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When it comes to sports, there's so many in London that it's almost impossible to keep up with them all! I'll try and give a few. When it comes to football (soccer), London has several major clubs that have devoted followings. The most famous of which is London Arsenal, a professional team that was founded by Royal Ordinance workers in the 19th century (hence the name "Arsenal" and their nickname, "the Gunners"). Arsenal is one of Britain's best teams, and regularly compete with Manchester United as the UK's most successful and popular football clubs. Also up there is Chelsea FC, another widely popular and extremely successful team that hails from London. Other football clubs include Crystal Palace, West Ham, Queens Park, Tottenham, Fulham, Leyton Orient, and Enfield, a non professional league team. Sound confusing? Here's a list of the websites... Arsenal--www.arsenal.co.uk Chelsea--www.chelseafc.co.uk Cyrstal Palace--www.cpfc.premiumtv.co.uk Queens Park--www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk West Ham--www.westhamunited.co.uk Tottenham--www.spurs.co.uk Perhaps sportswise, London is most famous for the Wimbledown Championships, the world's most famous tennis competition. Played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (even though a Brit hasn't won Wimbledon in decades) in late June/early July, the world's best tennis players come here to do battle. Check out all the websites for prices and times. Leave a Comment Theme: Sports WatchingWebsite: http://www.netlondon.com/sport Other Contact: http://www.wimbledon.org
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With 90,000 seats the stadium has the second largest capacity in Europe (after the Camp Nou, Barcelona), and the largest in the world with every seat under cove. This capacity is separated into 3 tiers of seating, with the lower tier holding 34,303 spectators, the middle one 16,532 and the upper one 39,165 The stadium is also the most expensive stadium ever built. I was there to watch a friendly match England vs Germany on 22. August, 2007 and the atmosphere was amazing, even though Germany won 1:2 :-) Leave a Comment Theme: Sports WatchingDirections: How to get to Wembley, please visit: http://www.wembleystadium.com/gettingtowembley/directionstowembley/Website: http://www.wembleystadium.com/
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You can see football all over the world, in the UK and even in London, but you'll never see the game played as well as you will by witnessing the Arsenal. And where better to see it than the Emirates Stadium? Okay. There are a few other teams in London. You could go and be bored by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's toy team at Chelsea, see the most expensively assembled team of misfits ever seen in the UK beat the likes Wigan 1-0 or see them whip the butts of mighty Macclesfield. They are so pathetic and boring even he hardly smiles during a game!! Or travel across north London to see the perennial failures Tottenham lose again.... or you could see the glory that is Arsenal. Leave a Comment Theme: Sports WatchingAddress: Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, London N5
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if you were there during the past 5 days, you'd have been aprt of South Africa Cricket history Graeme Smith with his 2nd double century of 259 has overhauled the Don's 254 to become the highest-scoring overseas player at Lord's. whilst Makhaya Ntini took 10 match wickets as South Africa won the second Test at Lord's with some degree of ease. Along the way, a jubilant crowd was treated to an exhilarating ton by Andrew Flintoff, who was finally stumped for 142. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/eng_v_sa_2003/3111231.stm see also >> Salute the young master by Jon Henderson Sunday August 3, 2003 for an interesting insight into another Graeme compared with our own legendary Graeme Pollock, Shaun's uncle - http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricket/comment/0,10070,1011512,00.html Leave a Comment Theme: Sports Watching
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