Sport
Goole Town Cricket Club supports local cricket teams. Of its three teams, the first team play in the club cricket York & District Senior League Premier Division. A new clubhouse was constructed in 1996 providing facilities and a bar.
Rugby Union is played close to the cricket club at Westfield Banks, sharing facilities with Goole Tennis Club. Goole RUFC currently field two teams, the first team playing in Yorkshire Division Two.
Goole has two football teams these been Goole A.F.C., and Goole United AFC. They currently they play in the Northern Premier League Division One South and the Humber Premier League Division One respectively. They both play their football at the Victoria Pleasure Grounds which is located on Marcus Street. The nearest professional teams are Doncaster Rovers, Hull City, Leeds United, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and York City.
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“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)