Leicester City Football and Athletic Co
11.73 miles CH Coventry City Football Club
23.79 miles L2 Burton Albion FC
25.47 miles CH Birmingham City Football Club
25.82 miles PR Aston Villa Football Club
26.14 miles CH Derby County Football Club
26.18 miles L2 Northampton Town Football Club
27.50 miles CH Nottingham Forest Football Club
27.66 miles L1 Notts County Football Club
29.11 miles PR West Bromwich Albion Football Club

All I can say is, thank goodness my Dad forced me to support Bolton!

posted on 14/3/12

4.50 miles CH Peterborough United
40.77 miles L2 Northampton Town
42.59 miles CH Leicester City
46.01 miles L1 MK Dons
46.64 miles L1 Stevenage Borough
49.28 miles CH Nottingham Forest
49.49 miles L1 Notts County
58.05 miles CH Coventry City
60.21 miles CH Derby County
60.83 miles PR Norwich City

Location wise it'd be Peterborough.

I do keep an eye for Norwich's results having gone to uni there.

posted on 15/3/12

On Current Location. I did grow up within walking distance of Burnden though.
1.13 miles Preston North End Football Club
9.43 miles Blackburn Rovers Football Club
13.97 miles Accrington Stanley Football Club
14.01 miles Blackpool Football Club
14.50 miles Bolton Wanderers Football Club
15.04 miles Wigan Athletic Football Club
19.80 miles Burnley Football Club
21.20 miles Bury Football Club
21.59 miles Morecambe
23.95 miles Rochdale AFC

comment by Firstof (U4545)

posted on 15/3/12

Since we moved to the Reebok, Bury are now my nearest club, so I guess I'd have followed them ......

Thank God for Burnden Park in the 60's then!!

posted on 15/3/12

From my current location;


0.55 miles PR Manchester United Football Club
3.92 miles PR Manchester City Football Club
7.66 miles L1 Bury Football Club
9.00 miles L1 Oldham Athletic Football Club
11.33 miles L1 Rochdale AFC
12.52 miles PR Bolton Wanderers Football Club
15.75 miles PR Wigan Athletic Football Club
17.12 miles L2 Macclesfield Town Football Club
19.52 miles PR Blackburn Rovers Football Club
20.58 miles L2 Accrington Stanley Football Club

However, from where I grew up;

3.89 miles L2 Crawley Town
18.24 miles CH Crystal Palace Football Club
19.90 miles L2 AFC Wimbledon
21.38 miles CH Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club
23.81 miles PR Fulham Football Club
24.07 miles PR Chelsea Football Club
24.51 miles CH Millwall Football Club
25.29 miles L1 Charlton Athletic Football Club
25.54 miles L1 Brentford Football & Sports Club
26.29 miles PR Queens Park Rangers Football and Athletic Club

Good job BWFC ran in the family!

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