Sport

England, during the nineteenth century, was the location of the codification of a number of modern sports, including association and rugby football (both the union and league codes in rugby football), cricket, tennis and badminton. Of these, association football remains the country's most popular spectator sport. England contains more UEFA grade A stadiums than any other and is home to some of the sport's top clubs. The England national football team are considered one of the game's superpowers (currently ranked 4th), having won the World Cup in 1966 when it was hosted in England. Since then, however, they have failed to reach a final of a major international tournament, though they reached the semi-finals of the World Cup in 1990 and the quarter-finals in 2002 and 2006 and Euro 2004.

Sport England is the governing body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in England.

The 2012 Summer Olympics are to be hosted by London, England. It will run from 26 July to 12 August 2012. London will become the first city to have hosted the modern Olympic games three times, having previously done so in 1908 and 1948.

The 2012 Olympics will be host to 29 different categories of sport ranging from the more traditional Olympic sports such as running to some of the newer and more unconventional sports such as tae kwon do.

In the last few years the educational approach to sport in schools has changed considerably. Sport has been integrated into the teaching thesis with as much emphasis on sport and any other form of education. With a renewed focus on sports the next generation promises to be a far more developed group of sports men and woman. Sports which are traditionally places in schools range from football and rugby to more exotic sports such as shot putt and javelin this diverse mixture of sports provides interesting topic which will keep there attention.

Most modern football clubs offer youth group to encourage the playing of sports as well as allowing the opportunity to find the next prospective sports star such as David Beckham.