General Chat / Sports Questionare for English peeps

Sports Illustrated (popular American Sports Mag) has been doing a section in their magazine called Sports in America. In each weeks magazine, they focus on a new state. There has been some very interesting results and I got to thinking, how would England compare to the US states. So, for all of you Brits, answer the following questions:

- Favorite Premiership Team

- Favorite Sports Team (if other than a football team, or this could be a divisional football team)

- Greatest athlete who ever lived or played for a team in England

- England's biggest rival (example, France, Scotland)

- England's Bigest rivalry (example Manchester United - Arsenal, Man United - Man City, Liverpool - Leeds)

- Favorite Sport to play

- Favorite Sport to watch on TV (you can name more than one. Examples, football, rugby, winter olympics, summer olympics)

- Enemy of England (most hated sports player, coach, owner not associated in England)

- Most Hated Foe (different from rival. Who do you hate most)

- Greatest Sports moment or event in England

- Favorite Premiership Team
Man United

- Favorite Sports Team (if other than a football team, or this could be a divisional football team)
Above

- Greatest athlete who ever lived or played for a team in England
Graham Thorpe

- England's biggest rival (example, France, Scotland)
Germany

- England's Bigest rivalry (example Manchester United - Arsenal, Man United - Man City, Liverpool - Leeds)
Lancashire v. Yorkshire (cricket)

- Favorite Sport to play
Football

- Favorite Sport to watch on TV (you can name more than one. Examples, football, rugby, winter olympics, summer olympics)
Football, cricket

- Enemy of England (most hated sports player, coach, owner not associated in England)
Heskey. No, I don't care if he's associated with England.

- Most Hated Foe (different from rival. Who do you hate most)
Diego Simeone. Although I fear it may be some random croatian within a few hours...

- Greatest Sports moment or event in England
Again a personal one that I thought summed up England perfectly. When Graham Thorpe came back to test cricket after his marital problems and subsequent break, and scored a century at Lords. The camera looked into the crowd and found Sir Bobby Robson with a tear in his eye, giving Thorpey a standing ovation (along with the rest of the crowd).

Was Graham Thorpe the really big guy with the huge beard... can't remember, the guide at Lords went through the history so animately that he got me confused with names and dates and such that he kept spitting out.

- Most Hated Foe (different from rival. Who do you hate most)
Diego Simeone. Although I fear it may be some random croatian within a few hours...

lmao! It's so true

pbob - that's WG Grace, I think, with the beard. Graham Thorpe's still alive and playing.

- Favorite Premiership Team
Southampton

- Favorite Sports Team
Above

- Greatest athlete who ever lived or played for a team in England
Sir Steve Redgrave for solo effort, probably someone like Jimmy Greaves or Geoff Hurst in a team.

- England's biggest rival (example, France, Scotland)
Take your pick from: Scotland, France, Argentina, Sweden and Germany. And the Aussies for Cricket.

- England's Bigest rivalry (example Manchester United - Arsenal, Man United - Man City, Liverpool - Leeds
Arsenal - Man Utd. Any match with Milwill.

- Favorite Sport to play
FRISBEE

- Favorite Sport to watch on TV (you can name more than one. Examples, football, rugby, winter olympics, summer olympics)
Football.

- Enemy of England (most hated sports player, coach, owner not associated in England)
Diego Maradonna. Maybe.

- Most Hated Foe (different from rival. Who do you hate most)
Owen. No, Seriously its probably some German or Argentinian.

- Greatest Sports moment or event in England
John Barnes' solo goal against Brazil. Was is in England? Can't remember. Either that or Beckhams behind the half-way line goal against Wimbledon.

- Favorite Premiership Team - Arsenal

- Favorite Sports Team (if other than a football team, or this could be a divisional football team) - West Ham

- Greatest athlete who ever lived or played for a team in England - I don't understand if this is an English national team or English based team? If English national team in my opinion Gordon Banks. If English based team - Eric Cantona.

- England's biggest rival (example, France, Scotland) - Germany.

- England's Bigest rivalry (example Manchester United - Arsenal, Man United - Man City, Liverpool - Leeds) - Arsenal and Man United, although Chelsea and Arsenal is growing with every game.

- Favorite Sport to play - Football

- Favorite Sport to watch on TV (you can name more than one. Examples, football, rugby, winter olympics, summer olympics) - Football, Golf on the last day of a tournemant.

- Enemy of England (most hated sports player, coach, owner not associated in England) - ? Varies from tournemant to tournemant, sport to sport.

- Most Hated Foe (different from rival. Who do you hate most) - Ivan Campo (Bolton), I don't know why I just cannot stand him. I can't be alone he was the most fouled player in the Premiership last season I believe.

- Greatest Sports moment or event in England - (Since i've been alive) Winning Rugby World Cup 2003 - The parade around London. And I don't even like Rugby!

pbob - that's WG Grace, I think, with the beard. Graham Thorpe's still alive and playing.

Ah, ok, thanks for clearing that up for me.

- Favorite Premiership Team

Manchester United

- Favorite Sports Team (if other than a football team, or this could be a divisional football team)

PSV

- Greatest athlete who ever lived or played for a team in England

Van Nistelrooy

- England's biggest rival (example, France, Scotland)

Holland, they are just too good

- England's Bigest rivalry (example Manchester United - Arsenal, Man United - Man City, Liverpool - Leeds)

Who cares.

- Favorite Sport to play

Tennis

- Favorite Sport to watch on TV (you can name more than one. Examples, football, rugby, winter olympics, summer olympics)

Football, tennis

- Enemy of England (most hated sports player, coach, owner not associated in England)

Advocaat, oh wait, he's probably an english friend.

- Most Hated Foe (different from rival. Who do you hate most)

Germany, everyone should hate Germany. Germany has to lose..

- Greatest Sports moment or event in England

When they got their asses wooped by Holland. Beautiful. But a just as good sequel might come up someday, soon.

and on a side note, what kind of excluding english topic is this. Fuck that. It's so sad, I'm not even making a Dutch topic.

When they got their asses wooped by Holland. Beautiful. But a just as good sequel might come up someday, soon.

What the?

I seem to remember a 4-1 victory in Euro 96 where we raped your Dutch arses. =|

- Either Man City, Arsenal or Chelsea (im in it for the sport )

- Sale Sharks (Rugby Union)

- Rooney, Owen when he was good, George Best, Henry, Bobby Moore, Gordan Banks, Greavsy, Micheal Johnson (Rugby), Jason Leonard (Rugby), Jason Robinson (rugby), Jonny Wilkinson (rugby), Will Carling (rugby), Larrson (does Scotland count?) and many many more....

- In Rugby either France or Austrailla, In footy either Argentina, Germany, France, Brasil or Portugal (even more so now)

- Man Utd. and Man City

- Ill play anything.

- Anything except Golf. Good to play, shite to watch. Cricket sucks to watch too.

- Han Meirs (that Swiss basterd who got us kicked out of Euro. I cant spell his name)

- Han Meirs (sp?), Argentina, Germany, France

- Winning the World Cup, Winning the Rugby World Cup, Gazza's goal against Scotland, Owen's goal against Argentina, Rooney's wonder goal from outside the box.