Promoting Sport in Glasgow in general

Above Scotstoun Lesuire Centre

 

Glasgow is Scotland's sporting capital its renowned for the quality of its Sporting facilities and athlete coaching programmes. These World Class arenas include The National Badminton Centre situated in Scotstoun and the fifty metre swimming pool held at Glasgow Club Tollcross.

The main sport which Is promoted throughout Glasgow in my opinion is Football as there is almost at least one astroturf pitch at every community in Glasgow. Due to this I feel that football is over promoted as the amount of effort spent promoting just this one sport could be used to promote others. As just alone there are nine major football centres dotted around Glasgow itself these include one in Barlia, Glasgow Green, Greenfield, Ibrox, Lochend, Peterson Park, Springburn, Stepford and finally one in Tory Glen. If you look around your local community you will see there is at least one sport centre near by all of which will have a swimming pool and a couple of halls in which to either hold badminton competitions, or table tennis etc. As well as there being a huge number of centres designated to football there is also a great number of football pitches that could at to this count. These pitches can be found in Bengal Street, Blairdardie, Budhill, Carmunnock, Cathlin, Glenconner, James Lyndsey, King George V, Knightswood, Mount vernan, Nethercraig, Netherpollock, North Kehiesside, Peterson Park, Preisthill and also Temple.

Although Football is the most promoted Glasgow do promote other sports a good variety. The main sports Glasgow promote are Athletics, Badminton, basketball, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Netball, Rugby union, Swimming, Table tennis, Tennis itself and Volleyball.