The lush green carpet of the rugby ground was used as a parking lot, with lines of cars filling the arena © Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

This is also the home of Leeds rugby union ground. The media box is located at the football stand end simply because there was a time when people thought there was only one type of football worth talking about (rugby). Today the lush green carpet of the rugby ground was used as a parking lot, with lines of cars filling the arena. And to think that people were forbidden from walking on the grass yesterday, because “nobody is allowed on the ground”. Basically it’s the people who aren’t allowed, only cars are.

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The John Featherstone Memorial Foundation has been voted the best cricket-ground bookstall in the country. The second-hand shop has a number of rare cricket books and is run by a couple in memory of one of Yorkshire’s best servants. All the books sold are donations and the returns are given back to schools across the county.

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The Manchester loss suggested that the team couldn’t be inspired by watching Chak De India but football appears to have worked now. Some members of the Indian side watched Manchester United against Sunderland last evening (even Paul Collingwood, a Sunderland fan, went along) and it appears they were pumped up enough for this encounter. Bring on the football. Soccer, that is.