20th century

• 1900s - 1960s sport was male dominated
• 1900s - 1960s the ethos of amateurism prevailed e.g. wimbledon was strictly for amateurs
• 1900s - 1960s middle class and upper class had great participation whereas working class men and women had limited time to play
• 1900s - 1960s sport was regional, national and international
• 1900s - 1960s sport was run by volunteers who administered the NGBs
• 1900s - 1960s sport was local at recreational level
• 1900s - 1960s Saturdays were for sport
• 1900s - 1960s spectators paid to watch sport
• 1900s - 1960s there were few logos and sponsoring
• 1900s - 1960s BBC and ITV offered coverage on sport
• 1960 - 2000s British sport was posed between an amateur past and a “free market” future
• 1960 - 2000s sport was fast becoming highly professional
• 1960 - 2000s the media was the driving force of sport
• 1960 - 2000s sport became more accessible
• 1960 - 2000s brought better facilities for sport due to more money
• 1960 - 2000s also brought scandals, hooliganism, drugs and doping
• 1960 - 2000s women’s sport developed possibly due to suffragette movements at the time
• 1960 - 2000s it was eventually acceptable for women to show aggression