Posted on 04/22/2015 7:06:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The English Premier League is arguably the world's most popular sporting competition, and certainly the world's most watched soccer league. It boasts a TV audience of 4.7 billion. Walk down a street in Sao Paulo or Lagos, Portland or Phnom Penh, and the one common denominator you'll see is someone wearing the shirt of a leading Premier League club.
A new data visualization produced by Twitter maps the global support for the EPL, based on the location of followers from each of the Twitter accounts of the league's 20 teams. It's probably not the most accurate assessment of worldwide fandom — a minority of people in the world are on Twitter, and following a team's Twitter account doesn't necessarily mean you back it. But the results seem credible.
On the map, larger concentrations of color reflect a greater number of Twitter users following certain teams. Large splotches of color may make it seem that overwhelming majorities of fans support one particular team in a country, but that's not the case. In most countries, loyalties are narrowly divided between the league's powerhouse clubs: Manchester United (red), Arsenal (yellow), Chelsea (blue) and Liverpool (teal).
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LOL, it took me a while, I was thinking Man-A, LOL... YES, Harry Kane!!! He is my absolute favorite English player right now, such a hard-worker, so much energy, un-selfish, and fearless, my kind of center forward, wish we could clone him for the US National team... Cheers, HK
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