Sports
Salford has a notable history in sports, which includes hosting some of the events in the 2002 Commonwealth Games: rugby league, speedway, and horse racing. Salford had a venue for horse racing since the 17th century; the earliest record of racing at Kersal Moor dates from 1687.
Salford City Reds is a rugby league club and has been based in Salford since 1873. They participate in the European Super League. Salford now play all home games at the Salford City Stadium. Junior rugby league is also played within Salford's boundaries, with Langworthy Reds and Eccles Roosters amongst other clubs providing playing personnel to the senior club.
Salford Quays has been used as a major international triathlon site, but a 2009 aquathlon was cancelled because of a lack of competitors.
During the early part of the 20th century speedway was staged at Albion Stadium.
The city is one of the largest settlements in the UK without a professional football team; in the formative years of the sport the region's football heartland was in east Manchester, with few teams to the west. Non-league Salford City of the Northern Premier League are the city's only representatives in the football pyramid.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)