By David Owen
March 5 – A new YouGov poll suggests that football fans have a better reputation than is sometimes suggested – in London at least. The poll indicated that Londoners had a broadly positive impression of fans of all but three of the UK capital’s top teams – West Ham, Chelsea and Millwall.
Asked if they had a positive or negative impression of fans of 11 London clubs, a sample of just over 1,000 London adults gave Fulham and Arsenal supporters the biggest collective thumbs-up.
One in three gave Gooners a positive ranking, against just 18% with a negative impression, producing a positive balance of 15 percentage-points. The remaining 49% of the sample expressed no view one way or the other.
Fulham fans actually fared even better, since, while 28% rated them positively, only 10% pronounced that they had a negative impression. This made for a positive balance of 18 percentage-points.
Other clubs whose fans left, on balance, a positive impression were, in descending order, Brentford, QPR, Leyton Orient, Charlton, Crystal Palace and Spurs.
West Ham fans were viewed negatively by 25% of those polled and positively by 20%, leaving a negative balance of a modest five percentage-points.
The impression of Chelsea and Millwall fans was strongly negative, however. Chelsea supporters were ranked positively by 13% of respondents, but negatively by 43%. For Millwall, these proportions were 7% positive and 45% negative.
Details of the results can be viewed here: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/03/04/chelsea-and-millwall-fans-voted-worst-london/
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