8.43% of shirts were sold in Lagos, beating Manchester and Arsenal in particular. Quantity of Arsenal shirts sold were not recorded, an indication of its low patronage or unavailability, to be fair to Arsenal fans. However, I can’t help, but mention, the sometimes over bearing support of Arsenal fans in Nigeria. Not sure what the noise is all about considering the lack of trophies over the years.

Moving on, a study of eight of the most popular Premier League team shirts has uncovered a selection of interesting figures.

The bots over at Sports Direct have conducted research into shirt sales across the United Kingdom, with  proving far more popular than their arch-rivals .

A study of eight of the most popular Premier League team shirts – , , , , Newcastle, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham – has uncovered a selection of interesting figures.

Most surprising of all is perhaps Aston Villa who have seen a huge chunk of their shirts being sold in Dublin, ahead of their home city Birmingham and other nearby cities.

Chelsea have a high quantity of shirts coming from Lagos in , while 4.05 per cent of Manchester United shirt sales are from Fijnaart in the  which is likely related to the summer managerial appointment of Dutch coach Louis van Gaal.

Interestingly, 94.57 per cent of shirt sales in Manchester are United jersey’s (sorry, City fans!). [via ]

95% of all shirts sales in Manchester are Manchester United shirts.

All the rest of the stats can be found over at Sports Direct.