The bar charts the percentage of people interested in six sports in the UKduring three different periods of time.
Overall, football became the most popular sports throughout 10 years. Another noticeable is that the figure for football, rugby and swimming has witnessed a upward trend over the period while the participants of the others declined.
In 1995, the proportion of football lovers stand at about 40%, which is the highest figure among all the categories, followed by a slightly growth by 4% over the next 4 years. Relatively mirrored that of football, the figure for swimming peaked at nearly 30% before witnessing a fall to 25% at the end of the period. Oppositely, interest in rugby has experienced a steady decrease to under 20% , followed by an ascend to approximately 25% in 2005.
Regarding to the three remaining sports, there was 30% of people who express a preference for snooky, which was closely followed by the figure for tennis, at 29%. Afterwards, both snooky and tennis witnessed a sharply drop to 23% each at the end. Meanwhile, golf also relatively mirrored that trend in levels of interest, with a slight fall by 1% has observed in the year of 2005.