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February 7, 2021February 8, 2021Neil Fredrik Jensen

The big apple is the top sporting banana

NEW YORK may have two well-backed football clubs but it is the profile and strength of its various sporting entities that makes it the world’s top sporting city, on the evidence of research by the Swiss-based consultancy Burson, Cohn & Wolfe (BCW).  New York, for the second year running, has topped BCW’s Ranking of Sports Cities. […]

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August 25, 2018Neil Fredrik Jensen

Commentary Box: Leading cities are not always top football cities

IT goes without saying that for football fans who like a trip abroad, the ideal excursion is a combination of culture, football, food, drink (!) and meeting people from different corners of the world. If, like me, you tick all of those boxes when you go on a jaunt, then you inevitably form some form of […]

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