The Ashes - Longest sporting rivalry?

[Tyrone Biggums]

I was just thinking, is the Ashes one the world's oldest sporting rivalry?

I was trying to think of some other sporting rivalries that go back to 1882 and struggled to think of any.

 

[The Large One]

England v Scotland at football - 1872.

 

[Beach Hut]

Doesn't Celtic and Rangers stem from some incident in 1600 ?

Mind you they were not playing footie then.

 

[The Large One]

Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race - 1829

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race - 1829

Ah yeah good one, forgot about the boat race and Borat's day out there.

 

[Billy the Fish]

forgot about the boat race and Borat's day out there.

"Come on the f***ing bucks"

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Doesn't Celtic and Rangers stem from some incident in 1600 ?

Mind you they were not playing footie then.

Never heard that before.

It was a Marist brother that started Celtic, not sure about Rangers.

Unless the 1600 reference is to the Jaccobite Scots who were butchered by the Scots who sided with the English?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

"Come on the f***ing bucks"

It was that moment when i realised Borat would make it big one day

 

[Gully]

Sussex v Surrey in cricket goes back a fair way, further than Yorks v Lancs, as I love to inform people from those parts.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Never heard that before.

It was a Marist brother that started Celtic, not sure about Rangers.

Unless the 1600 reference is to the Jaccobite Scots who were butchered by the Scots who sided with the English?

Think its referring to the Battle of the Boyne, which effectively shaped sectarian history in Northern Ireland ever since.

 

[Beach Hut]

Think its referring to the Battle of the Boyne, which effectively shaped sectarian history in Northern Ireland ever since.

That's the one

 

[Munkfish]

"Come on the f***ing bucks"

come on you mother f***ing bucks

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Think its referring to the Battle of the Boyne, which effectively shaped sectarian history in Northern Ireland ever since.

But it wasn't in 1600.

 

[tricky]

I believe the oldest cricketing rivalry is actually a complete surprise - I'm sure I remember reading that it is USA v Canada.

 

[Brovion]

I believe the oldest cricketing rivalry is actually a complete surprise - I'm sure I remember reading that it is USA v Canada.

Indeed. The first international cricket match was USA v Canada in 1844. Canada won by 23 runs.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Indeed. The first international cricket match was USA v Canada in 1844. Canada won by 23 runs.

yes, apparently USA selected a batsman wicketkeeper and left out their best spin bowler...

 

[Simster]

But it wasn't in 1600.

And bizarrely, it wasn't a battle between Catholics and Protestants either.