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Sport and especially football are an important part of Manchester culture. Two major football clubs, Manchester United and Manchester City, bear the city's name. United's ground, the largest club football ground in Britain, is just outside the city centre, in the borough of Trafford. These football teams are just two examples: according to the Urbis centre Manchester has the highest concentration of football clubs per capita of anywhere in the world. Other football teams in Greater Manchester include Oldham Athletic, Stockport county, Bury F.C., Wigan Athletic, Rochdale F.C. and Bolton Wanderers.
The legacy of the Commonwealth Games includes many first class sporting facilities such as the Manchester velodrome, the City of Manchester Stadium, the National Squash Centre and the Manchester Aquatics Centre.
Old Trafford cricket ground, home of Lancashire County Cricket Club, hosts many first-class cricket matches including Test Matches.Manchester is also represented in Rugby League by the Salford Reds who are currently in the process of constructing a new state-of-the-art stadium.
The main roads serving Manchester are the M56, M6, M60, M61, M62 and M66 motorways. This accounts for a large percentage of the UK's motorway network and is the best network provided for any city in the UK outside of London.
Manchester and the surrounding area has a good bus network with regular services in and out of the city connecting to all the satellite towns and villages. Maps of bus routes and a public transport journey planner for the local area of Greater Manchester can be found on the GMPTE website
The city has two major stations, Manchester Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly linking Manchester to the rest of the United Kingdom. There are also many smaller local stations, such as Manchester Oxford Road.
Despite Manchester's size, it is not provided with an underground train system, such as the famous London Underground and similar systems in Glasgow and Newcastle. The reason for this is the geology of the city; Manchester is built on Clay which is not suitable for an underground system.
Instead, the city has a tram system called the Metrolink. Operated by Serco, Metrolink links the city centre to Altrincham, Eccles and Bury.
Plans to extend the Manchester Metrolink into the surrounding towns and boroughs that form Greater Manchester have recently been resurrected after being abandoned by the Government. GMPTE (the Passenger Transport Executive responsible for the Greater Manchester area) are leading the fight to ensure that the extensions are built, with significant support from the local councils and community.
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