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Football Boxing and Cricket

England is the home of several sport but none as much as cricket. Football, or Soccer,  also really saw it's rise in England. A nation that has been brought up with an intrinsic spirit of fair play and great effort, sport may have replaced the Battlefields of Empire in the modern world. 

 
 
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