Following up on Ronaldoknow's recent lament re laack of coverage in The Press, I've done a little analysis.
Sports News headlines (articles) from The Press online site, Thursday 17th May:
50 articles
27 rugby (14 crusaders)
5 netball
3 hockey
2 cricket
2 league
2 athletics
2 swimming
2 football
1 cycling
1 softball
1 harness racing
2 other (Dndn stadium and op-ed piece from US)
Anyone have any idea of the participation numbers of football compared to other sports? OK, so the town doesn't have a football team competing in a national weekly competition like crusaders or tactix at the moment as ASB Championship season is over; but surely as a sport we can get better media coverage? Or are we kidding ourselves? Rugby really is that entrenched. What about the number of Canterbury viewers of Yellowfever or 442 or other football websites, or how many Canterbury people watched the Man City v QPR game or will watch West Ham v Blackpool and Chelsea v Bayern Munich. I'd love to know how many are really following what sports.