When it comes to buying a gift for someone who’s into sport, instead of buying equipment or sportswear why not totally surprise them with a sport themed gift experience? Whatever sport you’re into there is a gift experience to fuel all sorts of sports fan fires!

Tour of Your Favorite Football Stadium

The ultimate gift for any football fan would be to visit the hallowed turf of their favourite football club. Football Stadium Tours give behind the scenes access to some of the top clubs such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool FC. You can learn about the history of the club, but more importantly you get to visit the dressing rooms and walk down the players’ tunnel!

Tour of Lords Cricket Ground

For those of you who prefer the more genteel sound of cork on willow, then a tour of the MCC’s Lord’s Cricket Ground would totally bowl over any keen cricket fan. You will be able to walk in the footsteps of Botham, Atherton and Boycott and stride leg before wicket through the Long Room, dressing rooms and around the museum. Hows-zat for a gift experience! This would be top of any cricket lovers list of must have birthday gifts this or any other year.

Wonderful Wimbledon

Not for nothing is Wimbledon known as the home of tennis. This legendary venue – home to classic matches between Bjorg and McEnroe and Agassi vs Sampras – is yours to discover. Take a complete tour of the legendary SW19 venue, including many of the areas that are out of bounds even for tournament ticket holders. However, there’s no need to worry; no umpire will call you out for a foot fault! Or serve an ace with centre court tickets for a day’s play, during what is regarded as the highlight on all tennis players and tennis fans circuit.

Play Some Golf

Relax with a round of golf. With top courses around the UK and Ireland, there are gift experiences to suit all skill levels. You can learn how to swing a golf club, book a lesson with a Pro, or simply take to the fairways with your friends.

Don’t give a sideline gift; get in on the action with a super sporting gift experience instead.

Matt Greene works with Find Me A Gift, provider of gift experience ideas, unique and unusual gift ideas for all tastes and budgets. Visit them at http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk.

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There is a Manchester United Club policy known as the Automatic Ticket Scheme which ensures that every season ticket holder is guaranteed a ticket for all Champions League and FA cup home games. Although this might appear to be a good thing, further examination shows that the season ticket holder is charged for each of these tickets even if he has no intention of attending any of the games. In the each of the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 seasons, there were 10 of these extra games – and with a single game ticket starting at almost 50 pounds, this is a huge extra cost on top of the already very significant price paid for the season ticket.

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