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Originally Posted by irishfrank
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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Thats what I think I was hinting at without trying to say it (I think I may go on too much about it on here inspite of it having nothing to do with los. So I try not to mention it!).
As for things changing...... When I started at university in Nottingham back in the day, i was stuck in a block with mostly students from working class backgrounds from around manchester and Brum. So when me and a fellow rugby union playing friend was talking about an up-coming cup game against Loughborough Uni (A pretty much sport orintated Uni) they all laughed about how serious we were taking it. Until we told them that top University level rugby, was until the clubs academys came, pretty much the second teir of rugby in England.
Thats why until recently all Top level rugby union players in the UK had degrees and could afford to play, as after there rugby career they had a professinal qualification to fall back on. How on earth could Brain Moore, the former England ******, be a qualified lawyer??? Was a middle class game when university was its only real 'inn'.