It has higher ratings than ping pong and lawn bowling.
It also outdraws cricket and curling.
Is a large following YUGE or really big, like 20 -30 thousand?
Define large.
I don’t follow the sport nor am I touting it in any manner. However, it is a popular league worldwide.
Here is one source:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/1280062
This has established that cumulative audiences for live Premier League programming rose 11 per cent to 1.35 billion.
As Manchester City and Liverpool contested a thrilling title race, a cumulative global audience of 3.2 billion for all programming watched the action between August 2018 and May 2019, an increase of six per cent on the previous season.
These figures are only for standard in-home viewing and exclude out-of-home and mobile device viewing.