I will admit, I'm not really big on regional geography when it comes to England. I know where the bits and pieces are, but if someone were to make a joke about 'those girls in Hull,' I would smile into my 3.25% Real Ale bitter and pine for the hotel room so I could watch more of those late night shows where people call in at 35 p a minute to try and solve some idiotic puzzle about seals and boats.
However, I will bank that Wikipedia is telling me the truth when it says, "Hull weathered a period of post-industrial decline, during which the city gained unfavourable results on measures of social deprivation." In other words, Hull is Baltimore, or Sudbury. And North London is downtown Toronto. And everyone hates downtown Toronto.
I have to say, North London, is, if anything, a fun place to smile into a 3.25% Real Ale bitter all evening. Having said that, one can easily see why the rest of the country is pleased that the little football club from Kingston upon Hull, 104 years out of the top flight, is slicing up North London clubs as if they were giant slabs of Montreal smoked meat.
Perhaps that's why on the Hull wikipedia entry, that snappy little advert of a sentence was immediately followed by, "However, the city has embarked on a programme of regeneration and renewal and a range of sporting and cultural activities is available." Yeah, 'sporting activities' like condeming Arsenal to fourth place and relegating Tottenham, pretty much the wet dream of the entire Northern footballing establishment. They are the anti-Derby, and the Tiny Tigers are giving competitive parity in the Premiership a run at legitimacy. Unless of course it all comes crashing down in January, like most things in this world...
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