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sports traditions
[quote=sishow;314678]As for sport as a whole, I have no idea. A lot of sport in the UK is regionalised. Schools in some areas play one sport when in the next county they play a completey diff sport. So while one city produces alot of rugby Union players for instance, the next city may produce large amounts of cricketers!
Your right,moved around a fair amount as a kid, one summer cricket,the next rugby union, one school I attended banned football!!! (rugby mad welsh headmaster)
I also think that in terms of popularity of sports in terms of mass support,class distincions have played a big roll. things have changed in recent
years but historically rugby union and cricket have been mostly associated with the middle classes( historic university origins), football and rugby league
the sports of the working classes.I would like to know if class has played any part in the history of the mass support of sports in other contries,AUS/USA
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