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Football (Soccer) London

69 Reviews Chelsea FC is an English professional football club in London. The club was founded in 1905 and plays in the Premier League. Until now, Chelsea in the Premier League champion 4x, 6x, they won the FA...

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Football Manchester

19 Reviews My one love, Manchester City Football Club! Get yourself down the the Etihad Stadium to watch a game of football. Check the website for ticket information and dates. - Your ticket! - Your glasses! -...

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Football (Soccer) Birmingham

12 Reviews Whilst in Birmingham you can watch a football (soccer) match if you want to. During the football season when the matches are on (and at home) it can make a great day out because the atmosphere is a...

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Oxford United Oxford

1 Review Oxford United play football in the English third division at the Kassam Stadium. It is a nice compact stadium built on only 3 sides, the 4th side is a car park. It can be a nightmare to get out of...

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Football Newcastle upon Tyne

13 Reviews Football, the great passion of Newcastle... try getting anything done on a match afternoon... Notably the home team of Alan Shearer, Newcastle's pride in their team is not misplaced. Everywhere...

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2012 Olympic Games London

27 Reviews The Olympic Games are coming to London in 2012 and with less than a year to go now excitement is building for sports fans. We were lucky enough to secure tickets for three events in the ballot –...

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University Sports Oxford

1 Review Oxford was the scene of one of the most famous sports events of the 20th Century - the first four minute mile. Nowadays, it's common for professional athletes to break this barrier, but back in 1954...

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Great North run Newcastle upon Tyne

2 Reviews The Great North Run is definitely one of the highlights of the sporting calendar in the North East – indeed, of any calendar! It is a half marathon, starting near the Town Moor to the north of...

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Wembley Stadium London

14 Reviews Wembley is synonymous with one thing in the eyes of the world, and that is football. OK the famous stadium, now totally rebuilt, hosts many other events, both sporting and musical, but it is for...

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Rugby Newcastle upon Tyne

2 Reviews Althoguh I am not a big rugby union fan, Newcastle do have a good rugby union team, who play in Englands premier rugby league. They are called the Newcastle Falcons, and also have the David Beckham of...

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Winter Sports London

12 Reviews The Canary Wharf ice rink, open from mid-November to mid-February, is the one we use most often as we both work in Canary Wharf, just a couple of minutes' walk from the rink. The rink is somewhat...

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Running, Jogging and the Marathon London

13 Reviews One of London's best known sporting events, the Marathon takes place in late April 2012 along a 26.2-mile route that starts in Woolwich (just near where we live as a matter of fact!), goes through...

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Tennis London

13 Reviews Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in the London suburb of Wimbledon since 1877. nearest tube...

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Cricket London

10 Reviews Cricket is very much a game played by the English and members of Commonwealth countries.the most famous venues are The Oval and Lords cricket Ground which is off Wellington Road. As cricket is played...

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Watersports London

16 Reviews If you are up for a spot of fishing out of London, this is a really good spot to go to! This fishing farm is about a 2 hour drive from London, in the picturesque county of Kent! At Shirkoak Farm...

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Rugby (Union and League) London

8 Reviews I was looking for something besides castles and museums to take my niece and nephew to and was originally going to purchase tickets for a football (soccer) game but then my nephew said what he REALLY...

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Cycling London

4 Reviews London is a superb place to cycle. There are plenty of paths and the scenery is gorgeous (unless you are a commuter cycler!). Nothing beats exercising out in nature! No smoggy streets and noisy...

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Golf. London

3 Reviews When I was thinking of taking up golf, the main question was: 'Will I find time to actually practice it, given our (then mine) travel schedule?' Luckily, places like the World of Golf (of which there...

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Walking and Hiking London

5 Reviews The Thames Path National Trail is great to walk. It's a 294 km long path from the source of the Thames river in the Cotswolds to almost the Northsea. In the greater london area the path covers both...

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Equestrianism London

5 Reviews I first heard about Rotten Row when I was editing a newsletter for a special interest group on horses. One of our members went to England and mentioned it. Rotten Row is the most famous riding trail...

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Some very strange sports

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So you’ve been to the match, tried to get to grips with cricket and maybe watched some rugby (league or union) as well. What other sports can you watch or participate in here in England? Well, of course there are all the usual sports popular all round the world, but for something a bit different how about one of the following? The British Marble Championships: these take place in Sussex during Lent each yearEgg-rolling: an Easter tradition in Lancashire. Eggs are hard boiled and decorated, and hundreds of children compete to see whose egg can roll the furthest down a grassy slope without cracking. The World Coal Carrying Championship: held annually in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Competitors, each carrying a hundredweight of coal, have to run nearly a mile as quickly as possible, before being allowed to drop the "secks ‘o’ coil" (Yorkshire dialect for sacks of coal) at the foot of the Maypole...

Going to the match

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The most popular spectator sport by far in England is football. And when an English person talks about football, they mean what our US friends refer to as soccer. The latter term is very rarely used here and is usually scoffed at by football fans!Despite the influence of extensive TV coverage and the consequent creation of so-called “armchair fans”, going to the match is still a very popular activity, and would be a great way for a visitor to the country to meet and mix with local people. The bigger and more successful the team, the harder it will be to get tickets for the match, though ticket agencies may sell them, at a premium. But there’s no need to pay a lot of money for games involving these big clubs if all you want is a good day out – tickets for lower league games, or even for those featuring teams at the bottom end of the Premier League, should not be too hard to come by and...

Popular sports

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The national sport is undoubtedly football, however there are numerous other popular sports including rugby, cricket and hockey. The national teams generally have a good heart and are eager to fight but rarely challenge for the trophies.

Cricket - a very English obsession

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If you’ve never watched cricket, you may find it more than a little confusing, although anyone familiar with baseball or rounders will spot that the main principle is the same, i.e. to use your bat to hit a ball bowled towards you, and to score by running between fixed points while the ball is in play. But that’s probably where the similarity ends. As I said, I’m not an expert, but anyone who watches a bit of sport in England can’t fail to pick up the basics of the game, so here’s my attempt at an explanation: A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called the pitch. A wicket, usually made of wood and consisting of three uprights with two horizontal pieces balanced on them, is placed at each end of the pitch. The objective, for the batting side, is to defend this wicket while also scoring...

Fishing in England

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England, and the rest of the UK as a whole, is one of the world's leading Fishing nations with some of the leading writers & innovators in the sport from here including Izaak Walton, "B.B.", Bernard Venables, Richard Walker, Chris Yates, John Wilson & John Bailey, among others + multiple Coarse fishing World champions such as Bob Nudd & Alan Scotthorne also being English.Sea fishing doesn't require any form of license, and can be done from the shore with something as simple as a £1.99 Handline + another £2 or so for bait, with the kids kept occupied for ages catching crabs from a pier, etc........ there's also many charter boat trips available from ports around the UK, such as my home town of Whitby in North Yorkshire (with tackle usually availble for hire on-board).There's still some good sea fishing to be had around the shore's of the UK, despite complaints that Spanish & French...

Leeds, Leeds, Leeds

by ciaran12

Ive been to Leeds a couple of times now, mainly to see Leeds United Play. I flew into LBA Airport and as soon as you get out of the arrivals gate their is a taxi rank and a bus which brings you right into the city centre. My advice is go to a pub before the match or have a look aroud the city. The matches usualy start at 3 pm and end at 5pm. If your staying in Leeds over night you should stay in the city on the NORTHSIDE!!!! you can get a taxi to LBA at the Stadium. Leeds Jersey. If you don't have one buy it at the club shop which is outside the stadium beside the statue of Billy Bremner.

A Game of Arrows

by St_Vincent

You might be lucky and find a pub with a dartboard although they have largely disappeared from all but the small traditional pubs. I think there is an economic factor to this, the dartboard brings in no direct income whilst a pool table or gaming machine generates extra revenue. If you do find one and there is a game going on, it is acceptable to join in if you wish, unless it is an organised match against a team from another pub. There will usually be a chalkboard on which the names of people waiting to play are written and you can simply add yours. It is polite to ask “can I put my name up” before doing so. You might find that games are being played between two pairs of players, especially when there are a lot of players who want a game. If you are on your own you might be invited to pair up with another player. When your time comes around you will be expected to “chalk” or score a...

Cricket - yaaaaaawwwwn!

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Cricket is probably the quintessential English sport. Watch out for games of cricket being played on village greens and playing fields during the summer months.Interest in cricket is being revived now that the England team is playing very well*. Interest has always been high amongst the countries of the British Commonwealth e.g. India and Sri Lanka. Therefore the game is particularly popular amongst English Asians.Professional cricket is played between two teams of eleven. The England team sometimes includes players from (the Welsh) Glamorgan county side, who are a top team ;-)England's first international match was in 1877, against Australia. Rivalry between England and Australia has been strong ever since!Famous English cricketers include bearded W.G.Grace (1848-1915) and Harold Larwood (1904-1995), exponent of modern-day 'fast bowling'.The home of English cricket is Lord's, near...

Sunday Morning Football - What a laugh !!

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If you want to see football for nothing, and have a bit of a laugh, just visit any large park at around 10.00am on a Sunday morning. There you will find groups of middle aged over-weight guys kicking the hell out of each other and swearing profanely at another poor bloke who has made the misguided decision to wear black and try to referee one of these chaotic encounters. Even more amusing are the "managers" and "trainers" on the sidelines who are effectively blokes who aren't good enough to actually play but don't want to miss out on the opportunity to question the marital status of the referee's parents. Generally the teams will be sponsored by either a local building firm, where most of them work, or a local pub, where most of them drink. In fact most of them will have been chucked out of the pub around 11.00pm the previous night and be back there about 20 minutes after the referee...

England's National Sport

by St_Vincent

If you want to watch a game of football or soccer in England you will have plenty of choice as there are 92 professional teams in four leagues spread throughout the country. The structure of the leagues is a bit confusing, I can remember back to the days when it was simply Divisions 1, 2, 3 & 4, then live TV coverage came along and greed took over. The teams in the first division decided that they could command better prices for their live games so broke away from the rest of the leagues, formed the Premiership, and started negotiating their own sponsorship and TV deals. So then we had the Premiership, and divisions 1, 2 & 3. Shortly afterwards the new first division clubs decided that they wanted their own separate identity as well so they formed the Championship. The upshot is that we now have the Barclays Premiership, the Coca-Cola Championship and a first and second division also...

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The Montague On The Gardens London

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Radisson Edwardian Manchester Manchester

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Guy Fawkes Inn York

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