Sport
The main sport competed in Bolsover is football with Bolsover Town and the greatly supported Sunday Club, Bolsover Old Boys playing their games at the 'Field of Dreams' on Mooracre Lane. With Bolsover being in close proximity to both the towns of Mansfield and Chesterfield, the fan base is mixed; however most of the town support Chesterfield FC and are known as Spireites although there always has been and is a growing minority of Mansfield Town FC supporters in the town which creates a great rivalry between the Stags and the Spireites. The Mansfield Town fans are often referred to as 'Scabs' which dates back to the miners strike.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
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