TAILIEUCHUNG - Part 20- Britain

Tham khảo tài liệu 'part 20- britain', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 200 21 Sport and competition Apart from the horses and the dogs the most popular form of gambling connected with sports is the football pools. Every week more than ten million people stake a small sum on the results of Saturday s professional matches. Another popular type of gambling stcrotypically for middle-aged working class women is bingo. Nonconformist religious groups sec chapter I 3 traditionally frown upon gambling and their disapproval has had some influence. Perhaps this is why Britain did not have a national lottery until 1994. But if people want to gamble then they will. For instance before the national lottery started the British gambled 2 30 000 on which company would be given the licence to run it The country s big bookmakers are willing to offer odds on almost anything at all if asked who will be the next Labour party leader Will it rain during the Wimbledon tennis tournament Will it snow on Christmas Day All of these offer opportunities for a flutter . QUESTIONS 1 The manager of Liverpool Football Chib during the 1970s once said Football is not a matter of life and death to me - it s more important than that Do you think his comment is typical of the British altitude to sport the traditional one the modern one both or neither 2 Cricket s great drawback is that it cannot be played during or immediately after rain because the grass is too wet. In the early 1990s it was suggested that first-class cricket should be played on plastic surfaces so that play could begin again as soon as the rain had stopped. English cricket enthusiasts were horrified by this suggestion. One member of the MCC Marylebone Cricket Club the club which partly controls the sport in England commented. The man must have been drunk when he thought of it . How do you explain this extreme reaction 3 In 199 3 Roddy Doyle a winner of the literary Booker Prize sec chapter 22 made regular appearances on a television football programme. In terms of the history of football in Britain how .

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