4.1 (Up to 1945) - Professional, Amateur and Spectator
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- Professional
- Played to earn money
- Need money to make up for time spent not working
- Mainly working class
- Need money to make up for time spent not working
- Rugby league
- 1895 'broken time issue'. Rugby Union organisers refused to pay players. Led to the creation of the Rugby League
- Favoured in industrial towns of Northern England/ Midlands
- Association football
- The football association (1863) allowed players to be payed a wage.
- Popular by 1900s
- Wrexham football club 1872
- After depression it recovered in 1930's with radio/press coverage boosting appeal
- Football pools early 1920s created a means of betting
- Played to earn money
- Amateur
- Played as a past time
- Mainly upper and middle classes
- Rugby Union
- 1895 'broken time issue'. Rugby Union organisers refused to pay players. Led to the creation of the Rugby League
- Spread from Public school/ Universities in the mid-nineteenth
- Preferred in areas such as Wales
- Suffered during 1930's depression when talented players moved to professional
- Late 20th century allowed professional
- Suffered during 1930's depression when talented players moved to professional
- Tennis
- Lawn tennis was for private courts, spread of suburbs led to creation of clubs like Garden Village in Wrexham
- Fred Perry
- spectator (early 20th)
- Better Transport
- Spread of railway network meant travel was easy and cheap
- railway companies ran 'special trains' for spectators
- 1930s motorised transport
- Spread of railway network meant travel was easy and cheap
- Competitions and Tournaments
- Derby Matches
- Rugby internationals between home nations
- Rugby league
- Favoured in industrial towns of Northern England/ Midlands
- Rugby league
- Rugby internationals between home nations
- Influence of the Radio
- BBC began live outdoor broadcasts on sporting fixtures in the 1920s
- Increased leisure time
- Bank Holiday act 1871 meant matches could be rearranged so more people would attend
- Most workers had Saturdays/ Saturday afternoons off which enabled them to watch
- Sporting Heroes
- Fred Perry
- HID IT Acronym
- Better Transport
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