Editing Bath, Somerset (section)

===Rugby===
[[File:Bath rec.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Recreation Ground (Bath)|Recreation Ground]]]]
[[Bath Rugby]] is a [[rugby union]] team in the [[English Premiership (rugby union)|Premiership]] league. It plays in blue, white and black kit at the [[Recreation Ground (Bath)|Recreation Ground]] in the city, where it has been since the late 19th century, following its establishment in 1865.<ref name="bathrughist">{{cite web |title=The story so far |url=http://www.bathrugby.com/club/history/ |publisher=Bath Rugby |access-date=17 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924002936/http://www.bathrugby.com/club/history/ |archive-date=24 September 2013 }}</ref> The team's first major honour was winning the John Player Cup, now sponsored as the [[Liverpool Victoria|LV]] Cup and also known as the [[Anglo-Welsh Cup]], four years consecutively from 1984 until 1987.<ref name="bathrughist"/> The team then led the [[English Premiership (rugby union)|Courage league]] in six seasons in eight years between 1988 and 1989 and 1995–96, during which time it also won the renamed Pilkington Cup in 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1996.<ref name="bathrughist"/> It finally won the [[Heineken Cup]] in the 1997–98 season, and topped the Zürich Premiership (now Gallagher Premiership) in 2003–04.<ref name="bathrughist"/> The team's [[squad]] includes several members who also play, or have played in the [[England national rugby union team|English national team]], including [[Lee Mears]], [[Rob Webber]], [[Dave Attwood]], [[Nick Abendanon]] and [[Matt Banahan]]. [[Colston's School]], Bristol, has had a large input in the team over the past decade,{{vague|reason=which decade?|date=September 2022}} providing several current 1st XV squad members.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} The former England Rugby Team Manager and former [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland national]] coach [[Andy Robinson]] used to play for Bath Rugby team and was captain and later coach. Both of Robinson's predecessors, [[Clive Woodward]] and [[Jack Rowell]], as well as his successor [[Brian Ashton (rugby union)|Brian Ashton]], were also former Bath coaches and managers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Brendan |title=Rowell blessing for Ashton to take up England post |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/2335580/Rowell-blessing-for-Ashton-to-take-up-England-post.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 April 2006 |access-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505004719/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/2335580/Rowell-blessing-for-Ashton-to-take-up-England-post.html |archive-date=5 May 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>