Encompassing the best players from the highest ranking teams in the country, it sees some of the most skilled rugby union competitors battling it out on the field and fighting for the honour of coming out on top. With sports tickets to witness the Aviva Premiership Finals, spectators are well aware that they are in for a memorable event.
The competition has come a long way since it first emerged onto the scene in the second half of the 1980s as the Courage League, progressing though different names – thanks to different sponsorships – and leading us to its modern incarnation at the forefront of the English rugby union calendar. At stadia across the country the premiership unfolds from Headingly in Leeds to the Madejski Stadium in London and Welford Road in Leicester, with fans flocking to witness it unfold and it is likely that there is an abundance of stand-out games left for people to witness in the years ahead.
There have been various victors over the years, with the Leicester Tigers coming out on top in the 2009 – 2010 season, beating out other teams such as the regular-winners London Wasps, who have lifted the trophy on many occasions over the last decade. But these are not the only teams to make an appearance as part of the competition and the sport also features the likes of Harlequins, Bath, Exeter Chiefs, Newcastle Falcons, Saracens, Sale Sharks, Northampton Saints, London Irish, Leeds and Gloucester in the 2010 – 2011 season. But thanks to the up and down nature of any good sport, this could change with each passing year.
And whilst fans will be able to find out the results through the media it never comes close to picking up rugby union tickets and witnessing the action first hand in the stadium, where every move the players make will be experienced by the crowd. It not only provides all the spectacle of a stand-out sports tournament, it will also provide a memorable and wholly unbeatable atmosphere – something that definitely cannot be replicated outside of the stadium, whether you are watching it on television or reading about it in the newspaper.
It is a testament to the high quality of the work the players put into the sport that rugby union, and the English Premiership that appears with it, manages to reserve such a hold on the scene. Whatever name the competition goes under as the decades ahead progress it is likely that it will continue to be popular and will continue to draw in huge support.
