American Reacts How Did Premier League Teams Get Their Names & Nicknames?

[@casperbacon1423]

Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United is an interesting one. There used to be 7 Sheffield teams in the same league and the boast was they had a team for each day of the week because of the fixture logistics making it only possible to play at home on a certain day of the week.Unfortunately they got into financial problems so 6 of them merged to form Sheffield united while the team who played wednesday refused.

[@InterMalager]

My team is Rochdale, and we're currently 92nd out of the 92 English football league clubs! what a time to be alive haha

[@darthwiizius]

Hello from the club bookending the leagues from the other end right now. COYG

[@dbz9393]

You'll get there one day my friend 🙂

[@foggy7577]

Must be nice never fearing relegation

[@InterMalager]

@@foggy7577 Theres a weird excitement (anxiety) in facing it though, knowing you're in a battle for sure! recently those battles were in league 1 though, when its league 2 its all or nothing, 39 games to go yet though hey

[@hungchoonghow5857]

My team is Scunthorpe.

[@philjones45]

There are hundreds of teams in the UK, this just happened to be the Premiere league sides a few years zgo, it isn't up to date. Fulham,Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth are in the Premiere leaguse today. There are 92 teams in the English League.

[@sweetmanlovestrish]

That's wot I said!

[@bloodyfitnerd1947]

And that's just the tip of the mountain.

[@swimrunmatt]

these aren't the Premier League teams from "a few years ago" - it's literally just the sides from last season. only Burnley, Norwich, Watford have changed for the ones you mentioned

[@jeralddarakjy2989]

Isn’t there more than that? Like 10 divisions? I’m American so I’m not sure, but I watch a lot of EPL and championship, thought it was more than 92

[@witchland]

The first four tiers of the football pyramid are considered to be "league" football. The Premier League has 20 clubs. The three tiers below are the English Football League (EFL), consisting of the Championship, League One and League Two, each with 24 clubs. All of the tiers below League Two are considered "non-league". Beyond the National League (fifth tier), the clubs are mostly semi-professional or amateur. So only the 92 clubs of the EPL and EFL are described as "league" football.

[@davehopkin9502]

The ship in the Man City refers to the Ship Canal which connected the city to the Liverpool Bay which brough raw cotton into the city (avoiding the high charges the port of Liverpool was charging) and fabric out to the world (at the time Lancashire produced around 70% of the worlds cotton fabric) - its reputed to be the origin of the rivalry between the two cities

[@neilbuckley1613]

Rivalry is older than that, in the 17th century during the Civil War, Liverpool was Royalist and Manchester was a Parliamentarian stronghold [ literally, it was besieged ].

[@williamwhitty7243]

amendment, the reasonable charges at the port of liverpool, gready manc basterds

[@campbellgraham1979]

Correct. But it’s not only Man City that has a ship on their badge. Man United also have it.

[@russellward4624]

And the 3 stripes refers to the 3 rivers of Manchester, the Irwell, Irk and Medlock.

[@pitekxkitek]

Man U also

[@Lixmage]

a) It's Liver Bird pronounced LIE - VER and b) Look up the Manchester Ship Canal... Up the Toffees!

[@pontinrob]

Glad that didn't just annoy me 😂

[@McJibbin]

yeah sorry about that 😅. It took me a few minutes to realize how stupid my statement was lol

[@JK50with10]

Then why is it called Liverpool not LIE-VER pool?

[@dannjp75]

Yeah, that annoyed me too

[@finncullen]

@@JK50with10 Because the English language has all the consistency of a thousand cats being asked their opinion

[@joeknight6151]

im a crystal palace fan and we most commonly are known as 'palace'. thats what we call ourselves and what most other teams fans call us. there are about 18,000 registered football teams in england alone, from professional to semi-pro to amateur clubs

[@Assassinb3n]

Other Palace fans are hard to come by

[@tsrgoinc]

West Ham come from the Thames Ironworks, as we originated in the Thames Ironworks Foundry, not the the Thomas Ironworks. If they going to give a history get it right! The Hammer’s on our badge Iron hammers for foundry use, Irons are a shortened name for Iron Hammers. The irons nickname is just prevalent as the hammers, one of our main chants is Come on You Irons and when we send messages on social media it get abbreviated and an Icon added COYI⚒

[@Isleofskye]

Talking of "getting it right" as a member of the "Unnecessary Apostrophes Society" I,simply,must object to your unnecessary and ill-advised use of an apostrophe when you wrote.. " The Hammer’s on our badge Iron hammers" etc...

[@eddisstreet]

And Tottenham didn't steal their nickname from North Preston - it was Preston North End

[@contactlight8079]

Thanks for saving me the time on correction...

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

And the Boleyn Ground was named after Boleyn Castle (Green Street House) which was a stately home near the ground. I have a framed picture of the WHU team photo in front of Anne Boleyn’s Tower from the late 30s.

[@creativeamerican8811]

The Thomas Ironworks… Did he really say that? He did. Wtf… you can’t listen to any of it then can you… odd

[@GSD-hd1yh]

The badges of Man U and Man City both show ships due to the Manchester Ship Canal, a 36 mile waterway linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Most goods used in Manchester's businesses were imported through the Port of Liverpool, but Manchester's businessmen viewed the charges imposed by Liverpool's docks and the railway companies as excessive. A ship canal was therefore proposed to give ocean-going vessels direct access to Manchester. When the ship canal opened in January 1894 it was the largest river navigation canal in the world, and enabled the new Port of Manchester to become Britain's third-busiest port despite being about 40 miles (64 km) inland.

[@peterchapman3740]

And we dint pay the scousers biggest point

[@McJibbin]

What's a scouser if i may ask?

[@ayeready6050]

@@McJibbin dumpster divers

[@OiiRobbi3x]

@@McJibbin Someone from Liverpool who speaks with a scouse accent there is also Liverpudlian another accent in Liverpool. You might know this but Manks (people from Manchester) dont get along too well with people from Liverpool.

[@davebirch1976]

@@McJibbin Scouse is a nickname for people from Liverpool, it comes from a local meal which is a bit like a stew and it's called Scouse so therefore people from Liverpool are called Scousers.

[@seivad74]

I love your live learning experiences along with the occasional 'Brainfarts' that you don't edit out, it makes you so much more relatable than most other KZbinrs!

[@richardwest6358]

Brain farts --- more like Brain Diarrhoea !

[@davehopkin9502]

The Bee is used as a symbol for industrial work (as in worker bees) so appears in the symbology of many Northern Towns and Cities, the City of Manchester uses the Cotton Bol and the Worker Bee - to symbolise the importance of the victorian cotton industry, Burnley was also a cotton town....

[@steveglufc]

I’m a Leeds United fan, and, whilst we are indeed know as the whites, our true nickname, which is still used but much less these days is “The Peacocks” this stems from a local brewery which originally owned the land the stadium now rests upon and had built a pub (still the across the road from the stadium), called “The New Peacock” hence, the peacocks.

[@sidtw13]

There are so.many mistakes in this its daft

[@tomlynch8114]

1. Rugby doesn’t have a longer tradition than Football in England. Both derived from the mass-anarchic games of folk football which took place since the Middle Ages which in turn had Norman and Roman predecessors. By the 19th century various codified games of Football had been established by the elite public schools in England, but when pupils left school and wished to continue it was difficult as each school played by different rules. Therefore the Football Association was formed in 1862 with a standard set of rules. The majority wanted a game that predominantly used the feet and outlawed handling. Those who favoured handling left to form the Rugby Football Union with their own standardised rules. 2. The Manchester clubs feature a ship because of the Manchester Ship Canal, which allowed for ships to travel as far inland as Manchester. 3. Newcastle is my team too. He has East End and West End the wrong way round! The club was actually formed in 1881 as Newcastle East End and it was East End who had the better side and finances. Newcastle West End played at St James’ Park which was a better location. West End’s finances were in a mess and they went bankrupt in 1892. East End took over St James’ Park and changed their name to Newcastle United. The Magpies is the main nickname with The Toon a secondary but still common one. The Toon Army was a name for the supporters/fans rather than the club itself. However this term was mainly from the 1990s and has fallen out of favour. Fans tend to be referred to as (The) Mags (short for Magpie) 4. There are clubs all over England. Whilst the Premier League is the top league, there are also three nationwide and fully professional leagues below. There is promotion and relegation so the worst teams in each league drop down a league and are replaced by the best teams from the league below.

[@ianprince1698]

Newcastle's traditional rivals are Sunderland united, near where I live. you have different pubs depending on which team you support most of the clubs grew up around the industrial areas where workers had been given Saturday afternoons off

[@markmorris7123]

Folk football... that must have been crazy back in the day..Can you imagine the chaos

[@tomlynch8114]

@@ianprince1698 Sunderland United? They’re just Sunderland 😂 Yeah South Tyneside, Washington and County Durham is fairly split. I’m in Newcastle itself, so it’s all Newcastle

[@tomlynch8114]

@@markmorris7123 it still gets played, usually on Shrove Tuesday. Alnwick in Northumberland, to the north of Newcastle, and Ashbourne down in Derbyshire are known for Shrovetide Football.

[@ianprince1698]

@@tomlynch8114 sorry my error

[@rawschri]

Burnley's badge is partly formed from the town's " Coat of arms ", the bees represent the town's Industrial heritage. Around 1902, there were more cotton weaving looms than people in Burnley. It was also a major Coal mining area, and the Leeds-Liverpool canal runs right through the town .... The red rose's are symbols of the County of Lancashire, where Burnley is located

[@thomasskinner2259]

i support glasgow rangers the teddybears

[@steevenfrost]

Everton used to have a lady dressed in old fashioned Victorian dresss, who used to throw Toffees known as Everton Mints to the crowd before the game. Also the lock up is still standing, and is to be seen on Everton Brow in Liverpool. We have the honour of having the player scoring the record amount of goals in a season(42 games) 60 goals his name was Dixie Dean. We have only been outside of the top league for only 4 seasons.

[@Rob_Infinity3]

The guy in the video called Wolverhampton the oldest current Premier League team as they were founded in 1877. Yet earlier in the video he talked about Aston Villa who were founded in 1874.

[@contactlight8079]

And it's now a recognised fact that Crystal Palace have been playing football as Crystal Palace since 1861.

[@pj5517]

@@contactlight8079 It's not a recognised fact. Stoke still remain the oldest pro club in the world now Notts County out if the league

[@contactlight8079]

@@pj5517 I recognise that CPFC have been playing as CPFC since 1861. There were one or two years that they didn't field a team so they were not included as the 'oldest' club but paperwork has come to light that show that CPFC were never disbanded. It wasn't even a reformation. They just stopped playing and then started up again. As for Stoke, I've watched them play especially under Pulis...I'm not sure I'd call that football.

[@dazediss6629]

@@pj5517 Stoke aren’t in the Premiership.

[@pabmusic1]

The Manchester Ship Canal was one of the great achievements of Victorian engineering. From the Mersey to Manchester, it meant that Manchester had a dockyard. It was originally built to allow cotton from America to bypass tariffs imposed by Liverpool. Manchester was a great cotton-milling city.

[@argantyr5154]

And that is also another reason why Manchester & Liverpool don't like each other.

[@creativeamerican8811]

Manchester. Cotton and guns.

[@stuartmcivor2276]

Referring to the Brentford news item, my favourite headline was when Inverness Caledonian Thistle beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup and the headline was: "Super Cally Go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious".

[@ayeready6050]

Classic

[@johnharper3909]

I learnt of that by reading an Ian Rankin book,featuring John Rebus

[@nizmollusk]

Was at uni in Aberdeen when that happened, the headline sticks in the memory for sure :D

[@TheHoff1902]

I’m a Norwich City fan, and the Norwich City manager. The reason why there’s no other clubs around that area as you referred to is because it’s literally just countryside. Norwich, in the county of Norfolk is a city in the middle of absolutely nowhere, a beautiful city, but very remote. Our nearest club is Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, some 45 miles away, which is a massive gap in England!

[@paulmidsussex3409]

Chin up.

[@caspian5964]

woah it's the real Dean Smith

[@TheHoff1902]

@@caspian5964 Certainly is lad. I’m taking us back up this year and Josh Sargent is the greatest player of all time

[@jakesolo2872]

Football exploded in popularity when it was adopted as the urban manual workers’ game and you still find concentrations of teams in the areas that were most industrialised in the 19th century - London, Midlands, North West, Yorkshire and the North East. I’m Scottish and it’s the same here - Glasgow, Central Belt, Edinburgh, Fife, Dundee were where most of the population concentrated to service industry and trade and is where you find most football teams. I’d bet it’s the same wherever you go actually.

[@chrism7969]

The key thing about the Manchester Ship Canal is it allowed sea going vessels to sail straight to Manchester without having to be unloaded and having their cargoes transferred to small barges, unlike a traditional canal. Hence the name Manchester Ship Canal, rather than just the name Manchester Canal. It made a big difference to the city's economy. They were quite proud of being an inland city that could receive large seagoing vessels, so the ship symbol appears on many badges and coats of arms in Manchester. It was a bit of an engineering wonder when it was first opened in 1894, but fell out of commercial using in the 1960s when the increasing size of seagoing vessels and containerisation meant it was no longer able to handle the majority of those vessels.

[@TheBobbyel]

The fundamental reason was that the Manchester traders got fed up withe scouser either stealing the goods or charging exorbitant fees. They decided to bypass Liverpool.

[@chrism7969]

@@TheBobbyel I am not entirely sure about that. Avoiding the cost of unloading a seagoing vessel and transferring the goods onto railway wagons or barges to send them a mere 30 miles to then unload them again onto carts for the final delivery to the factory would be cost saving enough to justify the Ship Canals building. It wouldn't need theft or exorbitant fees. Still I guess the manchester-liverpool feud has to be kept going somehow. A 120 year old canal will do at a pinch.

[@jackthelad5366]

The key thing about man u is they don't play in Manchester, they play in Trafford a Borough in Greater mancester which is a county

[@lonepessimist4582]

There are teams everywhere. This is just where the current (at the time) teams are. But you can barley move for football teams in the UK.

[@Isleofskye]

True HOWEVER nearly none of he major cities with more than one team: London,Birmingham,Liverpool,Manchester etc are to The Easy side....

[@Isleofskye]

East Side...

[@chrisrivers2701]

The liver bird was Evertons until it was stolen of their crest by liverpool.

[@nyfbie]

Leeds fan here! White became our color in 1961 when Don Revie became our manager. His vision was to transform us into the Real Madrid of Yorkshire so he changed our kits into white. Before that, blue and gold were our primary colors and our nickname was the peacocks (although we did have white shirts for 1 season before that under Jack Taylor, they were initially change shirts but ended up being used as the main shirt that season for some reason) Anyways, great video!

[@gjh997]

Everton buddy. Lots of Americans played there. Howard for example 👌

[@Beefadin]

For a small country we have a lot of football teams. We have 92 professional clubs over 4 main divisions with many many many others in divisions below that. So, although there seemed to be a gap in areas of the teams, there are clubs in lower division from those areas. The oldest operating team is Sheffield FC in such a low division most people dont even know they exist, especially as there are 2 more famous teams with the name Sheffield.

[@scottirvine121]

Technically 89

[@davek834]

@@scottirvine121 I think he needs to rephrase country to the English league top four divisions and that would bring it back to 92 to include the 3 Welsh clubs

[@jacobc9181]

There are more than 92 pro teams now, pretty much everyone in the National Leage is pro and some teams in the National League North and South are also pro these days.

[@raymonddixon7603]

A small country physically but a fairly big country population wise. Also soccer is the number one sport in England. In a lot of countries it is not the number one game. Just saying......

[@davek834]

@@raymonddixon7603 I think we can safely say it's everyone number 1 sport in the majority of Europe and Central/ south America, are you from the states where they have sports competitions called world series and only USA compete in it with possibly Canada teams thrown in

[@AlmosttheGoodlife]

Harry Enfield did a really funny sketch about a 1930’s football team playing a 1990’s football team. I think it’s called ‘Association Football.’

[@vaudevillian7]

I vaguely had a memory of that, that’s worth a watch definitely

[@gipgap4]

Featuring Charles Charlie Charles ace winger.

[@stephencohen575]

There are 92 clubs in the English football league system, divided into four leagues or divisions. The Premiership, Championship, League 1 and League 2. There are twenty teams in the premiership, Twenty four in the Championship and Leagues 1 and 2. In London, apart from those in the Premiership, there are other clubs in the lower leagues. For example in the Championship, you have Queens park Rangers, also known as QPR for short who play in West London. Millwall who are a South London club from the area of Bermondsey, Fulham who are close neighbours of Chelsea. Other London based teams: In League 1 Charlton Athletic who play in the area of South East London of the same name - Charlton. In League 2 there is Leyton Orient, or Orient for short who play in Leyton in East London.

[@stephencohen575]

@@aragorniielessar1894 Yes, if you count the non League clubs but there are 92 in the Four divisions of the EFL

[@paulross8418]

Millwall FC is a Championship side from S.E. London (Bermondsey). Nickname 'The Lions', called The Lions as founded by Scottish workers who moved to London for work and the Scottish flag has a Lion. Founded in 1885 hence 'We Fear No Foe Since 1885'. Famous unfortunately for football violence mainly in the 1970's 80's but has thankfully died down. Our song 'No one likes us, we don't care'. as no one likes us. Proud to have supported them for 42 years. COYL (Come on you Lions).

[@geoffw8565]

Brighton is miles away from ' The White Cliffs of Dover ' The cliffs that are the Iconic ones are the Seven Sisters/ Beachy Head just outside Eastbourne which is fairly close to Brighton. These cliffs often get shown on doc's and films as The White Cliffs especially as they are much whiter and more impressive than Dover's ( plus lazy journalism researching )

[@neilgayleard3842]

Dover to Brighton 104 miles 2 hour drive. That's not close in British terms.

[@dlanor9312]

Dovers white cliffs are where the chalk North Downs meet the sea. Beachy Head is where the chalk South Downs meet the sea. The area between them is called The Weald

[@geoffw8565]

@@dlanor9312 Not sure why you are giving me these topographic details about the Weald and North Downs when they are not relevant to me simply stating that the White Cliffs of Dover are nowhere near Brighton ?

[@thejourneymanguide3893]

As a Brighton fan, this is well-corrected. I guess they don't care about Sussex's natural beauty.

[@Stoggler]

On the other hand, it might be making reference to the white cliffs in Brighton itself (e.g. the marina)

[@PeNguiN5CS]

Im West Ham fan and he got something wrong in the video. The original name for West Ham United was The Thames Ironworks Football Club then changing it to West Ham United. The Irons also isnt a uncommon nickname as its still chanted today as COYI or Come On You Irons!

[@gipgap4]

You pointed out a lack of teams, or in this case, big teams to originate from East anglia being Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex amongst a few others. I believe the reason comes down to population spread. You’ll note many of the teams mentioned are from the larger cities in England, being London, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham with a few coastal teams chucked in for good measure. The team I follow (Norwich City) is in Norfolk and like a lot of East Anglia,is mainly a farming region with only a couple of substantial population hubs. Our rivals would be Ipswich Town in Suffolk who aren’t mentioned in the video. There are other teams in the region but they feature less in the Premiership than Norwich does. Although to be fair, Ipswich were more of a mainstay in the top division a few decades ago.

[@Shoomer1988]

It's alright Connor. Soccer is a British word anyway. It was originally slang for Association Football (the full name of the sport) that started at Oxford University. At one point the word was "“assoccer”, then it was shortened to soccer but overtime the word football took over.

[@Beggar42]

10:10 ... they'd get absolutely murdered. In 1919, there were essentially no tactics. You basically had two ten man mobs going at it. You had no strikers, no midfielders ... just a great big mob. Organized passing was alien to them. Also, present day players are top athletes while in 1919, players were sometimes overweight, often smoked and drank, and rarely if ever did anything more than some light jogging to keep in shape. If they tried to keep up with modern players, they'd probably drop stone dead after 10 minutes. 14:30 ... Much the same thing happened a decade earlier to the Belgian national team. They played the Netherlands in their yellow outfits in the pouring rain. At halftime, Belgium was several goals down and they switched out of their soaking wet yellow outfits into the dry red outfits. In the seconds half, Belgium scored several times and even won the game. The Belgian newspapers, the next day, wrote "Ils se sont battus comme des diables rouge", they fought like red devils. Ever since the yellow shirts were abandoned and they're referred to, to this day, as the red devils. 20:23 ... A common chant for West Ham is Up the Irons! Which you might also spot on Iron Maiden albums as bass guitarist Steve Harris is a lifelong fan of West Ham. Now, after all these English nicknames ... there is a Belgian team, KV Mechelen, that's nicknamed "de Kakkers" which quite literally translates to "the Shitters" (or the crappers, if you will). There are several stories about how that name came to be, but the most plausible one is that it's a play on "Ke(r)ker" (i.e. churcher) as KV was established by catholics while the rival team was from the liberal side of the city. (A churcher is a person who ostentatiously attends church, not so much for the well-being of his soul, but so that everyone can see what a good catholic he is.) The name was originally an insult, as you might imagine, but has since been reappropriated by the fans.

[@TDW0304]

the place in the southeast you think has no teams is the greater London area. He used a zoomed in view of the city for that part.

[@jimbo6059]

Yee Crystal Palace is south london. My local team to where i was born, was in the premiership for a few years, like someone said, Charlton Athletic, Wolverhampton were also known as Old Gold as well, don't know why . Everton and Liverpool have stadiums currently around 300 yards apart, Everton moved out of Anfield when the landlord put up the rent, and thst id how Liverpool was formed as the landlord had a stadium with no team. It is the closest distance between major football teams, basically separated by a park. But Everton are building a new stadium away from the Everton area on site of an old dock.

[@johnharper3909]

I'm still a Palace fan and we are in the EPL

[@rvhw3466]

History with hilbert is one of the best channels. Need to watch his history and language stuff

[@willstone5180]

Brighton and Hove Albion, the super Seagulls!! A modern day team would beat an older era team providing that they didn't walk of crying after the older team kicked them six feet up in the air from behind. Different times, different rules.

[@dlanor9312]

To true. You won't get the likes of Ron "Chopper" Harris or Norman "Bites yer Legs" Hunter, in todays game.

[@christopherhill9619]

I think the reason why there aren't as many clubs in Cornwall (SW) and East Anglia (SE) is because it's traditionally a bit more rural there. We have another 4 leagues below the premier league where lots of clubs from around the country are, the premier league is a very prominent league to be in. There is probably more emphasis on football in the North of England as well, traditionally, football was the sport of the working class and rugby was the middle class. The South is more wealthy than the North so more people played rugby. I know some fans will argue this, but if you consider the South has higher populations as well as prosperity. There are a lot of clubs from the North that have always been in the top league, simply because that's where the best talent was. Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Blackburn, Newcastle in particular

[@franticstorm7411]

last season, 21/22 Norwich city were the strongest team in the premier league. being at the bottom, they were supporting the whole league.

[@michaelgoodman7410]

As a Norwich fan I can agree with this. With being relegated last season, we can look forward to winning the championship this season and getting another trophy in the cabinet. I believe we hold the record for largest number of relegations, which also means we have the largest number of promotions to the premier league (although I may be incorrect on that point).

[@johnnorth4667]

@@michaelgoodman7410 I'm also a Canary fan and think our nickname should be 'The YoYos for obvious reasons. Connor should be a Norwich fan as we have Josh Sargent a U.S international as our striker

[@bob6383]

The Liverpool nickname is “the Red Shite”….

[@manlikemark9641]

I support Charlton Athletic, from South East London, a former Premier league club (now in the 3rd division) and we are Known as the Addicks, because its a South London distortion of The word Haddock, in our early years we were sponsored by a local fishmonger and being so close to the Thames, haddock and then addicks caught on

[@paulkemp4559]

Football was first, Rugby is said to have originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823 when during a game of football, William Webb Ellis decided to pick up a ball and run with it followed by the team trying to get the ball back

[@tonyknox6739]

The guy got something slightly wrong Penge still exists in Southeast London Crystal Palace was known as upper Sydenham and Crystal Palace Park was Penge park

[@AlBarzUK]

Also, Croydon used to be in the county of Surrey when I were a lad. Not far from South Norwood where Crystal Palace was, I used to walk from East Croydon to the Palace matches.

[@lynette.]

@@AlBarzUK I remember when Crystal Palace/ Gypsy Hill Upper Norwood was considered as out in the sticks.

[@Isleofskye]

@@AlBarzUK Which part of Surrey or Sussex are you in now?😀

[@Isleofskye]

@@lynette. In 1968 my friends moved to The " Suburbs" of Thornton Heath near Galpins Road, where there was that gas explosion recently. Ironically they moved away from Kennington and The London Road because of the crime that was beginning to occur there. Then when The Yardies made their vase Thornton Heath in The 1980's they moved even further up The London Road to Croydon and then long b4 Croydon became the Borough with the most murders they moved again to the heart of Kent.

[@AlBarzUK]

@@Isleofskye I was born in Congleton (Cheshire). I’ve moved a few times since the 60’s. Seaford, Brighton, Hove, (Sussex), Maidstone (Kent) and now Pelsall (north of Walsall in the Black Country). 🤗

[@alanmoore2197]

You should investigate the FA Cup - the annual Cup that features professional teams of every level but also established amateur teams in the organized leagues. A total of 732 teams play ('22/23), and amateur teams can sometimes last to the later rounds where professional and then Premier League teams enter the competition. You can have lopsided matches - like when Lincoln City beat Burnley to get to the last 8 in the competition (these amateur teams are then known a "Giant Killers"). So there are teams everywhere and unlike in the US - these teams rotate between leagues based on performance and this really happens with major changes in fortunes over time.

[@melvincain5012]

Leeds Utd. are called the Whites now, but their original nickname is The Peacocks.

[@roberthughes9856]

Old time teams versus Moderns. If the game was played with the original rules and spirit with crunching tackles, shoulder charges that made your liver vibrate, sliding tackles from behind where you simply went through the opponent, a ball that when wet was like a cannonball, boots the army could establish the Empire in and pitches 4 inch deep in mud then the Oldies would win due to their opponents abandoning the game for fear of their lives. Try the Harry Enfield sketch of ( I think) 1930s Arsenal versus the, then, modern team.

[@MrMarkg9]

Not to mention "Chopper Harris" and "Bite yer legs Hunter" They were tough games back then. Even played in snowstorms!!

[@andysibley1]

Manure is the generally accepted nickname for Manchester United where I come from.

[@pruthvirajshinde9991]

I hope you know the history behind that name , and if you still stand by what the fans of some teams said about the munich disaster, you should be ashamed of supporting something like that , it's absolutely disgusting and shameful , hate the club all you want but to say stuff like that is inhuman.

[@ImToblaah]

Absolutely loved this video dude, your genuine interest and enthusiasm shone through, and I appreciate how much British culture you've consumed!

[@GaryGernon]

West Ham was Thames Iron Works. Not sure where he got the "Thomas Iron works" thing from 🤔.

[@beanmitch1980]

My team is (currently) in the division below the premier league, the mighty Rotherham United. Our nickname is The Millers and I'm fairly sure it's because of our old ground which was called Millmoor. I don't know all the details but there was also a song called "Miller Men" or something along them lines that was associated with us too. And finally our club badge is an old tower mill sitting atop a football. Smaller clubs deserve love too sometimes :)

[@Pokafalva]

As an Everton supporter. I will expand further on the nickname 'Toffees'. The actual toffee shop was run by a person called 'Mother Noblett'. That's where the 'Toffees' nickname came from. Also, the official Everton mascot is a girl dressed in 19th century clothing (blue and white of course) who parades around the perimeter or the pitch before kick-off, throwing toffees to the crowd.

[@samgunn12]

Fascinating. I wonder if the tradition will pass on to the new stadium?

[@benellis9665]

Aston Villa is my team. What they didn't mention is the lion on the crest. The lion is the same lion on the Scottish national team's crest. This is because in the formative years of the club a couple of Scotsmen were instrumental in their success! George Ramsey (although never having the title) became the team manager and stayed with the club for more than 30 years. Another Scotsman on the board at Aston Villa was William McGregor, who actually came up with the idea of having a football league, probably the most visionary pioneer in the history of the game!

[@stephenpike5858]

'How would they do against a modern counterpart?'' It would be 20-0 to the modern counterparts. Back in the day every player would have been born and lived within 1-or 2 miles of the club, so even if the same players had access to modern coaching it is very unlikely they would have be good enough to get into the current Leeds team as the players now come from all over the world. This will apply to all teams

[@rayzalaf8988]

Depends on which rules they play by, old rules and the modern team wouldn't last ten minutes they'd all be stretchered off.😁

[@jacklynch7802]

Also they were mostly still workers in mines, trains etc and all drank, compared to the modern players eating, drinking and training to the absolute best avalible technology

[@RushfanUK]

Newcastle United has had the nickname The Magpies since they changed to black and white stripes after forming the club, Toon is a relevantly recent appellation derived from the Toon Toon chant that can be heard during matches, the Magpie has been incorporated into the club crest worn on the strip a couple of times and is used as a mascot on home matchdays.

[@davehopkin9502]

The video only deals with the 20 teams in the Premier League, there are lower leagues making up another 96 teams in the Football League, below that there are 1100 lower level leagues and 18,500 teams of from small well organised amateur clubs to pub teams

[@ayeready6050]

You've just made that up

[@AlBarzUK]

Tim Glennon Seems to think it’s 40,000 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[@Isleofskye]

@@ayeready6050 111,000 teams😀

[@neilgayleard3842]

At professional and semi-pro level that's not true. If you add all the kids and park teams then that might be true.

[@davehopkin9502]

@@neilgayleard3842 All the kids and park teams are affiliated to the FA via the county league systems....... the professional level is very much the minority of teams, a number of the 96 league teams are at best semi-pro

[@timglennon6814]

There are loads of football teams. There are 69 professional association football clubs in England and 3 in Wales. In total there’s over 40,000 registered football teams in England. That number professional teams down to the lower leagues and Sunday league football teams.

[@davebirch1976]

There's 92, don't forget there's the premier League, championship, division 1 and division 2. There's more than 3 football teams in Wales it's just that 3 of them play in the English leagues. The Welsh premier League is made up of professional and semi professional clubs

[@bigcheese6212]

The person who uploaded this video made a few mistakes, Manchester United was not called Newtown Heath, it was Newton Heath. He also said Tottenham got their Nickname from North Preston, they are in fact called Preston North End. West ham was not called Thomas Ironworks, it was called Thames Ironworks after the ship building company that was based in the Canning Town dock on the River Thames. Nobody called Thomas was instrumental in the formation of the club. Arnold F Hills was the person who created the club originally and some of the buildings of that of that ship building company still exist today.

[@1882osr]

We also didn't exactly steal their nickname, but rather paid tribute to Preston North End by wearing the same kit as they were a very successful club early on and it being a white kit 'the lilywhites' made sense. A pretty common practice at the time; Juventus ended up wearing Notts County kits and still play friendlies with them today because of it. (although that was more coincidence than it was purposeful tribute)

[@dazediss6629]

He also says that Wolves are the oldest club in the Premiership, founded in 1877. But before that he states villa were founded earlier. On top of which Palace weee founded before both of them. He also has trouble recognising that Brighton & Hove Albion, is literally a place. He doesn’t seem to realise that Hove is an area just south west of Brighton - then goes off on some wild tangent about it being close to Dover…. (It’s over 100 miles from Dover) & not even in the same county.

[@yesg651]

I really like you im so glad i found you, its really interesting seeing an american watch and learn about this kind of stuff. And also im not 100% certain but i think the reasoning behind the boats on the logos of Manchester teams is probably because there are docks in Manchester which led in important role in importing goods.

[@lukebishop5044]

This video also skips too quickly on Leeds United. We played in blue and yellow until the manager Don Revie said if you want to be the best you need to look the best. The best at the time was Real Madrid, hence the all white kit. Yes I am I Leeds fan.

[@ayeready6050]

And now you have a big Koch and a yank at your club. Useless

[@helvete983]

MOT yes he fails to mention Leeds City or the fact our nickname was the peacocks.

[@johnharper3909]

Glad it did!! As a 12 year old had my hat stolen from me back in the mid '60's outside Elland road.Only ground in England,to coin a phrase,"i had agro" I'm now 70 and remember it to this day and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[@charlesyork7141]

The Old English ham which means variously "homestead, village, manor, estate" (Mills, p. 381) and hamm which means "enclosure, land hemmed by water or marsh or higher ground, land in a riverbend, rivermeadow, promontory" (Mills, p. 381) both appear as ham in modern names

[@webbofysgethin2127]

It can be a bit of a weird concept to people from North America, but in England the top 4 leagues (Premier League, Championship, League 1 and League 2) are significant as the promotion/relegation system means that big clubs can often go down and smaller clubs can go up, so the clubs in each league are changing all the time!

[@ayeready6050]

Every club in England is tiny

[@webbofysgethin2127]

@@ayeready6050 No club in England are as massive as Glasgow Rangers that's for sure ;)

[@ayeready6050]

@@webbofysgethin2127 my man 😉

[@darthwiizius]

@@webbofysgethin2127 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If Rangers were in the Premier League(the real one not the comedy version over the northern border) they'd be competing with Bournemouth and Forrest for 20th.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@alexandergrant-xg2do What would be the point of a draft in English Football? Where would the draftees come from?

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Ships used to reach Manchester, a major trading centre, via the Manchester Ship Canal.

[@Jack-1994]

The way he said Liverbirds 😅 its ‘lie-ver-birds’ but yes ‘Liverpool’ was said correctly 🤣. My team is Liverpool (i can trace my whole paternal lineage starting with my dad back to the 1600s in the Liverpool area!)

[@nathanmurphy3840]

Thats the most scouse thing iv ever heard

[@pureholy]

I know, how can anyone in Britain not know how to pronounce Liverbird? I too am a Liverpool fan but one who has never been to Liverpool.

[@ayeready6050]

@@nathanmurphy3840 apart from "the bizzies caught me bin dipping la" of course

[@ayeready6050]

@@pureholy just like every other Liverpoop fan

[@Jack-1994]

@@ayeready6050 ive been countless times. I know it like the back of my hand. I wouldve been born there but my mum and dad moved back to the part of England where my mum is from whilst she was pregnant with me.

[@CrazyshadowTalksFootball]

To explain the English Football Pyramid: There are 20 clubs in any one Premier League season. 3 get relegated down to the Championship while 3 from the Championship get promoted up (Championship winner and runners up plus the winner of a 4 team playoff tournament for the teams who finish 3rd to 6th). Likewise, the bottom 3 clubs in the Championship get relegated to the third tier, Known as League One with 3 League One clubs promoted up to the Championship in the same manner as Championship to Premier League. FOUR teams go down from League One into the fourth tier, Known as League Two, where the top three clubs plus that leagues playoff winner go up. Just the bottom two clubs in League Two (and therefore the bottom two in the entire pyramid) get relegated into the top tier of Non-League with just the winner and playoff winner coming into the English Football League. Sorry for the long explanation but hope this helps. P.S. I support a team from my hometown of West Bromwich called West Bromwich Albion, currently playing in The Championship and hoping to get promoted into the Premier League. The club (and town) are in the midlands in between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Our main rivals are Wolverhampton Wanderers and we also have rivalries with Aston Villa and Birmingham City who are also currently in The Championship with us.

[@eddhardy1054]

This is a strangely inaccurate video. The Red Devils were Salford Rugby Club not Manchester United Rugby Club. West Ham started out as Thames Ironworks not Thomas Ironworks. Sir Henry Percy didn't own Tottenham but his family did own Northumberland Park (where Spurs originally played) years later. The club Spurs took their white shirts from was Preston North End not North Preston. Also mate you asked why there are no football clubs in East Anglia or South London straight after the video mentions Norwich City and Crystal Palace...WTF! 🤣😊👍

[@Isleofskye]

Also said at the end of the video "17" Clubs not 20 ,as you know.

[@eddhardy1054]

@@Isleofskye Cheers mate. Got to be honest, by then I'd kinda given up hope...I think I may even have started to hallucinate. This guy's not normally too bad on history but this vid (the facts, the pronunciation, everything basically) was really piss poor eh? 😉🤣

[@Isleofskye]

@@eddhardy1054 Yes,My Friend😀

[@mossgreen4593]

I felt sorry for Connor😢 With the right balls up the Presenter was making on the video I’m not surprised he couldn’t remember much. He was freaking out about the ships in Manchester 😂😂😂

[@SpiritmanProductions]

10:18 Teams from 100 years ago wouldn't stand a chance today, for several reasons: • The modern game is markedly faster - today's players are true athletes who play on near-perfect pitches with lighter balls and better boots; • Fitness levels today are far superior - even as recently as the 1980's, many players were noticeably exhausted after 70 minutes; • The laws of the game that they would be familiar with would serve little purpose today - they would be constantly committing fouls.

[@johndowds5770]

The modern player wouldn't stand a chance if they had to play by the original rules and wear original boots and kit , and play on old pitches . Also, use the old training methods and have another full time job .

[@16ozClawHammer]

​@@johndowds5770 You're right. modern players are a disgrace. How dare they take advantage of the improvements in diet, technology, medicine, training techniques, etc., etc. I only attend football matches these days if I'm guaranteed that at least one player will be hospitalised with dysentery or scurvy by half time. And if they are, I regard that as not being committed enough and fully expect them to be choking their lungs up down pit by 5am the following morning.

[@johndowds5770]

@@16ozClawHammer your point was that the old teams wouldn't stand a chance , flip my original argument and let's say the original teams weren't forced to work , were taken from a young age and fed and trained and coached the same as the players of today . My point was that there cannot be a comparison between them , certainly not one that states the one or the other would be better . We will never know ,and that is how it should be left . The teams of old that won trophies were the best of that era .

[@16ozClawHammer]

@@johndowds5770 I know, I know. I was just taking the piss. I agree with you totally.

[@fezhat7096]

What does the weight of modern players testicles have to do with it?

[@KingoRichie1990]

I support *Blackburn Rovers.* Founded in 1875 and known as the *Blue and Whites* or the *Riversiders.* Currently playing in the Championship.

[@pedanticlady9126]

Connor, you need to know that there are several Leagues of football in the national game. Currently, the top five leagues are full-time professionals. The next two leagues are a mix of full-time and semi professionals. Below that are thousands of amateur and semi-amateur Football Clubs playing in Leagues all around the Country. The Premiership is merely the top League in the Pyramid. There is a system of relegation and promotion throughout the various tiers of the leagues at the end of each season. This encourages competitiveness through the Season which runs from August to May. The Premier League has only existed since 1992. Before that there was a different arrangement of the leagues. Since its inception fifty different Clubs have played in the Premier League. Fort-eight based in England and two (Cardiff and Swansea) in Wales. Of the twenty contenders for 2022/2023 Season, only six Clubs have played in every season without being relegated. Another six were also founder members but have been relegated to a lower league at least once before returning to the top flight following promotion. Three teams are relegated down to the lower division and three are promoted into the Premier league at the end of the Season. The top Clubs in the Premier League are competing to qualify for lucrative places in the various European Competitions.

[@joescarecrow]

Came here to say this, but certainly wouldn't have put it so well!

[@Isleofskye]

@@joescarecrow Came here to write ,what you wrote but not so well..

[@lindylou7853]

Crystal Palace is in Thornton Heath / Selhurst. Croydon itself is a train ride away. It shares its car park with Sainsbury’s and it was always a nuisance remembering when CP were playing at home to know when the supermarket was closed. They hold some good concerts in the summer!

[@josephtreacy667]

Who Sainsburys 😁 ?

[@24ginger121080]

Norwich City and Newcastle United are both in the east of England and were both featured in that video. The teams listed were from the 2021-2 season and unfortunately Norwich City (the biggest team from Norfolk) finished bottom of the league and got relegated (to the championship)and will not feature in the 2022-3 premier League season. Don't forget there are another 76(professional) league teams in England who play in the championship, League 1 & 2 which this video didn't cover

[@monkee1969]

Nottingham Forest (The Trees) 1865 the oldest club & with a rich history. You want characters, watch on youtube Mark Crossleys stories about Brian Clough (the greatest English manager never to manage England

[@TheHoff1902]

Biggest club in East Anglia, you mean! 😉We’re the only professional club in Norfolk, Ipswich, our rivals, are from Suffolk

[@iank2615]

Newcastle is about as far away from the East of England as you can get and still be in England. It's in North East England, a different region altogether.

[@24ginger121080]

@@iank2615 I'm guessing the half way point would be somewhere like Hull, also nowhere near Norwich. As for a region called the east of England, I would love you to point it out on a map, and if you mean east Anglia, no one in East Anglia recognises the term east of England as refering to them.

[@iank2615]

@@24ginger121080 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_England. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_East_England There are no halfway points, you're either in the East of England or you're not. Being 200 miles away would suggest you're not. Being nearer the east coast than the west doesn't mean you're in the East of England. It doesn't matter whether East Anglians recognise a geographical term, it still applies to them.

[@mannym7849]

Hi Connor, I really do like your channel about learning things. Keep up the great work on both your channels 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I’m an Arsenal fan ❤️🤍 and we are the last English club to go through an entire #PremierLeague season UNBEATEN. We were known as The Invincibles in 2003/04 when we posted a record of Played 38, Won 26, Drawn 12 and Lost 0. Come on you Gunners! #COYG

[@goldboy150]

London isn’t on the sea either but is historically a major port city. It’s not like Kansas - you’re never too far from the ocean to be a port in the UK so long as you’ve got a navigable river or canal

[@paulmidsussex3409]

It is on a tidal estuary / river. It is still one of the largest ports in the UK but activity is spread over a huge area. The largest cargos tend to go to Thurrock or Tilbury outside the city but there are over 50 landing terminals in Greater London mostly caterring to commuters, visitors and recreational traffic. There are a few that are not primarily for passengers such as Walbrook Wharf which is used for exporting refuse, I think it might be the only remaining active cargo terminal in central London.

[@grapeman63]

The symbol of the city of Liverpool is a mythical bird - the liver bird. This is usually pronounced "lye-ver" rather than "liver" and its modern depiction is of a cormorant holding a sprig of laver seaweed in its beak. However, the oldest seal of the city has a more generic bird, thought to be a poorly drawn eagle, holding a sprig of broom in its beak. This harks back to the founding charter of the town of Liverpool granted by King John. John's royal emblem was an eagle (taken from his namesake, St. John the Evangelist) and the sprig of broom represented his royal house, Plantagenet (planta geneta = yellow plant after the sprig of broom that John's grandfather, Geoffrey of Anjou, habitually wore on his hat). There are plenty of clubs in the centre, east and south-west of England as well as in South London. Unfortunately, none are currently good enough to be represented in the EPL. You will find these clubs littered throughout the EFL - the English Football League.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

glad you pointed that out...pronounced 'Liver' is just offal

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

There are lots of teams all over the country, but the Premier League ones are currently mainly from the big cities. There are league sides from the Southwest (Exeter, Plymouth), Northwest (Carlisle, Barrow), East Anglia (Ipswich, Colchester), South London (Sutton, Wimbledon), and even a handful from Wales (Cardiff, Swansea)...

[@seanriley199]

Fulham 'The Cottagers" as the stadium was built around a literal cottage where some priests made a football club. We usually cheer 'Come On You Whites!" as our home kit is is white with black trim. We're also London's oldest team and within shouting distance to Chelsea's home ground (which is actually situated within the borough of Fulham, South West London). Funfact: Cottaging is also a gay sexual practice (unrelated to the club)

[@inky4763]

Basically the teams come from around large cities, either the old industrial cities of the Midlands and north or London. Obviously a few exceptions here and there but other than Newcastle and Middlesbrough in the north there are no large cities on the east side of the country until you get to London.

[@peterjemmett6036]

I support Wycombe Wanderers from the town of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, they are known as the Chairboys as they where founded by workers in the furniture industry, High Wycombe being known as the furniture capital of England at the time.

[@tomwatkins4581]

The south of South of London is represented by Crystal Palace and the rest has a lot of lower league teams such as Millwall

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

One of the first great canals which were big enough to carry large, sea-going trading vessels was (and remains) the Manchester Ship Canal, which opened in 1893 and connects the city with the Irish Sea at Liverpool.

[@texasmagpie]

The reason for the ship on the Man city and Man U crests is because it is considered a port city. There are actually a LOT of teams in London, well in most large cities there will be several football clubs, but there are only 20 teams in the top division (The Premier League). I am a Newcastle United fan.

[@joemama-df6cb]

It’s worth noting that since this video was made Crystal Palace have been recognised to have been founded in 1861 making them founding members of the Football Association and the oldest team in the world still playing professional football

[@manlikemark9641]

This isn't true, a team called Crystal palace was formed, but it's not the current club and has no connection to the current club, even a few of your prominent historians have poo pood it

[@Isleofskye]

@@manlikemark9641 You are referring to Crystal papalce which was a different team entirely now disbanded. Shame about tht as I often remember their fans shouting "UP THE PAPALCE!"

[@joemama-df6cb]

@@manlikemark9641 recognised by the FA mate

[@johnharper3909]

As a Palace fan,thanks for that

[@markjones127]

I used to live in Brighton, the white cliffs of Dover are about 70 miles away but Brighton has it's own white cliffs nearby called the Seven Sisters

[@zman2205]

I’d recommend watching Jim Daly’s football league 92 songs (preferably the most recent one) if you want to see just how many professional football clubs there are. The Premier League is just the beginning

[@nickwall2497]

Leeds UTD are also called The Peacocks, named after The Old Peacock pub across from the stadium

[@enemde3025]

The narrator got it wrong ! The bird of Liverpool is called the LIVER bird (pronounced LIE VER) not LIVER as in the internal organ ! The ship of Manchester teams refers to the Manchester ship canal. He mentioned Norwich City . They are from the East of England as are many other smaller clubs. Most towns in the UK have their own clubs. They are not mentioned here as they play in the lower leagues. There are 57 leagues featuring 84 divisions across the UK. I am a supporter of the mighty LEEDS UNITED. HIS IS AN OLD VIDEO AS SOME OF THE TEAMS MENTIONED HAVE NOW BEEN RELEGATED TO LOWER LEAGUES AND OTHER TEAMS HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE.

[@immutablenomad]

Manchester has a large river and was one of the biggest trading hubs. My team is Chelsea and the former teams would always get smashed by the newer ones. Chelsea used to have a keeper that was named 'Fatty' and he was bigger than the Undertaker.

[@chrisharris5497]

Easy Connor, quick explanation for you mate, The ship on Utd and City's badges exemplifies Manchester's trading expertise and is also a representation of the ship canal. Manchester is where the industrial revolution is said to have kickstarted. My team is West Ham, I was born about 3 miles from the ground and then grew up less than a mile from the ground so there was no other choice for me. West Ham is in East London bud so you know (I thought I'd clear the confusion). One big fact he didn't go into about West Ham is right up your street bud, our home ground for over 100 years until 2016 was called Upton Park or The Boleyn Ground and the crest had a castle on it and that's because there was a castle in the immediate vicinity to the ground that Anne Boleyn stayed in hence the association of the Boleyn Ground. Little history lesson I thought you'd find interesting mate, have a good weekend Connor.

[@rjhurst]

My team is Tottenham Hotspur but I also follow Leyton Orient in League 2 as my dad supports them. It was quite funny how you said, ‘are there no teams in Norfolk?’, immediately after they featured Norwich City. Also, the 20 teams in the Premier League are not set like in American sports as the bottom 3 teams at the end of the season are replaced with the best 3 teams from the division below. It’s great that teams at the bottom of the table still have to strive to compete towards the end of the season to ensure they are not relegated to a lower division.

[@ayeready6050]

Glory hunter.

[@rjhurst]

I don’t think Spurs fans can be called glory hunters as since I started supporting them around 1986/87, we’ve only won the FA Cup in ‘91 and 2 league cups (in ‘99 and ‘08)! They’re the closest professional club to where I live (just 11 mins by train) and also supported by my uncle, cousins and brother. Our next door neighbour worked for Spurs as the club secretary, so when I was a kid, I met Ozzie Ardiles outside our house as he often came round to play golf against my neighbour.

[@brettparnell8254]

Lifelong supporter of Liverpool FC. During World War 2, my great uncle was a chief officer on a ship that sailed numerous times between Halifax, Canada and Liverpool during the Battle of the Atlantic, before he was then directed to sail south on D-Day and fire on German machine gun posts on Juno Beach during the invasion on June 6th 1944. Outside the Royal Liver Building on the waterfront, the street is called "Canada Boulevard" and maple trees from my home province of Ontario have been planted there in memory of the Canadian sailors who never made it back home. I'll always have a connection with the city though this history. Heading over there next week for Liverpool v. Ajax (Amsterdam) in the Champions League.

[@nickwall2497]

In the UK, we have 4 leauges of Professional football, The Premier League being the top league. There are South London and Norfolk and Suffolk clubs, they're just in the lower leagues

[@davidcraig4222]

I'm from Sheffield, home of the world's first and oldest football club, Sheffield F.C. (established in 1857), who are simply known as 'the club'. The 2nd oldest club are Hallam F.C. (est 1860) also from Sheffield, known as 'the countrymen'. They played against 'club' in the world's first and oldest derby match. Known as 'the Sheffield derby'. Both of these clubs are still amateur and play in regionalised local leagues in the English League Pyramid. There are also two professional clubs in Sheffield, my team Sheffield Wednesday (est 1867) known as 'the owls' due to their stadium being situated in the old Owlerton district of the city. Ironically they were originally called 'the blades' due to the city's fame as a manufacturer of knives, swords, cutting tools, and fine cutlery. However, the club moved from the Bramall Lane stadium to their new permanent stadium of Hillsborough in Owlerton, and to compensate the owners of Bramall Lane, a new club was formed from part of Wednesday's club, which would play at the lane and be known as Sheffield United (est 1889). Originally called the cutlers, or sometimes disparagingly, the 'junior blades' until Wednesday officially adopted the Owl as it's nickname/crest, and so United took on 'the blades' moniker. Both the pro clubs in Sheffield remain well supported with their large stadiums, and have historically been top division clubs for most of their history, however both have been tragically mismanaged (though United seem to have got their act together a bit more than Wednesday at the moment, as much as that pains me to say as a Wednesdayite!) A case in point, the 'steel city derby' between Wednesday and United still holds the third division of English football's record attendance of just over 49,000 fans for a match in 1979. Up The Owls, WAWAW!

[@grahamgresty8383]

There are teams in all areas of England but they are in lower divisions. Ipswich (east Anglia) for example, were in the Premier league but are not currently their because we have promotions and religations for all 10 tiers of the leagues (5 tiers are refered to as 'non-league'). There are currently 6 Welsh teams in the English leagues: Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrexham, Merthyr, Colwen bay. My team is Tranmere Rovers (the super white army) which is a district of Birkenhead (opposite Liverpool), however they play in Prenton having 'roved' from the neighbouring district hence the name. They are currently in the 4th tier (division 2) but were once in the 2nd tier, 4 times in the play-offs for the Premiership.

[@antiqueinsider]

Manchester is a huge manufacturing centre with supplies brought from Liverpool by barges on the Manchester Ship Canal.

[@paulbroady4141]

Leeds are currently managed by Jesse Marsch, former USA international, and also has Brendon Aaronson and Tyler Adams, both current internationals playing for them. I have supported them for over 50 years. Why? Well, who else is there? I actually live 20 miles from Norwich City.

[@dcoughla681]

Until recently, a Russian Oligarch called Roman Abramovitch owned Chelsea FC so you’re correct, Connor. Football is perceived as a working class sport in the UK & Rugby Union is seen as a middle class sport. Although this is changing. Factory workers played football on their breaks & Rugby Union was started in a public school (private in the US) called Rugby.

[@dcoughla681]

Really amazing that. I always got the impression that baseball is like cricket - a middle class/upper middle class sport played by university educated people. @@alexandergrant-xg2do

[@peternicholson3147]

Related to the Manchester Ship Canal system which transported coal,spices etc around England in the late 18.00s

[@lukebishop5044]

If you put a team from the early 19th century against the modern football team now I’d be shocked if they lasted 10 minutes before passing out

[@almostyummymummy]

10 minutes? I'd be kind and give them 15. Maybe 20 on a very good day. But, that aside, wouldn't even be remotely close.

[@pontinrob]

I'm a Ipswich Town fan our nickname is The Tractor Boys The nickname is an example of self-deprecating humour referring to Ipswich's agricultural heritage

[@H75-i4b]

Brits invented the word "soccer" (short for "association football") and used it as alternative name for football until the 1980s. The word only came to be seen as the typically American name for the sport relatively recent.

[@hattoriirte]

No we Fcuking didn't, stop peddling this and stop believing this bullshit don't list any internet bullshit here that says any different take your wikipedia and other horse shit and stuff it up your arse, We have never ever called football soccer, the only alternatives to football we've ever had are things like footie, or in phrases are you going to watch the match, fancy a kickaround etc If you think I'm full of shit google any british tabloid and look at archived photos of the back covers any time you like from the 1930's onwards - Been a Nottingham forest fan and watcher (season ticket holder from 1984 -2014) but first started going to Forest matches in 1979 and I can tell you now that words never been used by any English fan.

[@improvesheffield4824]

My team? Sheffield Wednesday. So called because they were obviously founded on a Wednesday way back in 1867. They play at Hillsborough Stadium close to a historic part of Hillsborough called Owlerton (pronounced Oh-lerton), hence the nickname ‘the Owls’.