Monday, 29 January 2007

Geographically Illiterate BBC...

From the BBC Sports Page describing the 5th Round Cup Draw...

"Preston will host neighbours Manchester City,..."

Just how far away can somewhere be whilst still being classed as a neighbour! :roll:

2 comments:

Stonch said...

Yup. Reminds me of when people describe Middlesborough / Newcastle as a derby...

Lennon said...

Yeah, I was going to use that as a similar example that really irritates me, but thought that the 'Tyne-Tees' derby was well enough established in public perception despite its falsehood to be counter-productive!