Tudor+Entertainment

=Tudor Entertainment=

=In the Tudor times many people had to make their own entertainment. There were no computers, televisions and mp3 players and very few people could read.= =Without electricity, often people got up early in the morning when it was light and went to bed when it was dark. They worked most of the day and week and so much entertainment was saved until Sundays. The one day of the week when most people didn't work.=

=Tudor Sports=

=Tennis=

=Tennis is one of the oldest of all racquet sports.=

=During the Tudor times it was played indoors in a large room with a net. Like tennis today, players had to hit the ball over the net. However, in the Tudor times, the ball could also be bounced off the walls and points were also scored by hitting the ball into one of three goals high in the walls.= =Tudor tennis rackets were made of wood and strung with sheep gut. The leather tennis balls were filled with hair.=

=There is still tennis now but it has been changed and they do it in a big court and you have to be very good to win the game, one of the best people in the world at tennis is Roger Federer. How you become the best tennis players in the world is to have some tennis lessons and practice a lot because practice makes perfect and you would be the best in the world if you really did practice and I mean it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!= = = = = =**Football**=

=Football was played differently than it is today. There were no set numbers of team players, so as many people who wanted to joined in the game. The goal posts were placed about a mile apart and the players could kick, throw or pick up the ball in an attempt to put it between the opponent's goalposts.= =A similar football game is played every year on Shrove Tuesday at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the world’s oldest, largest, longest and maddest football game. The game is played over two days and involves thousands of players. The goals are three miles apart and there are only a few rules. The ball is a hand-painted, cork-filled ball. It is thought that this game has been played for a 1,000 years.=

=Football now is awsome and much more better than football in th Tudor times, there are a lot of new teams and one is called Manchester United(full name of the team) but the short name is called Man U or Man U united, they are much more conpetative.=

=By Mfon=