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:
“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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)