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.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)