Emergence of globalisation of sport in the 21st century

Feudal System - Way of structuring society around a relationship derived from the holding of and in exchange for service or labour

Popular recreation - sport and pastimes of people in pro-industrial Britain

Foot Racing - competive running/ walking in 17th and 18th century involving feats of endurance

Patron - Member of the gentry who looked after a lower class performer e.g arranging competitions and prize money and loooking after the performer

Dr William Penny Brookes - FOunder of Wenlock Olympian Games in 1850

Rational Recreation - 19th century, sport pastimes for the lower classes which were designed by the middle classes to be well ordered, organised and controlled

Industrial Revolution - mid 18th to mid 19th centuries, change in Britain from a feudal, rural society into industrialised, machine-based, capitalist and controlled by middle classes

Industrial patronage - factory teams set up…