Big long time.

Long big time.

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I certainly believe that it was big news in the British Isles, but I'm not sure how massive the global coverage of it was, given that multiple people in this thread hadn't heard about it.

Ok? Not familiar with the song. I'm familiar with Leicester Square because it's a famous London landmark and I have also been there.

I was listing everything I knew about the subject. That is the opposite of cherry picking.

It was on every major news network - USA, Europe, Asia, you name it. It wasn't just Britain. That's the point. Anyway, that's the point. It WAS huge news. Just because you and some people here didn't hear about it doesn't mean it wasn't big news across the world. It was.




You've never heard of it? Wow.

No, you were only seeing it from your point of view and refusing to accept the points Monkey and I were putting forward. When you said "so Europe is the rule now is it?" that was just silly. Nobody was saying that. There's no real argument here: we're just trying to say that both can be true. Some cities evoke, in some people, the images of sports teams. Some (I would say less - what do you think of when you hear Berlin, Belgrade, Dublin or Amsterdam?) evoke images of music. We actually accept your premise but you don't seem to be accepting that ours can also be true in certain cases.

So it's not "city names always evoke sports teams", it's "sometimes they do, and sometimes it's music".

As Troll says, it was on the major news networks. Same as when Chapecoense's team were killed. Maybe some people just switch off when they see its a sport story, but it was reported. It was especially big in Asia because Leicester's owners are Thai. Italy as well, because of Claudio where it was the first time an English sport story made their front page, but it shouldn't really need to be pointed out that it would have been major news in Europe.

I'm not sure if people are just unaware of the global appeal of the Premier League and assuming that because they didn't follow it, it can't be that big anywhere else.

It was the biggest sporting upset by some distance. Using betting odds (which represent the likelihood of something happening, with a bit stuck on top so the bookies can make a profit) for comparison, Tyson losing to Buster Douglas was about 25-1. MU's treble was 80-1. Leicester was 5000-1.

When was this?

Or maybe it wasn't as big news as you think it was.

Nope, never heard or heard of it.

My premise is that music can define a city as much or more than a sport. If you agree with that, I'm not actually sure why you're debating me about it.


Which was exactly my point, a refutation of Monkey's statement that he doesn't "see how a music artist is similar tbh they don't really represent the city in the same way".

I like how the bolded highlights my comment about how sports teams often don't have as much to do with their city as musicians who are actually from there.

LCFC is from there :D

If it is formed, located and based in that city and has been for 100+ years, never moved and likely never will, and contributes massively to tourism and the local economy, employing hundreds if not thousands of local workers, how is that having less to do with that city than a musician who was just born there?