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Ghosttrain

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Favourite Sports
« on: July 12, 2019, 06:33:27 PM »
Not sure if this has been done before,had a quick peruse and could'nt see anything,also not sure if there will be much interest.......by this i mean watching not just playing,i will allow Darts and Snooker which i know some purists do not count as sports............anyway lets see,here are mine in no particular order....
Football/Soccer
Tennis
Cycling (Road Racing)
Hockey
Darts
Cricket
I used to play Football/Soccer and Hockey when i was young........

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2019, 06:49:19 PM »
Moto GP
Fencing

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2019, 08:28:41 PM »

Now, I might be regarded as a complete failure of a man because 'sports' are usually something I have no interest in.  Football... a bunch of idiots kicking a ball around.  Cricket... wake me up when something actually happens.  Tennis... back and forth, back and forth, back and.. oh shit, I just slipped into a coma through sheer boredom alone.   ;D

But there are two sports that I like, one of which is baseball and the other is boxing.  Mainly because I'm such a movie fan and there have been so many good movies about these two sports.  I've never seen a live boxing match but a few years back I was in Chicago and saw the Cubs play at Wrigley Field and what a fantastic night it was.  Met so many great folks, beer was supped, hot dogs were eaten and I pretended to know the words to 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' during the 7th Inning Stretch.   ;D

Other than that... I'm afraid sport passes me by.




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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2019, 09:48:23 PM »
WATCHING:
- basketball
- football (not dull soccer)
- auto racing (Indy 500 is thee greatest sporting event)
- boxing
- tennis (the four majors are must see TV)

PLAYING:
- baseball
- boxing
- skiing

- I love basketball the most...and it is the sport I am the worst at. The ball just does not go in the net when I shoot it.
- Auto racing used to be sooooo great. The Indy cars are still good to watch, but Formula One and NASCAR have now reached the point of unwatchable.

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2019, 11:52:54 PM »
MotoGp
Football
Mma
Boxing

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2019, 09:50:29 AM »
Darts
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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2019, 02:36:28 PM »
I'm a trail runner.

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2019, 03:54:39 PM »
Football (not the over hyped American crap)

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2019, 08:46:07 AM »
I love to watch Snooker. Not ever played one frame in my life, but i went to Berlin for the German Masters to see it live and that was my only effort to go out and see sports live.

I played Handball for a long time in my youth, this sport i also like to watch, but sadly it is so underrepresented in the tele.

In Hamburg they have a sportspaß-pass (sports-fun-ticket) and you pay 10€ a month and it lets you do many, many different sports throughout Hamburg. You to choose your sport and the place where it is held and you just go there. I discovered this way too late, now i'm leaving Hamburg, but i managed to go to Badmindton, do a Tai-Chi course and had some fitness training.

I love indoor team or ball sports. There's this special atmosphere inside a gym, the sound of the shoes on the floor, the smell (in handball you use tree-resin to get your hands more sticky, and this stuff IS sticky as hell, but it smells so special) and it is such a different feeling to run inside a gym on this special floor with special indoor shoes. Kind of artificial, but i grew up and spent much time in gyms, so i kind of miss this.
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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2019, 07:03:14 PM »
Footy
Rugby (wish id carried on playing after school)
Cricket
Hockey
Darts
Crown Green Bowls










No. I lied about the last one. Although I used to watch it. Bit of skill involved in it tbh.
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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2019, 09:51:29 PM »
My dad used to play bowls , flat green tho don't think they do crown green in Scotland, I know there is a bit of a difference.
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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2019, 08:00:09 AM »
I always think of Crown Green Bowling as a Midlands /Staffs.thing............i may be wrong ?....

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2019, 06:43:39 PM »

Crown Green Bowling is something I used to play with my grandad when I was a young fella... we were in Cheshire but used to play it in parts of North Wales as well.  A rather sedate sport but surprisingly addictive.  I'd love to give it a go again one day...

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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2019, 08:40:52 PM »
I always think of Crown Green Bowling as a Midlands /Staffs.thing............i may be wrong ?....
Its a Midlands, North Midlands and North Wales game apparently......and Cheshire by the looks. I didnt know that.
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Re: Favourite Sports
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2019, 04:22:58 PM »
Cycling - especially road & track
Motorsport - anything 4 wheeled and 2
Athletics - along with swimming, possibly the "purest" form of sport - running, jumping, throwing etc ?
Tennis
Winter sports - skiing, bobsleigh, skeleton etc

Used to love football, but completely indifferent to it these days. Also loved watching snooker in its tv heyday of the 1980s, but don't find it so compulsive anymore.