Coming from England, my favourite sports were REAL football (soccer for the ignorant) and cricket.
At college I started playing a lot of Rugby, plus also got into american sports like basketball, American football and baseball. As we go on, I'll be adding links for my favourite teams, starting with the one, the only, L.F.C.

Football (Soccer)
Having lived in Manhattan for a couple of years now I thought I would never find a local team to play with (well, a team that spoke English and were willing to pass it to me), but lo and behold a chance encounter at a party led me to Central Park Rangers.As you can probably tell, it was founded by a couple of British expats who shared a fondness for Queens Park Rangers, a rather mediocre football team from London that wasn’t too bad in the 80’s but has since fallen upon hard times.It just so happened that our timing was perfect, as Jimmy and I were playing with the Hudson River Hawks out in Rockland, having to schlep out every Sunday morning at 9am to get there.The relief of being able to actually walk to the games as opposed to drive out to them was tangible, as was the fact that these guys are about as sociable a group as you could want.

The Club is made up of 4 teams, the first 3 of which play in the Cosmopolitan League, whereas the 4^th team plays in the Metropolitan League.The major benefits of playing in the Metro League is the fact that the field is fixed at City College at 133^rd and Convent Avenue in Harlem as opposed to having to drive all over Long Island and New Jersey to get to away games in the Cosmo League.This year we did pretty well, finishing 5^th out of 12 with it being the first season for most of us.The spring season looks to have a marked improvement and a shot at the title.Until then we’ll have to content ourselves with strategy sessions at our headquarters, otherwise known as our sponsor the Parlour on 86^th and Broadway.

LIVERPOOL FC - The one, the only - The team of the 80's will soon be the team of the next century, especially with the prodigy Micheal Owen on board.
Liverpool NY Supporters club - These guys get together every week to watch the games live - I expect to be there soon on a consistent basis.
ISFA - This is a great site to get onto all kinds of newsgroups/message boards regarding soccer
Wycombe Wanderers - Interesting, the whole time I lived in the town of High Wycombe the team was useless, but as soon as I left all of a sudden they became good and are now in Division 2. Here's an 'unofficial' page that's a lot of fun.
USA Team football - an informative page on what's new with the US National team

My other favourite sport for playing & watching when growing up was cricket
Here's a good site on Indian Cricket

American Football
NFL's main page, which contains links to those New York powerhouses, the Jets & the Giants

Basketball
NBA's main page, which contains links to my favourite teams, not coincidentally the Knicks & Nets. BTW, this is a very impressive page, probably the best sports one I've seen - every detail meticulously planned. David Stern is no joke!

Baseball
MLB's main page, which contains links to the Yankees/Mets.
Now, before all you whining NY area fans start blasting me for liking BOTH the Yankees/Mets, Jets/Giants, Knicks/Nets, the reason is because I moved here 12 years ago so didn't have time to develop a love/hate relationship. Can't we all just love one another?
 

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