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Football blog rankings

Posted by DavidM in Football blogs | 10 March 2006

I’ve been looking at my football blogroll and wondered which where the biggest football blogs. Below is my ranking of active football blogs – those with at least one entry since 1 Feb 2006 - based on the total number of comments posted against the latest 3 articles.

It’s not perfect – I’m sure I’m missing some blogs, the last 3 articles may be better/worse than normal for some of the sites and I haven’t taken into account the quality of the comments (spam, etc) but it’s a start.

Rank Blog - # Comments
1 Arseblog - 1202
2 The Shelf - 190
3 East lower - 123
4 Chelsea football club blog - 70
5 Gunnerblog - 54
6 Blogfc - 47
7 Lord of the wing - 44
8 All quiet in the east stand - 36
9 United rant - 33
10 Arsenal Muse - 32

11 Arsenal wtf - 30
12 WANC Portsmouth - 26
13 All things footy - 17
13 What was the score - 17
15 Celtic FC blog - 16
15 Cheer up Alan Shearer - 16
17 England national team - 13
18 Liverpool FC blog- 11
19 An addick for life - 8
19 Black & white & read all over - 8
19 New York addick - 8
22 Bitter and blue - 7
22 Football commentator - 7
23 A town called malice - 6
24 Mist rolling in… - 4
24 Offside - 4
24 Real life blues - 4
27 Addicks premiership diary - 3
27 Alternative Aston Villa blog - 3
29 Hobo tread - 2
29 Joys and sorrows - 2
29 The Bundesliga - 2
32 Blue murder - 1
32 True Chelsea blue - 1
34 A wee spot in europe - 0
34 A-League of their own - 0
34 Asian champions league - 0
34 Big smoke and footy - 0
34 Blue Dorset - 0
34 CV-I - 0
34 Extra Tyne - 0
34 Football corner - 0
34 Football to you - 0
34 QPR FC - 0
34 QPR report - 0
34 Round and white - 0
34 St. Mecca - 0
34 Sunderland AFC blog - 0
34 Tails of Bolton - 0
34 Talk CAFC - 0
34 The US soccer league - 0
34 Toffee Blog - 0
34 World cup football news - 0

So Arsenal are top of the table by quite a margin followed by Spurs (The Shelf). Arsenal blogs make up 3 of the top 5.

Interestingly, there was another Spurs blog – Tottenham Hotspur Blog News – that was getting up to 1200 comments per article until it stopped posting in August last year!

The numbers follow the standard blog curve with a small number of blogs with lots of activity, and a large number of blogs with low levels of activity (the ‘long tail’).

If I’ve missed off a football blog you run or use, let me know and I’ll add it on when I update.

Cheers

David

Comments

1. At March 14, 2006 10:08 PM Dean wrote:

Glad to see I am in the top 1000!!! Although alphabetically 34th I do receive a lot of unrealated coments to the blog which takes me quite a while to rifle through and the majority of others want me to contribute to their offerings on the net!!

2. At March 30, 2006 2:58 PM Keving wrote:

7th in an EPL dominated league.

just about where Celtic would finish if it was real life.

proud of my Bhoys

3. At March 31, 2006 2:04 PM Anon wrote:

And where are Rangers?

Oh, nowhere to be seen. No surprise there then.