Sport in Britain

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Football Football or soccer is really popular and some of the English teams are known all over the world Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. It has a long history. Football was played by the whole village teams in the middle ages in England. Now football is the most popular game in Britain. It is a team game. There are some amateur teams but most of the teams are professional ones in England. Football is played at school too.

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Rugby Rugby was invented in Rugby school in Warwickshire. It is similar to football but is played with the oval ball and the players can carry the ball and tackle each other. You can see a ball in this game, but it is not round. It is oval. This is a team game too. There are fifteen players in each team. It is very popular game in Britain. There are many amateur rugby teams.

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Table tennis Englishmen heard about table tennis in 1 88 0 . It is a sport, sports game based on throwing rackets through special ball game table with a grid according to certain rules. Players aim is to achieve a situation where the ball is legally tapped by the adversary. Major international tournaments - the World Cup and the Olympics. Then the International Table Tennis Association was formed and the international rules were worked out. Many people like to play table tennis. This game is played by men and women too. There some tennis clubs in England, but if you go to play there it is necessary to pay money for it. Englishmen like to play tennis but many of them prefer to watch this game.

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Badminton Badminton takes its name from the Duke of Beaufort‘s country home, Badminton House, where the sport was first played in the 19th century

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Boat racing Boat racing also originates here from the 19th century when the students of the two oldest universities, Oxford and Cambridge, decided to hold a competition.

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Cricket Cricket is England‘s national sport. Nobody in the world play this game, only the real English people. The game is difficult and dangerous.

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Hiking One more popular activity in Britain is hiking. They just go out and spend their time walking throughout the countryside