In terms of the nrl, a competition that most brits dont even know exists, loads.

Good map isnt it!

It's irrelevant, it's about sporting achievements. Not who is the most popular.
Dressage or Gymnastics aren't exactly well watched sports
Burgess's heroics actually got quite a bit of media attention anyways.

Yep. Poor old Gutters, a bit like Lance Hohaia having a go at Ben Flower, he didn't think this one through.

Oohh....quite a bit of media attention. Id skip spoty and get on to the Vatican then....

Not really, it smacks of desperation (unsurprisingly) and incompletion.

A proper comparison map would've been Super League vs Aviva Premiership......you've felt the (increasing) desperate need the add the Welsh, Irish and Scottish teams from the Guinness Pro 12 to make it look even more wide spread. The lack of Treviso and Zebre make your inclusion of the other Pro 12 even more pointless.

It's a good map.

It's about as good and convincing as your claim that you were once an influential guy in the London Broncos club scene.

Never claimed anything of the sort......but you know that

Of course you didn't

I remember Carl fogarty not getting a look in after his 4th world superbike title.
If the sport doesn't fit in with the bbc way you have no chance..

From the Daily Mail rlRUGBY UNION SECTIONrl

I think a better map would be one that showed all of the RU and RL clubs, irrespective of grade as that would be more representative of interest.

A map of the football premiership is hardly one that shows a well distributed sport, London, M62 Corridor, Birmingham and Newcastle with Southampton and Swansea there too. Just one team south of Crystal Palace. A line from London to Hull hit's no other teams.

Lizzy Yarnold. Gold Medal at the winter OLYMPICS..only the 10th ever gold for GB. BBC covers the Olympics.
Max Whitlock. Multi medal winning gymnast, including Commonwealth, WORLD Champs and European games..all covered by the BBC
Adam Peaty. Commonwealth golds, 4 European Golds and a WORLD record.
Jo Pavey. Oldest ever Gold medal winner at the EUROPEAN championships
Rory McIlroy. WORLDS best golfer who won 2 of the 4 biggest tournaments in the WORLD.
Lewis Hamilton. WORLD CHAMPION
Kelly Gallagher & Charlotte Evans. First ever British winners of Gold at the WINTER PARALYMPICS
Carl FrochWORLD CHAMPION
Charlotte DujardinOLYMPIC, WORLD AND EUROPEAN champion at the same time.
Gareth Bale: The most expensive football player in the WORLD.

Of all of the above, only Gareth Bale should consider himself fortunate to be nominated and I doubt he'd be there at all if it weren't for Wales qualifiers (were they even shown on the BBC?)......the rest are all at the top of their sports globally, sports that are contended or played by more than 3 nations at the top level.

The Olympics, World and European Athletics, PGA tour, Formula one, Paralympics and Commonwealth games are all competitions involving dozens of nationalities, represented by people born in the countries they represent.

Sam Burgess played no international sport in 2014 and domestically, he played in a foreign competition not shown on the BBC. The Rugby league that is shown on the BBC contains either challenge cup games featuring teams from a single motorway corridor and a token French club, or a highlights show featuring teams from a single motorway corridor and a token French club.....

What next? Fat Nigel for Prime Minister?