Talk:Sport in England

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[edit] Official national sport

I've tagged the following sentence as requiring a citation:

"Cricket is the official national sport."

As far as I'm aware, England does not have an "official" national sport at all.Dancarney (talk) 16:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

|Easier just to edit it; "Cricket is the unofficial national sport." makes sense.GordyB (talk) 18:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I would've said that Football is the national sport, though - not that I have a citation for that either! Dancarney (talk) 22:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

There is a recurring debate on Wikipedia as to the precise meaning of the phrase "national sport". Some take it to mean "most popular sport" which is unquestionably football while others think that it is about which sport represents the "soul" of the country. In England, cricket can be argued to fufil this role.GordyB (talk) 23:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I think that without a citation the statement is invalid, as football could equally be argued to represent the "soul" of the nation.Dancarney (talk) 10:07, 27 March 2008 (UTC)