Rugby is one of the oldest and one of the most popular contact sports in the whole world. Rugby has a wide fan following and the Rugby world cup is an affair which is keenly followed and supported. There are two forms of Rugby prevalent in the world today which are quite popular. The Rugby League which is a professional form of rugby is highly popular in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Rugby is named after the place where it was invented which is the Rugby school in the county of Warwickshire in England. Rugby has born a close resemblance to football but has now evolved and cannot be counted as an offshoot of football but it does still share some similarities with football.

Rugby has a rich and an entertaining history as has its roots in an eighteenth century Cornish sport which involved carrying and tossing a ball to different players or individuals towards a goal. These goals were not set up at a fixed distance and goals could be set up as far as in different villages. This created quite a fighting atmosphere and this has given Rugby such an aggressive appearance. However Rugby can also be associated with a tradition known as kicking the bottle which was followed in England since Pagan times. Rugby has assumed great popularity in almost the whole world and Papua New Guinea a country in the Pacific ocean has Rugby as their national sport.