Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
I think that a change in roles for both men and women -From a financial and working point of view-has put paid to sport within a community. Shared childcare, The local pub not having any real relevance within a community, where most football teams were played out of. Working patterns changing, young men not going into 'traditional' working environments, because they don't exist anymore, Huge debt and mortgages etc. Basically, the breakdown in traditional communities due to the eradication of manufacturing and heavy industry (sometimes well paid) which offered saturday afternoons off. People have to work more now to pay for the minute box that they call home.
I mentioned pub & club teams but forgot about teams that were formed in workplaces as well, Wiggins Teape, Rover (Pengam), British Ropes, Guest Keen, Spillers etc, all a thing of the past.