Sport Sport is very important in Britain and is a very large form of entertainment. Lots of British spend a lot of time attending sport events, reading newspapers or magazines dedicated to sports or watching TV-programmes related to sports. Here are the most common sports.
• Football is the most popular and played sport. Men mostly attend football matches. Football = soccer in the USA
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• Cricket is played in summer by two teams of eleven players on an ovalshaped grass field. It’s a bat-and-ball game and each game can last a very long time: up to five days of six hours each!
• Rugby is very quick and aggressive. Each game lasts for eighty minutes. Two teams of thirteen or fifteen players carry an egg-shaped ball over the opposing team’s line. © Sportsphotographer.eu-shutterstock.com
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• Horse-racing Lots of English people like betting money on horses. Even the Royal Family is present at some great meetings (Ascot, Epsom).
• Tennis and particularly lawn tennis, on a grass court, is the British game par excellence.
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