All you Bloody yanks are all alike. Nothing but Wishers and Dreamers. Bloody Yanks!

A list of the sports that were first either invented or formalised into the sport we know today by the British, including the British overseas - and I’ve probably missed some.

Football

Rugby

Rugby League

Gaelic football

Australian rules football

Cricket

Hockey

Ice hockey golf

Curling

Tennis

Squash

Rackets

Fives

Hardball

Fencing

Billiards

Snooker

Downhill skiing (yes really)

Slalom skiing

Polo

Canoeing

Water polo

Table tennis

Rowing

Archery

Horse-racing

Yachting

Skating

Mountaineering

Boxing

Swimming

Cycling

Badminton

Motorcycling

Had it been left to you Americans - the only sport we would be involved in these days would be - baseball and your weird version of rugby with shoulder pads and helmets.

Yeah all those sports are way more popular than football and baseball.....

GOOD JOB BRITS!

Some of these are flat out lies. Skiing as a sport comes from Norway.

The English first used the term "hockey," but variations of the sport existed in ancient Ireland, Mongolia, and Greece thousands of years before that.

Ice hockey started in Belgium and Netherlands, though it did evolve to its current form in Canada.

The first cycling race was in France.

The first swim club was in Germany. The first meet was in London, but the English got beat... by Americans.

I'm sure there are others. Besides, most of these began before the US was a country or early in its history.

So what, England/Ireland/France are 100% Huns from Asia 300AD-600AD who raped and created your race.

The states will always be ineffective on the round. We will always have the greats like Rod Dixon, Zola Budd, Mo Farah, Roger Bannister, Foster, etc.

You Bloomin yanks have only Pre.

Good Day

It is so nice that Lord Coe is spending so much of his valuable time to raise so many Pounds so all of those sport-loving Brits can fill the stadium and cheer for us Yanks to win 30 medals.

Does the UK have even ONE serious medal candidate in track and field for 2012?

No matter how silly the idea of having a queen might be to us, as Americans we must be gracious and considerate hosts.

I look at last year's world list at 1500m and see four Americans before anyone representing the UK makes the list.

Seems like a bit of a flip-flop from the days of Coe, Ovett and Cram.

England has Old Gregg!

"Love games?"

You forgot disemboweling.

"and now for something COMPLETELY different!"

I just want to be the lucky one who draws attention to some of these sports listed previously...

Rugby vs Rugby League vs Gaelic football vs Australian rules football - All the same uninteresting sport.

Cricket - ...

Hockey vs Ice hockey - Both? Really?

Curling - Where would humanity be if we didn't have curling.

Squash - Tight. Four 70 year olds at my YMCA thank you.

Rackets - Perhaps you mean squash.

Fives - I'm not even going to bother wikipedia-ing this.

Hardball - The televised news show in America?

Fencing - Up there with squash.

Snooker - Hee hee hee. Wait what?

Downhill skiing (yes really) - (no not really)

Slalom skiing - Perhaps you mean skiing.

Polo - Who else would invent polo?

Canoeing - Traversing a distance in a boat?!?! That was probably like Sumer or something!

Rowing - Stop trying to split the same general activity into different activities.

Archery - Yeeeeeah kind of like canoeing. Maybe you held the first competition, but that doesn't mean you invented it or "refined" it.

Horse-racing - See archery

Yachting - Is that so? Being on a yacht? Less of a sport than poker.

Mountaineering - So you came up with a word for traversing hard-to-traverse distances. Not invented nor formalized.

Swimming - How might one have formalized swimming? Again, holding the first championship doesn't mean people weren't competing in it before then.

Badminton - A true diamond in the rough. Or maybe that was Fives...

a man kog land wrote:

The states will always be ineffective on the round. We will always have the greats like Rod Dixon, Zola Budd, Mo Farah, Roger Bannister, Foster, etc.

You Bloomin yanks have only Pre.

Good Day

I was actually talking to Rod in New Orleans several days ago. Could have sworn he talked about NZ!

trollism wrote:

You have to be pretty stupid not to realise that the OP is an American looking for the resident oddballs to reply with xenophobic rubbish.

Looks like he was successful.

Looks like we need to send you to the graduate school of trollism to learn how to play the game properly. Yes, everyone knows that the OP was speaking with the best faked British accent he could muster up, which wasn't bad you have to admit. And after such a wonderful performance, it would be insulting to him not to respond appropriately with some over the top British insults to let him know how much you appreciate his trolling and his attempt to create a lively thread.

Don't be a know-it-all "the emporor hasn't any pants on" little twat. Save that for a real thread when the Uncle is railing against the crackers and the rich.

Why are you bringing Canada into this debate?

Tru Blu wrote:

You aren't even worthy to set your buck-teeth, knock-kneed, pansy little self on an American preschool track let alone compare yourself to the greatest nation this universe has ever produced.

Pure rubbish, the whole lot of you soft americans. The Olympics on the bound, we will wipe your buggery asses into the track. Long Live the Queen!!!

2012 London.

for Christs sakes man. This is why the Africans are running circles around us. Help your own kind out.

Er... wrote:

Why are you bringing Canada into this debate?

Tru Blu wrote:

You aren't even worthy to set your buck-teeth, knock-kneed, pansy little self on an American preschool track let alone compare yourself to the greatest nation this universe has ever produced.

Isn't it part of the USA?

Well, you certainly took the bait.

What about this then.

Another British first - and quite right too - it doesn’t matter much if fewer American mongrels are born - but the genuine British bloodline is sacrosanct!

Combat codpiece

British troops are to be issued with a 'combat codpiece' to protect their nether regions from bombs in Afghanistan.

Defence technology based on armour worn by Genghis Khan's Mongol warriors in the 13th century known as the "pelvic protector," but which has become known among the ranks as the "combat codpiece", will contain anti-blast underpants to offer protection from IEDs.

The equipment ? which also includes a "jockstrap" to protect the nether regions of the wearer ? is only being worn by British troops, but may be taken up by US and other Nato forces.

The Mongols, as well as Chinese and Japanese forces, used silk as protection against arrows, with the material twisting around arrowheads to blunt it. The modern version is based primarily on silk and serves to deflect shrapnel. The need to introduce the protective clothing and armour, which will cost around £10m, had become acute, with the increasing use by insurgents of "pressure plate" IEDs.