Sport
The town is home to Burton Albion association footballteam, who play in the Npower Football League 2. Burton is also the location of the English National Football Centre, due to be opened in 2012. The NFC has been renamed St George’s Park
The Burton & District Cricket League has many notable clubs, including Burton Cricket Club, Dunstall Cricket Club, Abbott's Bromley, Yoxall and Lichfield Cricket Club.
Burton RUFC, one of the oldest rugby union clubs in the country, was established in 1870, when it played both association and rugby football rules. It did not adopt rugby union only rules until 1876.
The town is also home to the Burton Canoe Club on the banks of the River Trent. It has recently expanded and built its own clubhouse. Also along the River Trent in Burton are Burton Leander Rowing Club, which was founded in 1847 (and is one of the oldest rowing clubs in the country), and Trent Rowing Club, founded in 1863.
Burton is home to the 'Powerhouse Gym' International All Round Weightlifting team which was set up in 1985 by Steve Gardner (former World All Round Weightlifting Champion - Inducted into the IAWA (UK) Hall of Fame in 2000) The club trains All Round Weightlifters, including Powerlifting and Olympic Weightlifting and is affiliated to The International All Round Weightlifting Association. The Burton club hosted the 2008 International All Round Weightlifting Association World Championships.
Read more about this topic: Burton Upon Trent
Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)