sport Archives - British Slang Dictionary

Snooker

Snooker is played on a table twelve feet by six — considerably larger than an American pool table — with…

Rugby began, by tradition, at Rugby School in 1823 when a pupil named William Webb Ellis picked up the ball…

The Premier League is the top division of English football and the most commercially successful sports league on earth outside…

The Championships, Wimbledon — never "the Wimbledon Open" — is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, first played in…

Cricket is the English summer sport, played on village greens and in enormous stadiums, and it is the game from…

Football is the national sport of Britain by an enormous margin. The modern game was codified in a London pub…