Sport
The town has two senior football teams, Sittingbourne F.C. (nicknamed "The Brickies") and Woodstock Sports F.C. (nicknamed "The Sports").
Sittingbourne F.C. currently play their games at Bourne Park, a former training pitch behind the main Central Park Stadium, which is currently used for greyhound racing. The club play in the Ryman League Division One South.
Woodstock Sports F.C. (formerly Norton Sports) play their games at Woodstock Park (renamed The W.E.Manin Stadium as part of a sponsorship deal) near the Kent Science Park. The club play in the Kent League. They share their ground with Woodstock Park F.C..
Motorcycle speedway racing has been staged near Sittingbourne for a number of years. The track was originally used for training alone but since 1994 the Sittingbourne Crusaders took part in the Conference League and other competitions. The track remains today as a popular speedway training facility open to riders all over the country. Sittingbourne Speedway Website
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“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)
“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.)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)