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Best sports town in the UK?

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Febbos, Sep 12, 2011.

  1. Elmos_right_peg

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    I get what u did there but trust me poole only has speedway and greyhounds haha not the best sports in the world bit i do love the fact that their football team dont even play at the stadium but on a field like the one at ennerdale haha
     
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  2. Barmbys_Tan

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    ''The Hull area has available a wide range of both spectator and participatory sporting clubs and organisations. These are as various as professional football, rugby league, golf, darts, athletics and pigeon racing.[176]
    The city's professional football club, Hull City A.F.C. (The Tigers), play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system after relegation from the Premier League in season 2009–10.[177] The team play at the KC Stadium.
    Hull is also a rugby league hub, having two clubs who play in the engage Super League competition. Hull F.C., alongside the city's football club Hull City, play at the KC Stadium[178] while Hull Kingston Rovers play at Craven Park in East Hull.[179] There are also several lower league teams in the city, such as East Hull, West Hull, Hull Dockers and Hull Isberg, who all play in the National Conference League.[180] Rugby union is catered for by Hull Ionians who play at Brantingham Park.[181] and Hull RUFC who are based in the city.[182]
    The city has two athletics clubs based at the Costello Stadium in the west of the city – Kingston upon Hull Athletics Club and Hull Achilies Athletics Club.
    Cycling wise the city is home to Hull Cycle Speedway Club situated at the Hessle raceway near the Humber bridge. The side race in the sports Northern league and won both the league titles in 2008. Other cycling clubs also operate throughout the city including Hull Thursday, the areas road racing group.
    The city also has Hull Arena,[183] a large ice rink and concert venue, which is home to the Hull Stingrays ice hockey team who play in the Elite Ice Hockey League.[183] It is also home to the Kingston Kestrels sledge hockey team.[184] In August 2010, Hull Daily Mail reported that Hull Stingrays was facing closure, following a financial crisis.[185] The club was subsequently saved from closure following a takeover by Coventry Blaze.[186]
    The Hull Hornets American Football Club which acquired full member status of the British American Football League on 5 November 2006 and played in the BAFL Division 2 Central league for 2007. Greyhound racing returned to the city on 25 October 2007 when The Boulevard stadium re-opened as a venue for the sport.[187] In mid-2006 Hull was home to the professional wrestling company One Pro Wrestling, which held the Devils Due event on 27 July in the Gemtec Arena.[188] From 16 May 2008, Hull gained its own homegrown wrestling company based at the Eastmount Recreation Centre-—New Generation Wrestling—-that have featured the likes of El Ligero, Kris Travis, Martin Kirby and Alex Shane.[189]
    The city played host to the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, a tough 35,000 miles (56,000 km) race around the globe, for the 2009–10 race which started on 13 September 2009 and finished on 17 July 2010.[190][191][192] The locally named yacht, Hull and Humber, captained by Danny Watson, achieved second place in the 2007–2008 race''

    Wikipedia explains most ;)
     
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  3. originallambrettaman

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    How do they charge people to get in, it looks like you can wander in from any side? :emoticon-0112-wonde

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    The whole ground must have cost less than they got for Charlie Austin.
     
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  4. Elmos_right_peg

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    Bugger me they actually got a stand i dint realise that haha only lived here for 6 years haha but i know where it is and yeah that hill at the top right of the pic goes onto the main road plus its next to pooles equivelent of bransholme years ago haha
     
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  5. Elmos_right_peg

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    Actually my bad i cant see the pic too well on my phone i think those two small pitches are next to the hill but yeah i suppose you only have to pay if you want to sit in the stand
     
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  6. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

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    Get your coat,or choose a window !
     
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  7. smidgen

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    There's always Badminton - another nice town......
     
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