Sport
Crofton is in the centre of what is locally known as rugby land, with the local team Crofton Cougars contributing to the maintenance of the rugby tradition. The team was formed in 1996 by Pete Storey and Andy Reid. They play rugby in the CMS Unison Division 1. They won the CMS Division 2 title in 2006. The home ground of the Cougars is Cougar Park which is part of the Community Centre Facilities. It provides up to 3000 capacity, with both seating and standing capacity.
Crofton Cricket team play at The Sidings Playing Fields as well as Crofton Juniors AFC and Crofton Sports FC who have 2 teams playing in the Wakefield Saturday League and are based at the Weavers Green pub.
Nostell Miners Welfare F.C. also play at the community centre facilities and are currently in the Northern Counties Premier division.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)
“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.)