Corners Where Talent Lies

conclusion wrong. Talent is most apparent in its physical form, and the UK education system is set upon leaving such talent dormant.

Different schooling systems exist in the UK, and with the discrepancy of funding comes a disparity between the opportunity to play the different sports that exist. Take, for example, rugby, a sport entrenched with stereotypes of the type of people who play it.

Yet, 37% of the England national rugby team is privately educated, with most of the best players originating from such institution due to their financial ability to provide access to different sports.

Education systems around the world understand the importance of sports within its curriculum, to the point America created a whole amateur league, driving billions in revenue and opportunity off the fact. It plays off an overall doctrine the country holds around sport, viewing it more as a past-time rather than something intrinsic to a child’s growth.

Football dominates as the only socially inclusive sport, with only 15% of the Euro 2024 squad being privately educated, yet even then, access to the most popular in the world is dwindling in the UK, with financial barriers slowly preventing kids from easily accessing Sunday league amateur teams or public pitches.

In an effort to change this, the perception of what sports means to UK society must be re-evaluated, with a reinvigorated emphasis on opportunity to all students in all sports.