What's the Oldest Sports Rivalry?
Kyle Gislason
2025-05-17 22:33:18
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The two oldest football clubs met in the world’s oldest football ground for the quarter finals of the Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup, reigniting a rivalry stretching back to 1860.
It only hit me as I boarded the train to Sheffield that what I am witnessing that night is 164 years in the making, the beautiful game owes itself to this fixture.
Kaya Considine
2025-05-17 21:58:25
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The rivalry between England and Australia is known as the oldest rivalry in the sport. The two countries meet every two years and the winner claims the Ashes urn which is one of the smallest trophies in world sport. The ‘Ashes’ word came after Australia defeated England back in 1882 at the Oval and the English newspapers printed it was the ‘death of English cricket’. They said English cricket would be burnt down and the ashes sent to Australia. When England did venture over to Australia, a pair of bails were burned and the ashes were put into the now famous urn.
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