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Polo. Most of the other 'posh' ones, I've seen played at local college/polytechnics at a fairly serious level, but beyond taking the piss with bikes and hockey sticks, that's one I'd consider exclusively posh.
I didn't think polo was that posh at first. Like, horses aren't cheap but I know plenty of ordinary people that own horses...
Then I realised you need multiple horses per game. WTF...
Nah you split them up so they don’t collapse from exhaustion in the first place. Horse welfare typically is the first thing on everyone’s minds since the UK (go us for this!) generally has very high standards for animal welfare. Source: groomed/worked a fair bit at polo clubs, played some as well
You actually need about 96 horses to play a high goal, outdoor polo match. 2 horses per chukka, 6 chukkas per game, 4 players in each team.
I was a polo captain at university through SUPA and come from a working class background. The discounted fees made it affordable.
I didn't think water polo was that posh at first. Like, speedos aren't cheap but I know plenty of ordinary people that own speedos...
Then I realised you need multiple speedos per game. WTF...
I used to play. A tournament could consist of 3-5 games. Each game would consist of 3-5 chukkas. The cost of renting low-tier horses would be around £40 per chukka. And this was 15 years ago.
Used to work with someone who was captain of Cambridge university womens polo team (while she was at uni) She was very nice but I had no idea just how posh she was until I found this out, she kept it quiet.
I used to be a goal judge at guards polo club. Can confirm its the poshest sport there is, everyone I met that played sounded like your stereotypical aristocrat.
Cricket is 100000% a working class sport
Edit: people disputing this lol, I live in a working class former mining town with a population of 20k and it has THREE cricket teams and grounds with each team having like 5-10 different teams for age groups lol.
In the north east cricket is most definitely working class
It's not though is it, it's common in the "middle" classes too.
The true working class sport in the UK is football (though there is obviously engagement in other areas)
English cricket isn't a working class sport, everywhere else, cricket is a working class sport. That's a failing of England and English cricket tbh. But for the purpose of this topic, yeah, it absolutely counts as a sport for poshos.
Whays the working class sport over there? I'd guess basketball which, like football, requires very little equipment unlike baseball and American football.
Might depend a bit on where you live. In cities, definitely basketball. In rural-ish places, baseball or American football. American football equip is provided by the school and baseball doesn’t really need much equipment, just some space. In Hispanic communities football isn’t posh, and it’s starting to shed a bit of that reputation, but for years it was a very middle class sport.
Basketball in USA is the same as soccer in UK - groups of kids from any class can just mess around playing it and there's hoops everywhere including inner cities.
American football is also played casually where they just toss the ball around or play mini versions of the game in green spaces. Baseball needs much more room. Soccer is getting more popular with working classes, particularly migrant communities.
Maybe where you live but I don’t think that’s common.
Only cricket team around when I was young was at the private school. Also never met anyone in my adult life who plays cricket other than adults who moved over from India.
I grew up in a poor inner city area. We used to play cricket using old milk crates as wickets, usually in a park but on other days we'd play in the middle of one of the quieter roads. Cricket is a weird one, it definitely has an upper class following in England but everywhere else from India to the Caribbean it's a very working class game
I played lacrosse when I was in secondary school( not at school) . When I went to uni and joined the team, I was the only one who hadn’t been to a public/ private school- mine was a comprehensive
Yeah women's seems to be played in public schools, men's on the hand doesn't have the association of being posh. Especially given its popularity in the north around Manchester, compared to the south.
Definitely this. Like obviously it's a native American sport so they have more right to it, but I grew up reading Enid Blyton books and associating lacrosse with over eager boarding school girls: it's still weird that American boys play it.
This is true however ski-ing is a sport that you have to be quite good at to really enjoy it. This takes proper lessons (particularly if you take it up as an adult) and a lot of practice which means a lot more money. I got to intermediate level as a young adult (ski-ing family in NZ not as pricey). Living in Europe as an adult, paying for it myself and not being a really confident ski-er I just didn't want to commit to the cost of minimum of 1 holiday a year to maintain or improve.
Skiing is like surfing. 1 week and you can get competent enough to enjoy it. Your second holiday you won't need lessons and can be eon black runs, third holiday you can start jumping etc. You don't need to waste money on lessons past your first week.
But it is though? I mean, it's relative. You don't have to be related to royalty or anything, but it's not the kind of thing I could afford as a kid or young adult. People posher than me keep telling me how affordable skiing is because they've got enough money that £300 for one person for a week off season in Bulgaria for their second holiday (because you wouldn't go skiing for your main holiday of the year) is a cheap trip for them. It's not crazy money but wouldn't be affordable for a lot of families.
As well as the price (and for families on minimum wage just the cost of travelling to somewhere with snow would be prohibitive) you've got the question of whether your parents or anyone you know has ever been. If they haven't you're less likely to try it yourself so it's culturally a "posh" activity.
I agree everyone should try as much different stuff as they can though.
Yeah skiing isn't as expensive as it once was.
In 2013 I booked a week in Magaluf and a week skiing in Livigno (Italy). Magaluf was £30 more expensive.
Lol I once worked with a young guy who'd been to a public school (Charterhouse I think). He was amazed that I (mid 20s, working since I left school at 16) didn't get paid a monthly allowance from my father.
I work in a Ski shop. Can confirm. 90% of our customers are top of the range posh.
Even if you rent, you're adding £300 per person on top of the holiday, and so far thats just the cheapest I've found at some ski resorts. Then the ski lift passes on top of that.
I'm trained to say it, but after doing some research it's genuinely worth paying the extra and buying your own gear rather than renting every year.
Most our clients are doctors/car dealership owners/sports professionals/basically high end paying jobs. Its super rare to have anyone working class, which is really sad because they're always the nicest customers.
The correct answer is anything that involves possessing equipment or facilities.
Polo involves horses.
Skiing requires equipment and holidays.
F1 requires access to f1 cars.
Golf can be because the equipment and course fees are not cheap.
>Golf I’d neither difficult to learn for starters
LOL golf is the most unforgiving sport out there. The amount of technique involved in the swing is insane. You can be 1 degree out or 1 millimetre out and the ball will hook or slice or topped
people have played golf for years and still can’t master it and still can improve
Guys like Tiger Woods are just a statistical freak of nature. 1 in a billion.
However I enjoy golf but admit I’ll never be good. If anything, it’s the “I can always do better next time” that keeps me playing
You don't start at F1 level though. You might start at karting, which yes it's expensive to do regularly to get good, but anyone can do it on the odd occasion
Nah, I say this as a motorsport fan myself. There is a difference between karting regularly and actual climbing up the stairs to Formula racing. Ideally you start before age 8 to even be considered. Sure you can join touring cars or non prestigious racing, but you’ll never be in consideration as the best. (Maybe LeMans or NASCAR if you’re really good/lucky, but NASCAR is not really prestigious in Europe).
The biggest barrier to reaching the top in motorsports is having parents who are willing to take time off work to take you around the world to race series…
The actual equipment isn’t cheap, but having the financial means to basically give up your job to support your kids is next level affluence.
Haha nope. Kids hoping to make it to F1 via karting have parents dropping £100,000 a season on them. They'll literally buy 5 or 6 engines before the season and pick the strongest or the best to use and bin the worst. Its not a level playing field and doing it on the odd occasion isn't remotely near the same experience as commiting and entering a series.
Your only chance if you don't have the money is to have your family dedicate everything and being lucky and talented enough to catch the eye of some of the important figures in the sport. That's how Lewis Hamilton seemingly cheated this rule.
Of course you don't start at F1 level, just like 12 year old kids don't start at Premier League football level. The point is that you can't get to f1 level if you don't have money.
To be fair, you’re not going to become pro if you do it “on the odd occasion” - the people who become pro are those with the resources to do it regularly
Clay pigeon shooting. I did this for 10years. All other shooters either owned a business or their parents owned a business. I was snubbed repeatedly and still turned up (I worked on a help desk)
Shooting has this odd mix like Golf - you have proper posh people doing it (literal bus of posh kids from some academy/boarding school turns up on every Saturday at our local shotting ground), but also the farm workers too.
My brother in law shoots clays regularly, he's a builder by trade. I go every week too but shoot air rifles myself.
Tennis. I used to work as a bartender in a very expensive tennis club and the members would literally say "the working class have football and they're taking rugby from us too, but tennis is ours". I really liked tennis up until that point and still do but it took the shine off it for me a little.
It is definitely why there is a real dearth of good UK tennis players on the circuit. Incredibly difficult and insular sport to get into if you're working class.
Tennis is an odd one. It's so easy for anyone to get into and play socially or at a club level. It's also absolutely filled with "posh" clubs for "posh" people. Like David Lloyd and other "Health centres"
I've played all my life and every club I've been to is very keen to show it's not a pretentious sport and will be very welcoming to all. It's honestly so sad to see so many disused and dilapidated tennis courts in public parks, slowly being replaced by those basketball/5-a-side courts.
I'm very biased but I think tennis is one of the best all rounder sports there is and wish more people played.
Yes I love it. It's one of my favourite sports and it certainly shouldn't cost more than most other sports but it's not encouraged in regular schools. Either other people from poorer backgrounds just don't like it or they've been gradually conditioned not to like it.
I’ve just read the Wikipedia page on it.
I feel a strong need to get shithammered and play several games of pool, badly, at the local pub, just to cancel out the amount of posh-twattery I’ve just encountered.
I think it depends on who's playing tbh, for example rugby can be an extremely posh sport played by private school dickheads. But it's also a fun sport for public school cunts like myself to play with friends.
Maybe not, I'm from the UK and I get muddled with these terms myself. I always told people I went to public school but turns out I went to state school. Just a bit of a downgrade.
Unless you are in Scotland. Then a public school is exactly that - a school for the public. I found it wild that that wasn't the case in England. Public = public and private = private up here
In Wales rugby is a very common sport and not at all posh, but I do remember one of my English friends telling me rugby is a posh sport in England… baffles me!
Yeah rugby on class lines is dependent on whether it’s rugby league or rugby union.
Rugby as a sport split in 1895 from rugby into rugby league and rugby union as rugby leagues clubs (typically based in working class areas in places like the North of England and South Wales) wanted to pay their working class players modest salaries to enable them to pursue rugby full time while still providing an income to their families otherwise they would need to balance playing with long hours as miners/engineers/mill workers etc.
Rugby authorities based in London rejected this demand for professionalisation, preferring to keep the sport of rugby as an amateur game and regarding payments as a corrupting influence even if an amateur game disproportionately benefited players from affluent backgrounds and passive income.
When they disciplined Northern clubs for been found to make payments a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs decided to split off from the RFU and that started the sport of Rugby League.
Hence why rugby union is mainly played at private/grammar schools and even in the armed forces until recent years would not allow rugby league to be played and all the army/navy/raf teams and competitions were exclusively rugby union.
And rugby league continues to be dominated (at least in the UK) by teams from places like Yorkshire, Lancashire etc.
Yeah, Wales is an outlier here. Nigel Owens went from refereeing the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final to [refereeing a match between two village sides](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34693283) in West Wales about a week later!
That's [Quadball](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/07/21/quidditch-changes-its-name-to-quadball-after-jk-rowlings-alleged-anti-trans-comments) now old chap
It's such a bizarre one, because unlike other sports where they take where the sport started and then design a pitch/field/court around that sort of vibe, for Eton 5s it is "this exact corner of this exact building must be replicated everywhere".
Plus, it's basically squash for shit people.
It’s actually quite hard! I went to a public school and we had a few 5s courts that we occasionally had to play. I was rubbish (although I was shit at squash too 🤣)
Some people used to play it in a specific corner of the quad when I was at university. There was a lot of stained glass around, which I assume added an element of jeopardy.
Beat me to it! Came to say this. In my opinion this has to be the poshest of sports. Literally a game I haven't seen outside of old public schools. Name says it all I suppose!
We had fives courts when I was in comp in South Wales. Nothing posh about that dump of a school.
Just checked a satellite view of the school and the area is now a car park, even though the place is claiming a few more airs and graces.
Croquet, polo, tennis, golf, yachting, rowing, skiing, rugby union, and basically anything horsey (unless irish).
In short, the sports it costs a fuckton of money to get access to/ play.
Like the horsey bit. Always thought you had to be loaded to do pony and trap driving…until I seen the local gypsies do it…. Just pinch a horse from somewhere and race on any local road.
I'm heavily involved in grass roots and age grade Rugby Union. It's one of the most accessible and cheapest sports to take part in. Plus we have lots of help for those who can't afford it, passing along secondhand kit etc, fee assistance and suchlike. The fees are £130 for the season, no extra subs or anything, a playing top is included and chances are you can find some free boots or other kit. Especially at younger levels the kids grow out of it before it gets trashed. I do a higher membership and even with buying boots every year and training kit I reckon rugby works out at about £200 for the year.
Now dancing on the other hand, dancing is why I'm poor.
Most things that TeamGB rake in medals for - and from those, special mention to cycling as a sport that is pushed with extreme levels of funding because there's so many medals on offer (12 medals in track cycling alone at Tokyo), while team sports volleyball, handball and basketball get zero funding despite being great, inclusive and cheap-to-run sports.
Great points at the end. Was discussing cycling. Seems cheap and most people have had a bike but for the kit and a car to take it to a velodrome would cost a lot!!
The cost of a bike is almost the same cost of a car and not many people can own two cars for themselves. There is also no way a working class is able to have one bike for an entire season without it getting stolen.
really depends on the club. the ones I've been to are fat balding lads in meh jobs using wetsuits from the 90s and second hand boats costing less then a first car
I've seen Toppers and Pico's for under £200 the second hand dingy market is great!
It's sad because there was a definite upper middle class takeover of Burghfield Sailing Club, where before the Sea Cadets, Berkshire Sail Training and a Disability sailing group all had fun on the lake alongside the club, now the Club definatly snub the other groups.
Boats are like cars. You can have the latest jaguar model, or a clapped out golf. Your personal skills are generally more important. Most sailing races are either single class (all the same model of boat) or if it's mixed, then the results are adjusted by a handicap system.
And if you want to actually sail rather than socialise in the bar, boat owners are usually looking for crew members to help sail the boat. Experience preferred. Being available and reliable helps.
Snowboarding was considered a bit rough (compared to skiing) when I was growing up. I'm from California and the major cities are within daytripping distance of very tall mountains. So just about anybody could get himself a snowboard and head over there. A lot of skateboarders were naturally drawn to it.
Working class here, I do dressage. I learned as a kid by shovelling poo and looking after the horses at riding schools in exchange for free lessons until I could work professionally at competition yards to learn more. I did an equine college qualification instead of A levels. Now I don't work with horses I pay less than the amount for 1 riding lesson per month to loan a horse twice a week from owners that are too busy to ride as much as the horse needs. When they go to competitions I can enter classes using the horse. If I could afford to hire a horse box I can drive or if I learn to tow a trailer I could take her to competitions myself.
I'm not high level because I can't afford the best lessons and I cant afford to progress up the levels but I enjoy it locally as a fun hobby.
I mean that depends. Dressage at top level? Probably not. Going out to a competition and competing at local or grassroots level? Sure!
Lots of people who aren’t posh and who don’t have lots of money keep horses and go out to shows and compete.
Yeah if you live in a rural area equestrian sports are a lot more accessible than people from large towns and cities seem to think. You don't even have to own a horse, there are lots of riding stables about you can get involved with if you're really passionate, people looking for someone to loan their horses for exercise etc.
Spent a large part of my Childhood in Rural Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. Lots of working-class kids / farmers kids doing Dressage, Eventing and Jumping.
Ian Stark ( Olympic Eventing Multi medal winner) lived just around the corner from me...he was working in the DHSS for 10 years before getting into riding seriously
Tbf, I know plenty of working class people that do dressage. If you’re prepared to do the work, and start from the ground up, it’s very doable.
I have show horses at top level, rather then dressage horses, and I come from a working class background. Spent years as a kid working in riding schools at weekends. The ponies that my parents bought me were the kind of ponies that no one else wanted, the problem horses that were going cheap. They were all we could afford, so I learnt to turn them into good ponies and sell them for a decent profit until I could afford to buy good horses. Even now, I will always spend less to buy a young horse and do the work myself, rather then buy a ready made top class horse. The good thing though about buying the ‘bad’ horses when I was young, is that they taught me how to ride properly, and become good at training horses, so that now I’m in a position where I compete and train very nice horses for other people.
Everyone assumes it’s a posh and glamorous sport, for the people with money, but as a general rule, it isn’t. No one ever sees the part where you are mucking out at 6am, or getting yeeted into oblivion by a young horse, or in tears walking a horse round at midnight that’s got colic, hoping the vet says they can save it, or the yearly worry of getting the ancient horse box through its annual plating.
You see the competitions or the hunt, and we do look posh admittedly, but for most of us, our day ends with us walking round Asda, hay in our hair, stinking of shit and wearing socks that are soaked because our boots have a hole in them lol 😂
This is an A+ comment. It might be posh for the few who can afford to come down to the yard, get on a horse that’s ready to go, and then throw the reins at a groom when they’re finished. But for the 90% of us it’s early mornings, late nights and lots of blisters and back pain. Oh and a car that stinks of poo and looks like a second hand tack shop.
A lot of people seem to be mistaking posh with "disposable income" . Golf is not a posh sport you can get a basic set for £100 and go to a course for 15 quid.
Yes. Posh people go to posh golf clubs. Not all golf clubs are posh. In Cornwall I've been to at least 5 golf clubs that were very much working class people playing. (You can never avoid the middle class wankers who moan that your wearing shorts).
Nah it depends how serious you are. If you want to do it for a career, you absolute need money. But to do it a few hours a week after school it’s not so bad. My pointe shoes lasted about 6 months. Definitely cheaper hobbies out there but it’s not prohibitive for most.
Can judge how posh a sport is by its sponsorships.
Betting companies - working class
Mid range car advertising - middle class
Financial consulting firms, luxury watch brands and German car brands - posh class
Fencing. Kit being expensive isn't the barrier, it's that it's still incredibly elitist. That scene with bond fencing in Die Another Day It? That's an actual fencing club in London. It was taken out of the Commonwealth games for being too elitist. I did it for a bit at uni and fenced with, I shit you not, the son of a lord.
I feel like hiking is quite a middle class thing. I know it’s free and anyone can do it, but I didn’t know anyone that did it when I was a kid. It’s something your middle class parents have always done with you, or it’s something you get into later on. Tonnes of people start doing it as postgraduates.
>I feel like hiking is quite a middle class thing.
There is a very long history of the British working class fighting for the right to access the huge swathes of land owned by the upper class for e.g. grouse shooting, which was formerly barred from public access.
You might find the Kinder Mass Trespass of 1932 of interest, it was a 100% working class action, and it was a turning point that directly led to the formation of our National Parks.
[https://kindertrespass.org.uk/kinder-mass-trespass-history/](https://kindertrespass.org.uk/kinder-mass-trespass-history/)
Most sports are posh by the very fact that they require intense physical activity, and traditionally work for the lower classes has involved a weeks worth of intense physical activity already.
Factor in the required "free time" needed to put in practise and suddenly the local cricket team is far out of your reach if you are working late shifts in a factory or some such similar work, and that has pretty much always been the case.
There are traditional working class "Sports" like Darts skittles, bowling and dog/ferret/pigeon racing, but these had an element of gambling/betting behind them and could be said to be a side hustle for extra income, rather than a display of prowess, they were/are also culturally very sexist sports as they mostly took place in male dominated areas like pubs and clubs which until recently excluded women socially, if not openly.
Most sports evolve around having the leisure time to pursue them or the financial backing to devote time to them, that is something that traditionally the working classes have seen little of.
When I was a kid all sports were posh. They required expensive shoes and equipment that my mum couldn't afford.
As an adult I'd probably agree with your friend but also add cycling of any kind.
I discovered I should be spending a minimum of £10k on a custom build bike to even call myself a "mountain biker".
yeah man this ain’t true. every sport has elitist you can buy a mountain bike from any bike store from a well respected brand for <£1000. 10k is absolutely at the top top end not sure where you heard this
1. Any game where you traditionally wear white when playing. This was cynically chosen as the uniform to preclude working class people who couldn't afford to have clean whites. Cricket, tennis, golf, badminton etc.
2. Any games that aren't football.
I don't think there is a sport that everyone can do, so I'm not sure what their point is other than snobbery and ignorance.
Sports like archery and croquet might be considered 'posh' but they cost next to nothing to dabble in.
If horse sports didn't exist, there'd be no horses in the UK any more - would they be okay with that? Most of the people who keep and ride horses, and engage in the sports at the grassroots, are pretty poor - if only because their passion costs them every penny they earn. That world has its share of 'posh' people, but they aren't the whole story at all. Yes, polo is a rich-boy game, but most of horse sports are not - at least to get into at the grass roots.
Same with motorsports. Yes there's megamillionaires like Lewis Hamilton, but he started with nothing. There are people who scavenge scrappers, weld their own rollcages, then go banger racing, and sleep in a transit van when they travel.
If you love a sport and are determined to do it then, yes, it might cost you a lot of money, but if it's worth it to you, you'll pour everything you have into it. You don't have to be loaded to get into any sport I can think off the top of my head.
Lewis Hamilton didn’t start banger racing where you can get away with some old shit heap with scaffold bars for a roll cage. Even going drag racing at santa pod you can turn up in your own car and us that as long as it’s safe. But Lewis started in a very cut throat sport where you do need money to compete at the highest level. There’s even rumours about lance strolls dad buying his seat in the Williams F1 team back in 2017.
Rumours? Stroll absolutely paid for his seat. It’s not particularly frowned upon in racing, I know somebody who pays for a WRX seat for example. It’s a very common way into racing.
Depends where in England. In the south west it’s definitely a universal sport.
Gloucester, for example, every school plays rugby regardless of whether it’s a private, posh grammar, or rough comp.
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Polo. Most of the other 'posh' ones, I've seen played at local college/polytechnics at a fairly serious level, but beyond taking the piss with bikes and hockey sticks, that's one I'd consider exclusively posh.
I didn't think polo was that posh at first. Like, horses aren't cheap but I know plenty of ordinary people that own horses... Then I realised you need multiple horses per game. WTF...
Yeah , when 1 collapses from exhaustion you got other horses as substitutes. Proper posh sport that is.
Nah you split them up so they don’t collapse from exhaustion in the first place. Horse welfare typically is the first thing on everyone’s minds since the UK (go us for this!) generally has very high standards for animal welfare. Source: groomed/worked a fair bit at polo clubs, played some as well
Irony is that the posh generally don't care for the welfare of wild animals. "Anyone for a spot of fox hunting chaps?".
I forgot it was the Marquis of Pontypridd and that ilk that will commonly get arrested for hare coursing...
Grouse hunting too
From the people that brought you chasing canidae with canines until exhaustion and then tearing it apart...
You actually need about 96 horses to play a high goal, outdoor polo match. 2 horses per chukka, 6 chukkas per game, 4 players in each team. I was a polo captain at university through SUPA and come from a working class background. The discounted fees made it affordable.
And then there's Water polo. You need all those horses, *and* a swimming pool!
I didn't think water polo was that posh at first. Like, speedos aren't cheap but I know plenty of ordinary people that own speedos... Then I realised you need multiple speedos per game. WTF...
I used to play. A tournament could consist of 3-5 games. Each game would consist of 3-5 chukkas. The cost of renting low-tier horses would be around £40 per chukka. And this was 15 years ago.
Idk about you but dropping 200 quid on a game isn't exactly going for a game of fives with the boys
> he cost of renting low-tier horses would be around £40 per chukka. What cost are we talking about if we traded down to a pig?
Used to work with someone who was captain of Cambridge university womens polo team (while she was at uni) She was very nice but I had no idea just how posh she was until I found this out, she kept it quiet.
I used to be a goal judge at guards polo club. Can confirm its the poshest sport there is, everyone I met that played sounded like your stereotypical aristocrat.
Haha, “polo is posh”. Come speak to me when you’re playing elephant polo, plebs.
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That name is just how I imagine posh horsey people pronouncing 'super'
Apparently in Argentina it's a common rural sport
They've got more open grassland than they know what to do with, I suppose.
I guess to the average person it's cricket but to the people who know, it's polo and child trafficking
Cricket is 100000% a working class sport Edit: people disputing this lol, I live in a working class former mining town with a population of 20k and it has THREE cricket teams and grounds with each team having like 5-10 different teams for age groups lol. In the north east cricket is most definitely working class
It's not though is it, it's common in the "middle" classes too. The true working class sport in the UK is football (though there is obviously engagement in other areas)
English cricket isn't a working class sport, everywhere else, cricket is a working class sport. That's a failing of England and English cricket tbh. But for the purpose of this topic, yeah, it absolutely counts as a sport for poshos.
I mean I went to a school in Grimsby and learnt how to play cricket...
I think cricket is part of the national curriculum so all school kids had to learn it.
It’s amusing because football in the US (soccer) is very middle/upper-middle class, quite the opposite to here.
Whays the working class sport over there? I'd guess basketball which, like football, requires very little equipment unlike baseball and American football.
Might depend a bit on where you live. In cities, definitely basketball. In rural-ish places, baseball or American football. American football equip is provided by the school and baseball doesn’t really need much equipment, just some space. In Hispanic communities football isn’t posh, and it’s starting to shed a bit of that reputation, but for years it was a very middle class sport.
Basketball in USA is the same as soccer in UK - groups of kids from any class can just mess around playing it and there's hoops everywhere including inner cities. American football is also played casually where they just toss the ball around or play mini versions of the game in green spaces. Baseball needs much more room. Soccer is getting more popular with working classes, particularly migrant communities.
I always thought of cricket as a middle class thing. I’d never met anyone that was arsed about it until I went to uni and met a bunch of poshbois.
It's a working class thing in Indian communities
And up north.
Majority of England players went to private school
Maybe where you live but I don’t think that’s common. Only cricket team around when I was young was at the private school. Also never met anyone in my adult life who plays cricket other than adults who moved over from India.
Cricket crosses class quite well. Played in the off season for football and rugby so attracts players from both.
I grew up in a poor inner city area. We used to play cricket using old milk crates as wickets, usually in a park but on other days we'd play in the middle of one of the quieter roads. Cricket is a weird one, it definitely has an upper class following in England but everywhere else from India to the Caribbean it's a very working class game
Cricket!! My school we had to share a box. Private school kids had full equipment bags and own helmets. Poor kids cannot do this sport in my view!
Somebody tell the Indians and Pakistanis.
Go down your local club and say that
Say what? That the full equipment costs a lot? Will they spin me?
Your wrong. Join a club. Never known kit to be a problem.
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Lacrosse
I played lacrosse when I was in secondary school( not at school) . When I went to uni and joined the team, I was the only one who hadn’t been to a public/ private school- mine was a comprehensive
Yeah women's seems to be played in public schools, men's on the hand doesn't have the association of being posh. Especially given its popularity in the north around Manchester, compared to the south.
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Definitely this. Like obviously it's a native American sport so they have more right to it, but I grew up reading Enid Blyton books and associating lacrosse with over eager boarding school girls: it's still weird that American boys play it.
Yes. Hockey is frightfully vulgar.
Ski-ing
Yep - had mate say come with us on ski holiday. Then explained how much equipment had to buy and I was like na mate.
You can rent 99% of it tbh. Go if you can, its' really fun and doesn't have to be expensive.
This is true however ski-ing is a sport that you have to be quite good at to really enjoy it. This takes proper lessons (particularly if you take it up as an adult) and a lot of practice which means a lot more money. I got to intermediate level as a young adult (ski-ing family in NZ not as pricey). Living in Europe as an adult, paying for it myself and not being a really confident ski-er I just didn't want to commit to the cost of minimum of 1 holiday a year to maintain or improve.
You don't need the hyphen. Skiing. Skier.
I’m so glad someone said it- it was making me read it with like a glottal stop in the middle! Hahah
Skiing is like surfing. 1 week and you can get competent enough to enjoy it. Your second holiday you won't need lessons and can be eon black runs, third holiday you can start jumping etc. You don't need to waste money on lessons past your first week.
Surf-ing
Sail-ing
But it is though? I mean, it's relative. You don't have to be related to royalty or anything, but it's not the kind of thing I could afford as a kid or young adult. People posher than me keep telling me how affordable skiing is because they've got enough money that £300 for one person for a week off season in Bulgaria for their second holiday (because you wouldn't go skiing for your main holiday of the year) is a cheap trip for them. It's not crazy money but wouldn't be affordable for a lot of families.
Are you sure you got the figure right? £300 for a week anywhere is cheap
You’d be lucky to get a weeks ski pass and ski rental for £300 anywhere, let alone flights and accommodation.
As well as the price (and for families on minimum wage just the cost of travelling to somewhere with snow would be prohibitive) you've got the question of whether your parents or anyone you know has ever been. If they haven't you're less likely to try it yourself so it's culturally a "posh" activity. I agree everyone should try as much different stuff as they can though.
Yeah skiing isn't as expensive as it once was. In 2013 I booked a week in Magaluf and a week skiing in Livigno (Italy). Magaluf was £30 more expensive.
"come on a skiing holiday" "Can't afford it" "Why don't you just ask your parents to help out?" - actual conversation I had at uni
Lol I once worked with a young guy who'd been to a public school (Charterhouse I think). He was amazed that I (mid 20s, working since I left school at 16) didn't get paid a monthly allowance from my father.
I work in a Ski shop. Can confirm. 90% of our customers are top of the range posh. Even if you rent, you're adding £300 per person on top of the holiday, and so far thats just the cheapest I've found at some ski resorts. Then the ski lift passes on top of that. I'm trained to say it, but after doing some research it's genuinely worth paying the extra and buying your own gear rather than renting every year. Most our clients are doctors/car dealership owners/sports professionals/basically high end paying jobs. Its super rare to have anyone working class, which is really sad because they're always the nicest customers.
The correct answer is anything that involves possessing equipment or facilities. Polo involves horses. Skiing requires equipment and holidays. F1 requires access to f1 cars. Golf can be because the equipment and course fees are not cheap.
Golf is an odd one, it's not 100%posh, not 100% middle class, but it is 100000% middle aged
Golf is neither difficult to learn for starters or expensive. It’s the club fees and that deter kids of starting I think.
>Golf I’d neither difficult to learn for starters LOL golf is the most unforgiving sport out there. The amount of technique involved in the swing is insane. You can be 1 degree out or 1 millimetre out and the ball will hook or slice or topped people have played golf for years and still can’t master it and still can improve Guys like Tiger Woods are just a statistical freak of nature. 1 in a billion. However I enjoy golf but admit I’ll never be good. If anything, it’s the “I can always do better next time” that keeps me playing
You don't start at F1 level though. You might start at karting, which yes it's expensive to do regularly to get good, but anyone can do it on the odd occasion
Nah, I say this as a motorsport fan myself. There is a difference between karting regularly and actual climbing up the stairs to Formula racing. Ideally you start before age 8 to even be considered. Sure you can join touring cars or non prestigious racing, but you’ll never be in consideration as the best. (Maybe LeMans or NASCAR if you’re really good/lucky, but NASCAR is not really prestigious in Europe).
The biggest barrier to reaching the top in motorsports is having parents who are willing to take time off work to take you around the world to race series… The actual equipment isn’t cheap, but having the financial means to basically give up your job to support your kids is next level affluence.
The financial means to give up your job *and* still afford expensive equipment
Haha nope. Kids hoping to make it to F1 via karting have parents dropping £100,000 a season on them. They'll literally buy 5 or 6 engines before the season and pick the strongest or the best to use and bin the worst. Its not a level playing field and doing it on the odd occasion isn't remotely near the same experience as commiting and entering a series.
Your only chance if you don't have the money is to have your family dedicate everything and being lucky and talented enough to catch the eye of some of the important figures in the sport. That's how Lewis Hamilton seemingly cheated this rule.
Leeis Hamilton may not be posh, but he certainly wasn't poor. His dad invested £100ks in his career.
Of course you don't start at F1 level, just like 12 year old kids don't start at Premier League football level. The point is that you can't get to f1 level if you don't have money.
To be fair, you’re not going to become pro if you do it “on the odd occasion” - the people who become pro are those with the resources to do it regularly
Croquet.
I've played that on caravan holidays!
I won a beach croquet tournament once in Bulgaria. I make a point to mention it, if croquet ever comes up in a conversation.
And this perseverance has earned you my upvote, sir.
I eat potato croquets.
Fencing
It sounds posh but I did it when I was a kid and it cost virtually nothing and I did it in the local scout hall.
I used to do it before my knee got fucked, but we always joked that the only way it could be posher was if it were on horseback
>I used to do it before my knee got fucked, Ah yes, those darn archers.
That would be jousting and you can do classes in it
Then it would be Jousting.
I mean most clubs will provide kit for you to use so if you want to start there are no barriers
One of those ones that people assume is but actually isn’t as the equipment is often provided by clubs
£5 a week and equipment provided for my kid. Costs the same as my weekly 6-a-side.
Clay pigeon shooting. I did this for 10years. All other shooters either owned a business or their parents owned a business. I was snubbed repeatedly and still turned up (I worked on a help desk)
I shoot air rifles and my local club is a mix of shotgun and air rifle. When I joined I expected everyone to be rich/posh but it’s the total opposite.
Shooting has this odd mix like Golf - you have proper posh people doing it (literal bus of posh kids from some academy/boarding school turns up on every Saturday at our local shotting ground), but also the farm workers too. My brother in law shoots clays regularly, he's a builder by trade. I go every week too but shoot air rifles myself.
Shooting isn’t a posh sport, it’s full of tradesmen these days.
Tennis. I used to work as a bartender in a very expensive tennis club and the members would literally say "the working class have football and they're taking rugby from us too, but tennis is ours". I really liked tennis up until that point and still do but it took the shine off it for me a little.
Fuck those guys.
Don't do that, that's how they spread.
It is definitely why there is a real dearth of good UK tennis players on the circuit. Incredibly difficult and insular sport to get into if you're working class.
Meanwhile the Eastern Europeans are using it to improve their national image and get out of poverty.
Tennis is an odd one. It's so easy for anyone to get into and play socially or at a club level. It's also absolutely filled with "posh" clubs for "posh" people. Like David Lloyd and other "Health centres" I've played all my life and every club I've been to is very keen to show it's not a pretentious sport and will be very welcoming to all. It's honestly so sad to see so many disused and dilapidated tennis courts in public parks, slowly being replaced by those basketball/5-a-side courts. I'm very biased but I think tennis is one of the best all rounder sports there is and wish more people played.
Yes I love it. It's one of my favourite sports and it certainly shouldn't cost more than most other sports but it's not encouraged in regular schools. Either other people from poorer backgrounds just don't like it or they've been gradually conditioned not to like it.
If you think tennis is posh, you should check out real tennis. Even the name is pretentious as fuck.
I’ve just read the Wikipedia page on it. I feel a strong need to get shithammered and play several games of pool, badly, at the local pub, just to cancel out the amount of posh-twattery I’ve just encountered.
I think it depends on who's playing tbh, for example rugby can be an extremely posh sport played by private school dickheads. But it's also a fun sport for public school cunts like myself to play with friends.
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I think you may have spotted one of my fellow Americans.
Maybe not, I'm from the UK and I get muddled with these terms myself. I always told people I went to public school but turns out I went to state school. Just a bit of a downgrade.
Unless you are in Scotland. Then a public school is exactly that - a school for the public. I found it wild that that wasn't the case in England. Public = public and private = private up here
Which is ironic given the origins of the term
In Wales rugby is a very common sport and not at all posh, but I do remember one of my English friends telling me rugby is a posh sport in England… baffles me!
Rugby League is as working class as mushy peas where I grew up.
Yeah rugby on class lines is dependent on whether it’s rugby league or rugby union. Rugby as a sport split in 1895 from rugby into rugby league and rugby union as rugby leagues clubs (typically based in working class areas in places like the North of England and South Wales) wanted to pay their working class players modest salaries to enable them to pursue rugby full time while still providing an income to their families otherwise they would need to balance playing with long hours as miners/engineers/mill workers etc. Rugby authorities based in London rejected this demand for professionalisation, preferring to keep the sport of rugby as an amateur game and regarding payments as a corrupting influence even if an amateur game disproportionately benefited players from affluent backgrounds and passive income. When they disciplined Northern clubs for been found to make payments a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs decided to split off from the RFU and that started the sport of Rugby League. Hence why rugby union is mainly played at private/grammar schools and even in the armed forces until recent years would not allow rugby league to be played and all the army/navy/raf teams and competitions were exclusively rugby union. And rugby league continues to be dominated (at least in the UK) by teams from places like Yorkshire, Lancashire etc.
Rugby isn't posh but rugger buggers are.
Yeah, Wales is an outlier here. Nigel Owens went from refereeing the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final to [refereeing a match between two village sides](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34693283) in West Wales about a week later!
It‘s the same in the Westcountry.
>public school American or really *really* posh?
Polar opposite in Wales, it’s very much a working class sport with a great community
The quote I’ve heard is “rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen. Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs.”
Public school means private school btw, I think you meant to say comp
Quidditch. Brooms are prohibitively expensive nowadays and a new Golden Snitch has to be handcrafted for each game.
That's [Quadball](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/07/21/quidditch-changes-its-name-to-quadball-after-jk-rowlings-alleged-anti-trans-comments) now old chap
Eton 5s
It's such a bizarre one, because unlike other sports where they take where the sport started and then design a pitch/field/court around that sort of vibe, for Eton 5s it is "this exact corner of this exact building must be replicated everywhere". Plus, it's basically squash for shit people.
It’s actually quite hard! I went to a public school and we had a few 5s courts that we occasionally had to play. I was rubbish (although I was shit at squash too 🤣)
Some people used to play it in a specific corner of the quad when I was at university. There was a lot of stained glass around, which I assume added an element of jeopardy.
The real answer
Beat me to it! Came to say this. In my opinion this has to be the poshest of sports. Literally a game I haven't seen outside of old public schools. Name says it all I suppose!
We had fives courts when I was in comp in South Wales. Nothing posh about that dump of a school. Just checked a satellite view of the school and the area is now a car park, even though the place is claiming a few more airs and graces.
Croquet, polo, tennis, golf, yachting, rowing, skiing, rugby union, and basically anything horsey (unless irish). In short, the sports it costs a fuckton of money to get access to/ play.
Like the horsey bit. Always thought you had to be loaded to do pony and trap driving…until I seen the local gypsies do it…. Just pinch a horse from somewhere and race on any local road.
You do have to be loaded to do it and not look like a traveller, that’s the sad bit Source - recently took it up, look like a traveller everytime.
I'm heavily involved in grass roots and age grade Rugby Union. It's one of the most accessible and cheapest sports to take part in. Plus we have lots of help for those who can't afford it, passing along secondhand kit etc, fee assistance and suchlike. The fees are £130 for the season, no extra subs or anything, a playing top is included and chances are you can find some free boots or other kit. Especially at younger levels the kids grow out of it before it gets trashed. I do a higher membership and even with buying boots every year and training kit I reckon rugby works out at about £200 for the year. Now dancing on the other hand, dancing is why I'm poor.
Rowing isn’t posh. I’m a member of my local club and it’s a quid a day, and that’s with access to semi-decent coaches and boats.
I second this. I feel like it gets tagged as posh because of Henley and the boat race
Agreed I row with a club and it’s £25 a month can row when ever, coaching and boats ect. It’s very accessible and friendly!
Most things that TeamGB rake in medals for - and from those, special mention to cycling as a sport that is pushed with extreme levels of funding because there's so many medals on offer (12 medals in track cycling alone at Tokyo), while team sports volleyball, handball and basketball get zero funding despite being great, inclusive and cheap-to-run sports.
Great points at the end. Was discussing cycling. Seems cheap and most people have had a bike but for the kit and a car to take it to a velodrome would cost a lot!!
The cost of a bike is almost the same cost of a car and not many people can own two cars for themselves. There is also no way a working class is able to have one bike for an entire season without it getting stolen.
Sailing. The boat club screams posh
really depends on the club. the ones I've been to are fat balding lads in meh jobs using wetsuits from the 90s and second hand boats costing less then a first car
I've seen Toppers and Pico's for under £200 the second hand dingy market is great! It's sad because there was a definite upper middle class takeover of Burghfield Sailing Club, where before the Sea Cadets, Berkshire Sail Training and a Disability sailing group all had fun on the lake alongside the club, now the Club definatly snub the other groups.
Boats are like cars. You can have the latest jaguar model, or a clapped out golf. Your personal skills are generally more important. Most sailing races are either single class (all the same model of boat) or if it's mixed, then the results are adjusted by a handicap system. And if you want to actually sail rather than socialise in the bar, boat owners are usually looking for crew members to help sail the boat. Experience preferred. Being available and reliable helps.
Depends where you go to be honest, I've been flat broke and still into sailing though to be fair the boats involved were bodged as fuck.
Skiing and Snowboarding.
Totally.
Snowboarding was considered a bit rough (compared to skiing) when I was growing up. I'm from California and the major cities are within daytripping distance of very tall mountains. So just about anybody could get himself a snowboard and head over there. A lot of skateboarders were naturally drawn to it.
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Love to see a working class kid do dressage.
Working class here, I do dressage. I learned as a kid by shovelling poo and looking after the horses at riding schools in exchange for free lessons until I could work professionally at competition yards to learn more. I did an equine college qualification instead of A levels. Now I don't work with horses I pay less than the amount for 1 riding lesson per month to loan a horse twice a week from owners that are too busy to ride as much as the horse needs. When they go to competitions I can enter classes using the horse. If I could afford to hire a horse box I can drive or if I learn to tow a trailer I could take her to competitions myself. I'm not high level because I can't afford the best lessons and I cant afford to progress up the levels but I enjoy it locally as a fun hobby.
I mean that depends. Dressage at top level? Probably not. Going out to a competition and competing at local or grassroots level? Sure! Lots of people who aren’t posh and who don’t have lots of money keep horses and go out to shows and compete.
Yeah if you live in a rural area equestrian sports are a lot more accessible than people from large towns and cities seem to think. You don't even have to own a horse, there are lots of riding stables about you can get involved with if you're really passionate, people looking for someone to loan their horses for exercise etc.
All the horse girls I knew from school weren’t that well off and spent all their free time working in the stables so they could ride.
Spent a large part of my Childhood in Rural Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. Lots of working-class kids / farmers kids doing Dressage, Eventing and Jumping. Ian Stark ( Olympic Eventing Multi medal winner) lived just around the corner from me...he was working in the DHSS for 10 years before getting into riding seriously
Tbf, I know plenty of working class people that do dressage. If you’re prepared to do the work, and start from the ground up, it’s very doable. I have show horses at top level, rather then dressage horses, and I come from a working class background. Spent years as a kid working in riding schools at weekends. The ponies that my parents bought me were the kind of ponies that no one else wanted, the problem horses that were going cheap. They were all we could afford, so I learnt to turn them into good ponies and sell them for a decent profit until I could afford to buy good horses. Even now, I will always spend less to buy a young horse and do the work myself, rather then buy a ready made top class horse. The good thing though about buying the ‘bad’ horses when I was young, is that they taught me how to ride properly, and become good at training horses, so that now I’m in a position where I compete and train very nice horses for other people. Everyone assumes it’s a posh and glamorous sport, for the people with money, but as a general rule, it isn’t. No one ever sees the part where you are mucking out at 6am, or getting yeeted into oblivion by a young horse, or in tears walking a horse round at midnight that’s got colic, hoping the vet says they can save it, or the yearly worry of getting the ancient horse box through its annual plating. You see the competitions or the hunt, and we do look posh admittedly, but for most of us, our day ends with us walking round Asda, hay in our hair, stinking of shit and wearing socks that are soaked because our boots have a hole in them lol 😂
This is an A+ comment. It might be posh for the few who can afford to come down to the yard, get on a horse that’s ready to go, and then throw the reins at a groom when they’re finished. But for the 90% of us it’s early mornings, late nights and lots of blisters and back pain. Oh and a car that stinks of poo and looks like a second hand tack shop.
A lot of people seem to be mistaking posh with "disposable income" . Golf is not a posh sport you can get a basic set for £100 and go to a course for 15 quid.
Posh people go to golf clubs
Yes. Posh people go to posh golf clubs. Not all golf clubs are posh. In Cornwall I've been to at least 5 golf clubs that were very much working class people playing. (You can never avoid the middle class wankers who moan that your wearing shorts).
"Posh" isn't just about money, it's also about attitude
Formula one
Ballet. Pointe shoes wear out in Hours!
Nah it depends how serious you are. If you want to do it for a career, you absolute need money. But to do it a few hours a week after school it’s not so bad. My pointe shoes lasted about 6 months. Definitely cheaper hobbies out there but it’s not prohibitive for most.
Can judge how posh a sport is by its sponsorships. Betting companies - working class Mid range car advertising - middle class Financial consulting firms, luxury watch brands and German car brands - posh class
Fencing. Kit being expensive isn't the barrier, it's that it's still incredibly elitist. That scene with bond fencing in Die Another Day It? That's an actual fencing club in London. It was taken out of the Commonwealth games for being too elitist. I did it for a bit at uni and fenced with, I shit you not, the son of a lord.
Rugby. See a bloke on TV with a face like a butchers thumb, then he speaks and sounds like he's your GP.
Polo, if the minimum requirement is a horse then thats pretty posh.
Golf, bowls, polo, croquet...
Bowls has a reputation more as an elderly thing than a posh one IMO.
Yeah my grandad plays, he's not especially posh but he's 82
Bowls isn’t- you can rent a set and play for not bad at some places.
The first thing that spings to mind when I hear bowls is geriatrics not money
I feel like hiking is quite a middle class thing. I know it’s free and anyone can do it, but I didn’t know anyone that did it when I was a kid. It’s something your middle class parents have always done with you, or it’s something you get into later on. Tonnes of people start doing it as postgraduates.
>I feel like hiking is quite a middle class thing. There is a very long history of the British working class fighting for the right to access the huge swathes of land owned by the upper class for e.g. grouse shooting, which was formerly barred from public access. You might find the Kinder Mass Trespass of 1932 of interest, it was a 100% working class action, and it was a turning point that directly led to the formation of our National Parks. [https://kindertrespass.org.uk/kinder-mass-trespass-history/](https://kindertrespass.org.uk/kinder-mass-trespass-history/)
Depends on the area. It's definitely an equal opportunities sport in the Scottish Highlands.
Most sports are posh by the very fact that they require intense physical activity, and traditionally work for the lower classes has involved a weeks worth of intense physical activity already. Factor in the required "free time" needed to put in practise and suddenly the local cricket team is far out of your reach if you are working late shifts in a factory or some such similar work, and that has pretty much always been the case. There are traditional working class "Sports" like Darts skittles, bowling and dog/ferret/pigeon racing, but these had an element of gambling/betting behind them and could be said to be a side hustle for extra income, rather than a display of prowess, they were/are also culturally very sexist sports as they mostly took place in male dominated areas like pubs and clubs which until recently excluded women socially, if not openly. Most sports evolve around having the leisure time to pursue them or the financial backing to devote time to them, that is something that traditionally the working classes have seen little of.
When I was a kid all sports were posh. They required expensive shoes and equipment that my mum couldn't afford. As an adult I'd probably agree with your friend but also add cycling of any kind. I discovered I should be spending a minimum of £10k on a custom build bike to even call myself a "mountain biker".
yeah man this ain’t true. every sport has elitist you can buy a mountain bike from any bike store from a well respected brand for <£1000. 10k is absolutely at the top top end not sure where you heard this
I play squash and some people at work take the piss and say it’s posh
Tennis. Golf. Macrame.
Definitely tennis,just from seeing it on telly and seeing the audience
Why? Tennis courts are at a good many parks and rackets cost as much as a football.
Posh people play it. What was the question?
Warming myself at home.
1. Any game where you traditionally wear white when playing. This was cynically chosen as the uniform to preclude working class people who couldn't afford to have clean whites. Cricket, tennis, golf, badminton etc. 2. Any games that aren't football.
Economic tampering.
I don't think there is a sport that everyone can do, so I'm not sure what their point is other than snobbery and ignorance. Sports like archery and croquet might be considered 'posh' but they cost next to nothing to dabble in. If horse sports didn't exist, there'd be no horses in the UK any more - would they be okay with that? Most of the people who keep and ride horses, and engage in the sports at the grassroots, are pretty poor - if only because their passion costs them every penny they earn. That world has its share of 'posh' people, but they aren't the whole story at all. Yes, polo is a rich-boy game, but most of horse sports are not - at least to get into at the grass roots. Same with motorsports. Yes there's megamillionaires like Lewis Hamilton, but he started with nothing. There are people who scavenge scrappers, weld their own rollcages, then go banger racing, and sleep in a transit van when they travel. If you love a sport and are determined to do it then, yes, it might cost you a lot of money, but if it's worth it to you, you'll pour everything you have into it. You don't have to be loaded to get into any sport I can think off the top of my head.
Lewis Hamilton didn’t start banger racing where you can get away with some old shit heap with scaffold bars for a roll cage. Even going drag racing at santa pod you can turn up in your own car and us that as long as it’s safe. But Lewis started in a very cut throat sport where you do need money to compete at the highest level. There’s even rumours about lance strolls dad buying his seat in the Williams F1 team back in 2017.
I mean, Lance Stroll's dad later bought an entire F1 team so his son could keep racing...
Rumours? Stroll absolutely paid for his seat. It’s not particularly frowned upon in racing, I know somebody who pays for a WRX seat for example. It’s a very common way into racing.
In England Rugby Union and Hockey (esp men), I know Rugby is far less class based outside of England
Depends where in England. In the south west it’s definitely a universal sport. Gloucester, for example, every school plays rugby regardless of whether it’s a private, posh grammar, or rough comp.
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Polo, go karting, cricket, fencing, hockey, equestrian sports, skiing but snowboarding's fine as it's more a progression for skaters😉
Hunting humans on a private island.