Volleyball

Volleyball. In Poland extremely popular. In the UK, almost anonymous. I went to watch the match on the pot women league in England.
English volleyball top league have 8 teams.
I wanted to see one of the best teams - Polonia London.
A team of Polish orgin.
But I did not expect so litttle interest in the object of volleyball.

Summary:

15.02.2014
Match: Polonia London - Ashcombe  Dorking 3:0
ticket: free
attendance: 8!
match programm: free

Barbarians

In the end of november we went to London Twickenham.
We saw the centenary match of Fiji rugby.
Fiji play with Barbarians. If someone does not know what they are Barbarians please read here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian_F.C.

Summary:

30.11.2013
Match: Barbarians - Fiji 43:19
tickets: 25 pounds
attendance: about 60000 ( about 200 Fiji supoters)
match programm: 5 pound

Women's rugby

A cold November evening we went to a women's rugby. First time. Positive surprise.
A lot of people, the atmosphere better than 6NC.

Recommended!

Summary:

13.11.2013
Match: England Women - Canada Women 32:3
tickets: 10 pounds
attendance: 2500 (50 Canadian supoters)
match programm:?

History of sport.

Today without pictures.
Besides walking the games we are very interested in the history of sport.
Below presentation of some of our books.
Write if you also interested in the history of sport.
If soplease write what you read.

Babcock Trophy vol. II

After the matches women and veterans we went to Twickenham Stadium to see the first teams.

Summary:

27.04.2013
Match: Army - Navy 43-26
tickets: 20 pounds
attendance: 75000 (70% Army 30% Navy)
match programm: 4 pounds

Babcock Trophy

 We go again to watch Rugby (of course not the first time).
We chose a very interesting military game.
The Babcock Trophy. What is it?
 Read:

The Army Navy Match is the annual rugby union match played between the senior XV teams of the Royal Navy and British Army. It marks the culmination of the annual Inter-Services Competition. Although a match was played between the officers of the British Army and the officers of the Royal Navy at Kennington Oval, London on 13 February 1878, it was not until 1909 that the Army Navy Match became an annual fixture, when it was jointly administered by the newly formed Royal Navy Rugby Union (RNRU - 1906) and the Army Rugby Union (ARU - 1906). Since then it has been played every year, with the exception of during the world wars (1914-1919 and 1940–45) when the matches were suspended. The 2013 Army Navy match saw another new record crowd of 72471 watch the Army Navy match which was one of the most compelling ever. The Navy took an early 19 - 0 lead before the Army pegged them back to be all square at half time. The Army then went on to a 43 - 26 victory with their captain, Darrell Ball, being named Man of the Match. 

Small curio. 
 Our impressions from the cup described in the Polish website dedicated to rugby.

http://80minut.pl/index.php/kategorie/swiat/788-babcock-trophy


Summary:

27.04.2013
Match: Army - Navy (women) 54:12
tickets: -
attendance: 1000
match programm: -

27.04.2013
Match: Army - Navy (veterans)22:7
tickets: -
attendance: 1000
match programm: -

6NC

Rugby! Rugby!
We love this game.
6 nations Cup. We were able to get tickets for the match only England - Italy.


Summary:

10.03.2013

math: England - Italy 18:11
tickets: 60 pounds (for us)
attendance: 81 458 (500 italian supoters)
match programm: 6 pounds