Sport
The town has two senior football teams, Sittingbourne F.C. (nicknamed "The Brickies") and Woodstock Sports F.C. (nicknamed "The Sports").
Sittingbourne F.C. currently play their games at Bourne Park, a former training pitch behind the main Central Park Stadium, which is currently used for greyhound racing. The club play in the Ryman League Division One South.
Woodstock Sports F.C. (formerly Norton Sports) play their games at Woodstock Park (renamed The W.E.Manin Stadium as part of a sponsorship deal) near the Kent Science Park. The club play in the Kent League. They share their ground with Woodstock Park F.C..
Motorcycle speedway racing has been staged near Sittingbourne for a number of years. The track was originally used for training alone but since 1994 the Sittingbourne Crusaders took part in the Conference League and other competitions. The track remains today as a popular speedway training facility open to riders all over the country. Sittingbourne Speedway Website
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“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)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)