Sport
In association football, Kent's highest ranked football team is Gillingham F.C., who play in Football League One. There are also Kent clubs in higher levels of non-league football with Dartford and Ebbsfleet United playing in the Football Conference with Dover Athletic and Tonbridge Angels playing in Conference South.
Kent is represented in cricket by Kent County Cricket Club who play at the St. Lawrence Ground in Canterbury as well as at the Nevill Ground in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)