Tennis, badminton, squash

Tennis is perhaps most famous among them sport because most of the summer seasons in the UK occupy exactly championship Tennis: Wimbledon and «Stella Artois Championships», tournaments «Queens Club». More - Online Lawn Tennis Association.

British badminton players in recent years have made great strides. Biggest achievement was a silver medal Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson won them in mixed doubles competition at the Olympic Games in 2004, the main competition in badminton - open tournament «The Yonex All England Open» - held in March in Birmingham.

Squash - another extremely popular in the UK sport. In one of the best players in the world squash Villstrop includes James and Nick Matthew.

Curling

Many of us are now aware of the sports game of curling included in the Olympic program. It turns out that it takes its roots in Scotland. Comes from the English word curl - «spiral curl ." The first mention of curling belongs to the distant sixteenth century. In the mountainous parts of Scotland was found a fragment of a stone engraved with the date. Therefore, it is now considered the birthplace of Scotland curling.

Winter on frozen lakes in between wars Highlanders train and play this game. First used the usual fragments of rock , but in the eighteenth century British soldiers to "optimize" the stones , betraying them the appearance that they have now. Over time, the game was transformed, changed and developed rules .

From the history of professional sports Football

Each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own national football association that manages matters concerning football within the boundaries of their territory. This Football Association , founded in 1863 , the Scottish Football Association , founded in 1873, the Football Association of Wales, founded in 1876 , and the Irish Football Association , founded in 1880. This four oldest football association in the world, they take four of the eight places in the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which defines the rules of the game of football (the remaining four seats on the board belong to FIFA) . In England , Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there are various systems leagues . In Wales, there was no national league until 1992 (before that there were only regional leagues ) , because of what some of the leading Welsh clubs in the system are the English leagues. England football league system includes hundreds of different leagues and consists of thousands of different divisions. Elite division is Premier League , followed by England's Football League and Football Conference. Football league system includes Northern Ireland Premier League. One Northern Irish club, " Derry ", stands outside of the UK Championship in Ireland. Scottish football league system has two national leagues : Premier League and Football League , as well as several regional leagues. Welsh football league system includes the Welsh Premier League and several regional leagues.