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Sport holds a central place in British culture, and the United Kingdom has played a key role in both the development and global spread of many sports. In the early stages of organized sport, the Home Nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland) were instrumental in establishing formal rules and forming some of the earliest governing bodies, national teams, and domestic league competitions.
Ice Hockey is Britain's largest indoor spectator sport. It has a long history in the UK and it is reasonably well supported, with the larger teams attracting thousands of fans to every game. The main league is the ten-team professional Elite League, which has featured many former NHL players, predominantly during the NHL lockout season.
History of sport in the United Kingdom by team (3 C, 1 P). British sport by decade (34 C, 1 P) British sport by year (250 C) B. History of baseball in the United ...
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17 January 1597 — a court of law in Guildford heard from a 59-year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "hee and diverse of his fellows did runne and play at creckett and other plaies " on common land which was the subject of the current legal dispute ...
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Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
History of sport in the United Kingdom (17 C, 1 P) M. Sports mass media in the United Kingdom (11 C, 7 P) Sports medicine in the United Kingdom (2 C, 17 P)