favourite of the big four english team sports

the little field hockey i've seen suggests that it is an awful sport

lol dan they were like the golden snitch

field hockey is great fun to play fwiw

field hockey may be fun to play, but it's awful to watch

It's quite like football, in a lot of ways. Closer to it than rugby is.

Can't wait for favourite of the big four Scottish team sports:

Shinty
Errrrrrrrr, curling...... I suppose

Caber toss.

even girls hockey?

xposts

i watch field hockey occasionally, it is diverting

That's close to women's football (xp)

xposts. as in i'd need a team to throw a caber.

or a bloke called Caber

I'm imagining Lex is an avid fan of the World Strongest Man... errrrrr, the contest I mean

WSM is quality entertainment!

I never miss it!

Scottish sports: The sheaf-toss is my absolute favorite. I'll be watching some on Saturday, now that you mention it.

Football is a lot more posh than it used to be. A lot of people simply cant afford to go to football anymore. Just look at the prawn sandwich brigade,that didn't exist in the 1980s.

Think you're confusing league football with football here. Also, a lot of people can't afford to do a lot of things any more, it's not exclusive to football.

(also, a kid's season ticket at Celtic Park is £50, which is like under £3 a game, which wouldn't even buy you a prawn sandwich)

Sorry, LJ, I mentioned Celtic on your thread, please mock me forever in your stylish and inimitable way.

Voted football. Cricket is pretty great as well tho.

ailsa you are allowed 5 further mentions, allusions or otherwise before i object. use them wisely.

Maybe the lex will get excited by the start of the 20/20 cricket world cup today.

I went with cricket. I follow football more closely, but I enjoy a good Test match far, far more than any football match. Rugby union I could take or leave, but as a team sport it requires the most teamwork out of all 4 sports, so it has a certain appeal to me as well.

Rugby

Lex: if you go to a cricket match and you don't get steadily pissed whilst keeping half-an-eye on the match then you are basically doing it wrong. Cricket is the best spectator sport in this regard.

hurling, you little bitches. hurling.

sorry that came across a little aggressively. GAA does that.

anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQ2Vxez2V4

darraghmac that truly seems like a brilliant sport in every single way except for the "unbelievably dangerous for your health" element, which, and I have to be candid, puts me off a bit

i have some decent scars from playing it up to u-14 level, true, but last year was a record low for fatalities i'll have you know. fastest ball sport in the world.

Thought that was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI-HqszRq0g&feature=fvw

it should be:

football
cricket
rugby
korfball

Stuff that could've replace hockey: tug of war, morris dancing.

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England just fucking won the European Championship of hockey, I feel vindicated