why football in England is BETTER than American soccer

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[@wessexdruid7598]

_"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."_ - Bill Shankly.

[@Isleofskye]

Along with Bryan Clough, still my greatest Manager as he created The Liverpool Football Empie from nothing:)

[@ianharrison3662]

And, as usual with Shankly, Vince Lombardi or another American football coach said it first.

[@Isleofskye]

@@ianharrison3662 Old Vincey was very quotable but he never said that or, most certainly, was never quoted as saying that. Now it's not widely known but Old Shanks was a fan of Vinito as illustrated in one of Bill's many famous quotes when he said that his idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of INVINCIBILITY. 😀. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually, everyone would have to submit and give in.”

[@kanedaku]

*_YNWA_*

[@billyhills9933]

You have to play football all year round to get a feeling for the seasons. Autumn, spring: You're wet, you're cold, and the mud is so thick your boots end up caked in it. At school we had a wall that was accepted as what you beat your boots against to get rid of the biggest lumps of mud. Winter: The stinging pain of a football hitting you on the thigh when you are freezing cold is like nothing you've ever felt. Summer: You start sweating as soon as you start running, and the ground is so hard that falling over causes bruising and a slide tackle removes the flesh from your leg.

[@raystewart3648]

Sounds like basic training for the Army.

[@paulinetill1043]

My son's played football from age 8 until they left school but I loved every second of it, as the only mom who went to every match I often got handed the dirty strips to wash which was fine when they were young but when they were teenagers yuk all those sweaty socks and strips were gross lol. my son eldest son was a defender and used to get horrific grazes from sliding tackles in the winter or if they had to play on Astro turf even now at 38 he has a patch of skin on his thigh that he says still feels like sand paper lol

[@joyfulzero853]

You shouldn't be playing in the Summer, give cricket its space.

[@mattybob12310]

core memory unlocked, the wall of Mud! :'D Also the sound of walking on Concrete paths in Studs down to the Pitch will stay with me my whole life

[@stujm84]

Playing football as a kid in the UK is so cheap. You need a ball, and 2 jumpers (jumpers for goalposts) and some mates. And your set. Play on a field, in a road, the playground or wherever.

[@leftmono1016]

This is why it’s the world’s game 👍

[@kb5509]

Thats tye same for sports in the US if you're just playing in your spare time. Theres still a cost to playing oeganised football in the UK, even if its not much.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

This is why nobody plays Cricket. How on earth do the Indians afford it?

[@leftmono1016]

@@Drew-Dastardly - two bats, home made. Home made stumps. The Indians are very resourceful 👍

[@neilbiggs1353]

@@Drew-Dastardly You know you can make a wicket by drawing the stumps on a wall with chalk? Or by using a cardboard box? Cricket just needs the bat which can be bought fairly cheaply and any kind of ball.

[@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns]

To be fair to American Hand Egg, it's a minor world sport, while Football is not just a major sport, it's the world's major sport. So, to criticise a minor sport for not matching up to a major one is a little unfair.

[@johnlabus7359]

Basically Americans don't care.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

The point is that hand egg is very much a ludicrously profitable American sport that has 1 minute of "action" per 20 minutes of adverts. The USA girls have taken on soccer/football without all that rubbish and all their totally PPE nonsense. I fully support them.

[@ianz9916]

The first established soccer league in America was the NASL, the North American Soccer League. It was founded in 1968 and folded in 1984. It's high point was when Pele went to play for New York Cosmos in 1975.

[@philipjones3517]

I think there was a decent level league prior to the Great Depression; there's a reason the US got the semi-finals of the 1930 World Cup (well apart from the fact that hardly anyone turned up to it)

[@Brookspirit]

The rest of the world has relegation and promotion, not just England, as far as I know, it's only the USA that doesn't have it.

[@michaelayling8855]

Canada is the same.

[@gailstevens6831]

Australia doesn't have relegation

[@barriehull7076]

21 football stadiums There are 21 football stadiums in London, including the largest stadium in the country: Wembley. But Wembley Stadium is only one of London's large stadiums - and there are plenty of smaller stadium grounds well known to football fans who travel to cheer on their team. West Ham play in the 2012 Olympic Stadium.

[@johnavery3941]

A very informative video Kalyn, you got almost everything spot on, I am Scottish and our supporters vary greatly from English ones though especially abroad but I did go to a match in Miami once and had to leave after 15 mins as the chants were to cringeworthy

[@loc4725]

*"the chants were to cringeworthy"* Let's go Brandon?

[@danmayberry1185]

(^ ignoring the w⚓ comment) On a clear day you can hear the Hampden Roar from Miami.

[@lawlore]

Nice vid- it'd be great to see you do a react video to football chants.

[@geoffclarke3796]

Great video Kalyn, you've certainly done your research. I've loved football (soccer) since I was 7 or 8 years of age in the late 1970's and a big Tottenham fan. As you say. hooliganism was a problem from the late 60's/early 70's to around 1990, peaking in the mid 80's and it was around this time that I stopped going to games as a few times got caught up in some very scary incidents. I resumed going to games in the 1999/2000 season and still go to a few games but not that many as tickets so expensive these days. Overall, the quality of the modern game is far superior though in part that is due to the fantastic pitches today compared to dreadful playing surfaces of the 70's and 80's which were mud heaps before the start of the winter. The game is also less violent on the pitch today, as in the 70's and 80's you had to virtually murder an opposition player before being sent off.

[@Marli-o4g]

COYS

[@tomlynch8114]

Yes the term ‘soccer’ originated from England but it did so as an upper class slang term to differentiate it from ‘Rugger’ (Rugby) in the infancy of both sports in the 1860s and 1870s both used the term ‘Football’ within their circles, as the games grew Association Football became more popular amongst the working classes and so spread further with more mass appeal, meaning that more people simply referred to it as Football and therefore in general terms Football became to be the de facto term for Association Football. Of course the term Soccer is still found in the UK but as a secondary substitute word for literary/media purposes. It is rarely used in official circumstances or in speech. Football like Rugby started as a game of the upper classes/aspiring middle classes with its upper class nickname but as it spread to become the mass popular sport of the working classes it shed its upper class nickname as it became ‘the people’s game’

[@wildthing6668813]

I remember in the 70's when I attended my local team's matches, depending on the match the away supporters could outnumber the home supporters. In one match the away supported were double the home supporter but the away supporter were know for violence if their team lost and on this occasion they lost and they kept the away supporters in the ground for about 20 minutes after the final whistle because of the violence they were known to cause after their team was defeated.

[@DougBrown-h1n]

Sounds like the average Palace vs Millwall match back in the day.

[@coolrottie2565]

Man United in Division 2 had a massive away support, outnumbering most home fans in the 74-75 season.

[@joyfulzero853]

I see you still say route (r-out) rather than route (root). Not having a go, but we will get you in the end.

[@Dir3ctH3X]

One thing you may want to add is that Football was seen as the working man's sport and a lot of the professional clubs have deep generation ties with their locations and fan base. This is less true in the global Premier League era, but it's still the core of the fan base. Often fans support a club because it's where they come from, or their family has supported them or there are community ties with that club for decades, even generations. It's also why a lot of clubs have interesting names that don't explain where they actual play - eg. Arsenal. In some towns you have two or more football clubs - Manchester , London and Glasgow which have intense and tribal rivalries.

[@AlanJones-kc4us]

We have a 'pyramid' system in the UK, where a side can go up the leagues, as well as go down them. The Championship (the league below the PL) has some of the highest crowds in Europe, so if you cannot get into a PL game, go to the Championship game, or any of the other EFL games, which are near you...

[@leftmono1016]

The Championship is a fantastic league, unless your team is stuck in it!

[@russellpotter7294]

Looking forward to your next deep dive in going through the great US players who have graced the English game over the years. As a Fulham fan may I suggest you start with one of all time favourite players Brian McBride. A brave ............(sorry I go on for several pages and take up far too much space) But more outside sneezing and eyes watering while blowing into a tissue and discussing football is just what we need.

[@joso7228]

English kids play football in the park, the back garden, the schoolyard, the schoolfield, the cow field, the street, the alley, the just about anywhere. You wait for your Soccer Mom to drive you somewhere.

[@maximushaughton2404]

When the Football Association was formed, it was so there was a difference between football and ruby football. There were lots of forms of football around at the time, the Football Association was set up to stanardise the rules of the game, and I believe it almost failed. The football/soccer thing is more of a class thing, the working class has always called it football, but the rich or well off called it soccer. The womens game used to be very popular in the UK, more popular than the mens game, then it got banned by a load of men, strange that. Also I am led to believe that soccer/football is starting to become the 2nd most watched sport in the US.

[@danmayberry1185]

U-S-A! You're Number Eight (and Ten) ... As of 2023, the most watched sporting events in the world are: World Cup of Soccer - 5 Billion Viewers Tour de France - 3.5 Billion Viewers Cricket World Cup - 2.6 Billion Viewers Women’s World Cup - 2 Billion Viewers Summer Games - 2 Billion Viewers Winter Games - 2 Billion Viewers UEFA Champions League Final - 450 Million Viewers Super Bowl - 115.1 Million Viewers Wimbledon - 25.6 Million Viewers NBA Finals - 17.8 Million Viewers

[@Poliss95]

210 million viewers for the snooker.

[@danmayberry1185]

@@Poliss95 That cheers me up - good one.

[@madmark1957]

Football has never been commonly called soccer anywhere in the UK. The term soccer was coined by an upper class guy at a public school who was asked what he was doing on saturday. He replied "Playing rugger (rugby) in the morning and soccer in the afternoon". He called it soccer as being a shortened version of Association Football. The Football Association (F.A.) runs football in England, while in Scotland it is the Scottish Football Association, and so on.

[@Isleofskye]

I like you and have Subscribed. The Premier League is aptly named as it IS the Number 1 league in the World. Home and Away fans are STRICTLY segregated not only in the Stadiums but en route to the Grounds. Tou touched on USA crowds being more "Family Friendly" while most European Country's mantra is "Father To Son" and 95% of attendees are Male and I am been going since 1962 hence the intensity and passion and, yes, Male aggression, sometimes. There is little time for Adverts in Football which is why USA TV Stations don't promote the adult game, I'm told. "15%" of Football players are Women?? Are they invisible. I saw a Female park game in 2019, the first I had seen in years.The majority of Females do not want to play in our Winters.

[@barriehull7076]

Wikipedia: Timothy Matthew Howard (born March 6, 1979) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He last played for USL Championship club Memphis 901, a club of which he is a minority owner. He is also international ambassador in the U.S. for former club Everton. He is regarded as one of the greatest American players of all time.[4][5][6] Howard began his career with the North Jersey Imperials, before making a move to the MetroStars. He was signed by English Premier League club Manchester United in 2003, replacing Fabian Barthez as the team's first-choice keeper. In his second season at the club, Howard competed for the first-choice spot with Roy Carroll. Howard enjoyed relative success with the club, as they won the 2003 FA Community Shield, the 2003-04 FA Cup and the 2005-06 League Cup.

[@S34NP4THURL]

Such a broad subject but we'll done on attempting it. That own goal sure left a scar eh?

[@eddiec1961]

Some American football fans are getting better at chants and I can understand the lack of rivalry in American football because of the distances.

[@davidguy209]

Use Piriton vs hay-fever. Awesome!

[@cutthr0atjake]

Rugby Football actuslly split into 2 different sports Rugby Union and Rugby League. Both follow different rules and even have different numbers of players in a tesm.

[@paulgreen758]

I played football into my 50s, dropped down the levels as I grew older, ill give you an example Trent Alexander Arnold was 1/500 that made it into the Liverpool side, hard to make it over here, probably just as hard in Grid Iron I expect, but if Reese Zammit Jones gets a chance he will light up for Kansas City Chiefs

[@richt71]

Hey Kaylyn. A footnote to your excellent video is did you know some of the top teams in the PL are owned by US tycoons? Manchester utd owned by the Glaziers, Arsenal by the Kroenke family, Chelsea by Todd Boehly and Liverpool by FSG (Headed by John Henry who also owns The Boston Redsoxs).

[@leftmono1016]

One of Villa’s joint owners is American. Done absolutely wonders for the club 😀

[@alangood8190]

Interesting and insightful.

[@carltontraveler8625]

Not only #1 in UK BUT #1 in the WORLD!!

[@abdulmalikkoiki]

Football is like a religion in the UK, and a way to know which " tribe" someone belong to like if you meet a person from Liverpool the next question you ask them is " blue" or "red" referring to the teams they support with respect to Everton or Liverpool FC.

[@stephm4047]

I never quite understood how football is not bigger in the US with all the italo and latino Americans living there.

[@jeff88701]

We’ll have to say Ted lasso got it right you should watch him he’s a legend 😊 very enjoyable vlog 👏👏

[@0venchip]

We used to call football soccer many years ago.

[@djs98blue]

Another big difference is European football clubs have their own academies so more or less completely bypass university or school sport and contract and develop their own players from children’s community teams at a very young age. This is why we have no draft. Instead players are purchased for a fee to buy them out their contract. Works quite well for some clubs as they can buy success, but at least ‘failed’ American sporting elites get a degree. Our clubs might spit out a ‘failed’ player at say 17 or 18 with very little…..

[@Poliss95]

@djs98blue European teams have feeder clubs too.

[@arthurjamesforbes6883]

Kalyn, much as I enjoyed this video (I am not that big a fan of the game), one thing that you SHOULD have mentioned is, that there are DIFFERENT football associations within in the UNITED KINGDOM. Each individual nation of the United Kingdom have their own international team and ONLY during the Olympics does there exist a team representing the WHOLE nation and goes by the name ‘Great Britain’. For instance Northern Ireland, Eire (Southern Ireland), Wales AND my own home nation, Scotland, have their own leagues and International teams. Indeed the FIRST EVER FIFA recognised International football (soccer) game was played between the United Kingdom nations of Scotland and England in the 19th Century (30th November 1872 to be exact). This event was held at a Scottish cricket ground in suburb of Partick, on the northern side of the River Clyde in the city of Glasgow. This match was played in front of 4,000 spectators. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Scotland_v_England_football_match

[@kb5509]

There isn't a Great Britain football team during the Olympics.

[@arthurjamesforbes6883]

​@kb5509 Yes, there has been en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_Olympic_football_team

[@Poliss95]

@@kb5509 There would be if the women had qualified but they didn't.

[@kb5509]

@@arthurjamesforbes6883 there has been, that's not what you said.

[@hughtube5154]

I wonder if esports (videogames) has overtaken football's popularity for the youth of today? I'd also add that the hooliganism of the 70s-80s was largely phased out by the switch from terraced stadia (where people stood) to all-seater stadia. Seats take up more space, meaning fewer people could attend matches, and the demand exceeding the supply drove costs up, pricing out a lot of working class fans in favour of a middle class with more disposable income. Good video, though.

[@leftmono1016]

I’m 51 and as a kid, computer games and Atari consoles were getting common. So this has been a thing for many decades.

[@Marli-o4g]

I think so by the number of trolls online who complain that players aren’t perfect (I assume because their avatars on whichever e-sports platform they’re using don’t get tired or injured or have a bad moment or game due to personal issues such as their kid being in hospital or something). Of course the fact that they’ve never got off their fat backsides to play the game in real life makes them an expert! 😂

[@popski3226]

Haha, ps! Forgot to say great video by the way kalyn 😂

[@maudeboggins9834]

The US is the only country that calls the globally popular sport "Soccer". The rest of the world calls it "Football, Fußball, Fútbol, Futebol" etc.

[@robert3987]

Australia and New Zealand use soccer!!!!!

[@billyhills9933]

@@robert3987 Doesn't football in Australia refer to (what everyone else calls) Aussie rules football?

[@seanmcmichael2551]

@maudeboggins And Ireland also refers to Soccer, as we have our own Football too.

[@jamiesimms7084]

​@@seanmcmichael2551In Ireland we call it football too

[@WookieWarriorz]

No we fucking don't lol ?????? We call football football and Gaelic football is always just called Gaelic. ​@@seanmcmichael2551

[@michaelmccarthy6464]

yes

[@ryklatortuga4146]

But you Have the best goalkeeper in the history of the sport in - SCOTT STERLING!

[@nathanialwashere2404]

the uk had a crime called football hoolaganism

[@marshac1479]

Clearly

[@mikedignum1868]

Even Cricket is liked in the USA.

[@AlBarzUK]

The USA played in the World Cup in 1950 and beat England ! What happened to soccer in the USA since then? 🤗

[@potownrob]

Soccer is an afterthought here in the states. It’s like they have it here just because they have to. That said, there are plenty of people who like soccer and like playing it. The other sports like American football, baseball, basketball and hockey take precedence over soccer when it comes to professional and college sports and you’ll see those on TV here before soccer. Whatever you do here, don’t try telling people that soccer is better than American football 😂 😡 😅

[@zhukov43]

Football culture which is football, fashion and music, are massively copied by other sports, there’s not a game like it, possibly the greatest export from England, I couldn’t love a game more, I also enjoy a few Stella’s whilst watching, 😂.

[@stephencurran9716]

This is a FOOTBALL ⚽

[@coolrottie2565]

U.S. match commentators 🤢 It might be better now, but when I first heard them it was like WTF.

[@robharris8844U]

Football is very cheap to setup for children all you need is a football and your jerseys as goal- posts! American football is very expensive for helmet, padding boots and you need odd shaped balls 😮

[@Stoggler]

You can do the same for American Football too - jumpers to mark the end zones and you play touch football, so no pads or protection required.

[@robharris8844U]

@@Stoggler Yes but that is still ✋️ handball and not football 😆😉

[@Stoggler]

@@robharris8844U ok, whatever

[@oldfailedgamer]

Nice video, BUT when talking about ENGLISH football, they do have their own flag 👉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@2eleven48]

Kalyn...I only watched (and thumbed-up) this because it's you, but I couldn't, dare I say, give a monkey's uncle about the actual subject. Robert, uk.

[@harristonmiller4399]

unfortunately football in the past has been associated with extremism groups

[@williambailey344]

Yes the ladies football/soccer are feared by other countries the US has dominated the sport. But England are good zbd will put up a good challenge to the US 😊

[@samg7697]

England just won the world cup, I think that's a little more than just putting up a good challenge for the US. USA has definitely dominated the sport, but other teams have finally caught up and now USA aren't the best. England, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, USA, Canada and Brazil all have decent teams now. USA didn't even get to the QFs in the world cup.

[@arthurjamesforbes6883]

@@samg7697England men’s team won the FIFA world cup in 1966 and hasn’t done so again since that time. The only home nation of the United Kingdom to do so. The English Women’s Football (soccer) team were the runners up in 2023 but have NEVER won it so far. In 1994 and 2014 the English Women’s Rugby football team won the Women’s Rugby Union World Cup.

[@samg7697]

@@arthurjamesforbes6883 you're, right my mistake. I was confusing the world cup with the Euros that they won the year prior.

[@zeeox]

The use of the term 'soccer' is very much a worldwide one, not just American. And that includes many countries where soccer/footie(!) is the biggest sport. Perhaps because of the lack of actual feet kicking American footballs in American Football beyond (punts and touchdown conversions), the British (or probably just the English) are particularly arrogant with defending the term 'football' (or rather, knocking the term 'soccer') against Americans... but it really should be fine to use interchangeably for the word origin reasons already explained in this video. For example, if you go to Ireland, many people also say 'soccer' there, too... although that might be because there is also the Gaelic code of football there as well as both rugby codes (mainly Union). But the same also goes in Brazil. They say both there too as far as I know, and there's no denying what the number one sport in that particular country is!

[@garryellison]

Clearly never been to a premier league match has all her knowledge from internet.

[@michaelwilkinson2928]

The best football is rugby football which is played with a naturally shaped ball.

[@leftmono1016]

Egg chasing 😔

[@Poliss95]

@michaelwilkinson2928 Union or League?

[@Luckie666]

I love American intelligence when it comes to sport the NBA/NFL champions are known as world champions. 😂😂😂😂. Football is ingrained in British culture. US has other sports that are way more popular

[@michaelayling8855]

doubt that.

[@kb5509]

A Frenchman invented the Champions League because the English called Wolves the world champions for beating a Hungarian team in a one off friendly.

[@Poliss95]

@@kb5509 The Champions League has only been going since 1992.

[@kb5509]

@@Poliss95 the European Cup, I'm using the champions league as it is now the name of the competition.

[@Luckie666]

@@kb5509 the French should be German

[@ajc389]

Soccer is the sport where the fans do the fighting and the players kiss and make up.

[@eddhardy1054]

0:55...Oh mate, you had me until you said 'on accident.' It should be 'by accident.'

[@bonvoyage5377]

At the moment, the England mens team is known for underperforming, note, NOT underachieving, theres a difference.The UK press almost entirely believe that the team is better than it actually is, nobody fears England, ask Iceland. The womens team is way more interesting to watch, win lose or draw, it seems more honest, no primadonnas, very very little theatricals, histrionics etc, and is doing really well in expanding the game for youngsters, especially girls. Im sure this post will upset the misogynists out there, who cares??

[@WookieWarriorz]

Relegation is by far the biggest difference.The united states has no relegation and talent is wasted forcing people to go to college. The best football players are playing professionally at 16. Messi was one of the best players in the world at 19, he would be wasted in a school.

[@AndrewJLeslie]

Brits usually say "by accident", rather than "on accident" Sorry to be a pedant. In the 1980s a Brit called John Smith played in the NFL as a kicker. He had a side business with "Soccer Camps" and I witnessed groups of kids flying into Logan to train.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

very true! one of those small differences

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

When you say Logan, do you mean the airport in Boston, or somebody of Irish extraction?

[@AndrewJLeslie]

@@Psmith-ek5hq Boston Logan Airport. Sorry I wasn't explicit.

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

@@AndrewJLeslie Don't apologize, I was only pulling your leg. lol

[@joyfulzero853]

Don't be sorry. The language needs some protection.

[@robertwoolstencroft5946]

Not just Rugby it's either Rugby union or Rugby 🏉 League two different codes.😊😊😊

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

didn't know that, thanks!

[@sasserine]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Union is the original, a game for 'gentlemen', that originated at a private school in Rugby, and is still considered the 'posh' version. A schism occured, in my home county in 1895, when the working class players were having trouble paying their bills, as they were having to take unpaid time off work, to take part. They asked their clubs for compensation for the lost workday, but were refused, and split from the Union to form their own League, which paid players a wage. This is why League is still considered the 'common' version. There's noticeable differences in the rules, from the points scored for tries (equivalent to a US touchdown) and the post-try goal kick, to the mobility of the game. In Union you keep possession of the ball as long as you can keep it. League forces a team to transfer possession to the opposing team after 6 tackles, so you try to make each one count.

[@philipebbrell2793]

​@@GirlGoneLondonofficial The clubs split in the early 1860s over the rules of football. Association and Union (becoming Rugby) followed different paths. Union had a split with Northern Union split to become Rugby League. My old Rugby team Wasps, was called Wasps Football Club. The American Ivy league colleges played rugby, but it was deemed too violent. This lead to the development of American Football. As the USA was isolationist and Anti-British (see Old Britannia youtube for more), they preferred to develop their own games for their new citzens. Cricket was also big in the States, (1st Cricket interntionl between Cananda & USA in the 1840s and Winslow Homer engraved a cricket match on Boston common in 1850s) but the ACW and shifting to a simpler summer game, baseball at the end of the 19th century.

[@davebanko4759]

As a fellow American living in the UK for more than 10 years, I really appreciate the promotion/relegation system in the UK. I think it gives teams more to play for at the end of the season even when not in the hunt for a trophy because the move to a higher or lower league is a big deal in prestige and investment! In the US, it sometimes seems like professional sports team at the bottom of the league appear to lose games intentionally to get a higher draft pick.

[@Stand663]

What’s a draft pick ? Please can you explain.

[@stuartcarden1371]

​​@@Stand663- Brit here but I follow American football a little. A draft pick is where professional teams pick college players to join the professional ranks. Typically the worst performing professional team from the previous season gets first choice of the best college players and as such, there can be an advantage to losing on purpose in order to get an earlier pick of college players in next season's draft. Americans please add to or correct anything I got wrong

[@maudeboggins9834]

I lived in the UK in the 90's & followed Fulham I watched them even though they were so low down in the league then slowly & steadily they made their way up I left when the reached the Premier Division. A usual Saturday would be 4,5000 people but on the big game between Wigan & Fulham to get elevated to the top division the audience/fans attending me included was 11,000.

[@Stand663]

@@stuartcarden1371 Thank you. I’ve learnt something new 👍

[@steveallen3434]

@@stuartcarden1371 What I don't understand is the players has no choice who they get to play for

[@barriehull7076]

Is it premiere or premier? Premiere, with an e at the end, refers to the first public performance or showing of something, such as a movie or play. It can be a noun or a verb-for example, a movie premieres at its premiere. Premier, without the e, is (1) an adjective meaning first in status, and (2) a noun denoting a prime minister. Premier League.

[@danmayberry1185]

The UK is more of a walking culture than the driving-crazy US. Could be that UK fitness lends itself better to 90 minutes of running with a 15-minute break.

[@djs98blue]

I work at Loughborough university. We are ranked number one in the world for sports related subjects. It’s true university sport isn’t as big in the UK but believe me in one part of the East Midlands it’s huge! We’ve won the national university sports competition for decades and our football team was asked to leave the university league for being too good.

[@jamesbeeching6138]

I went to MARJONS who were a big "sporting" University College!!

[@Nanonic001]

Outside of the US - if you haven't been scouted or joined a football team's academy by age 14, you've missed the change to be professional.

[@richardwani2803]

Football is massive all over the world its played in over 200 countries only America and Canada call it soccer

[@neilbiggs1353]

I believe it's also called soccer in Australia and Ireland as they have their own forms of football. They just picked up the British word, soccer, for convenience

[@simonblackham4987]

Why is there "soccer Saturday" on Sky TV every weekend in England during the season, if that term is not used here? In England there are three types of football ... rugby, rugby league and association football ... as kids (in the 1960s) we played "soccer", short for association football, at primary school ... at senior school, if you went to (state) grammar school, private (ie paid for) or public (also paid for) school you played Rugby football ... and if you went to other state secondary schools, you tended to play soccer. The state education system has been changed over the years and football of either kind tended to be a more extra-curricular choice of the individual. Rugby league split from Rugby because it was played up North by working men and they paid them expenses which was regarded as professionalism and not allowed in the "amateur" game. (Edited for typos)

[@richardwani2803]

@@simonblackham4987 what meant was that regular people in the UK don't call it that and soccer Saturday wasn't always called that it was called sports Saturday they changed the name to be different from their competitors although soccer was used we stopped calling it soccer in the mid 80s but you knew very well what I meant in the first place you were just trying to make yourself big and clever

[@simonblackham4987]

@@richardwani2803 No ... I was telling you my experience of how we called it soccer many yesrs ago, the reason why, and how even today, it is somrtimes referred to as soccer in England.

[@MrKnowledge0014]

​@@simonblackham4987 Nobody calls it soccer in England, Even the origin of soccer is still football. Calling it soccer is just wrong no matter what country you're in.

[@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc]

As a take it or leave it football fan, I think you have taken this particular divisive topic 'bull by the horns' & produced a real thoughtful docu. Kudos to you.....if you can explain the offside rule! LOL!

[@dprid]

One thing I've noticed is that in the USA is that there is practically no organised sport for adults once they leave school or college. Want to play the most popular US sports once you leave school? Forget it, it just doesn't exist. By comparison, most towns in the UK will have a rugby club, cricket club, tennis club, running club, netball club, (field) hockey club, badminton club, table tennis club, squash club, bowls club etc etc. And it will have multiple football clubs, from potentially semi-pro right down to Sunday League pub sides, all playing in organised tiered leagues. That kind of thing just doesn't seem to exist much in the USA. I'm a runner, and I have probably the best part of 20 running clubs within a 10 mile radius of where I live. I went to California to see my mother-in-law, and her town of 200,000 people has a single small running club, mostly full of ultra-running specialists. Outside of 'country club' type sports (golf, tennis, squash etc), there is just so little opportunity for adults to play competitive sports in the USA.

[@barriehull7076]

"Send to Coventry" is an idiom used in England meaning to deliberately ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by not talking to them, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist. Coventry is a historical cathedral city in the West Midlands county.

[@CovBloke1310]

🙂🙂🙂

[@dariengoodwin]

The gender divide in England was caused by decisions made just after World War 1. During WW1 women's football was extremely popular with some huge crowds at stadiums. BUT just after WW1 the Football Association decided that football was not an appropriate for women and girls who played as youngsters had nowhere to go to continue playing the game. Even when the women's football ban was removed in 1971, women's football was not taken seriously for a long time and it was not until this century that it came of age with the successes of the women's national team. There is a long way still to go, but 50 years of a ban explains why female involvement in football is lower in the UK than the US.

[@Isleofskye]

I am in my 8th decade in London and the last time I saw any Women playing a proper match was in South East London around 5 years ago and I remember it as that was the first time for decades. So where are all these current Women players other than a few having a kickabout here or there?

[@Isleofskye]

I am referring to local parks etc...

[@32446]

It’s a sport in the USA. It’s a religion in the UK

[@jarvisa12345]

2:42 Strictly speaking, ‘cleats’ are the protrusions on the sole of the shoe - ‘studs’ in the UK. Cleats are also shoes with cleats.

[@JazzFunk22]

Cleats wtf good old football boots.....🙋🏻‍♂️

[@barriehull7076]

by accident please, lol. Google: Is it by accident or accidentally? The correct phrase (adverb) to use traditionally, is: 'by accident'. It means by mistake or something that's done without the intention of doing it. For example, “she spilled the milk by accident.” We can also use the word 'accidentally' as a replacement for by accident - just two ways of referring to the same thing.

[@georgedyson9754]

I have always been curious why US Football is called that when feet don't seem to be as important as hands. I don't see much kicking unless there is a foul but I see a lot of handing off the ball and throwing the ball.

[@KevinPugh-hq8rc]

I recall as a kid, all we need were a playing field, 2 jumpers for the goal posts a ball, and a few kids. Many kids played football on the road. As for the word soccer, in Wales football is used for rugby football. So in Wales you will still use soccer.

[@dlaidles]

It was called football. Soccer was for posh kids at college that played rugby. The working English class that invented it named it football.

[@Poliss95]

@dlaidles I have The Boy's Book of Soccer for 1960. The term 'soccer' only became unpopular when the Americans took it up.

[@dlaidles]

@@Poliss95 Newcastle United FC was created in 1892. FC stands for football club.

[@dlaidles]

@@Poliss95 soccer comes from the term asSOCiated football.

[@Poliss95]

@@dlaidles I live in Newcastle. I can see the stadium from my window. It's a 5 minute walk away. I know exactly what it stands for. Newcastle United Football Club is a member of the Football Association.

[@Poliss95]

@@dlaidles Wrong. Soccer comes from the term Association Football, not 'Associated' Football.

[@Poliss95]

The BIG sports news is that the USA beat Pakistan at the T20 cricket world cup. That would be like a high school team beating the Super Bowl champions. 😁😁Cricket is a far superior game to football. I scored an own goal at school too. I was always the last pick on any team. There's still a show called Soccer Saturday on Sky. Or at least there was the last time I looked. Are you sure about them being called cleats? Surely those are the studs on the bottom? Football is so popular because all you need to play it is a ball (any kind of ball) and a couple of jumpers or school blazers for goalposts.

[@stuarthartley7428]

Nicely put, really quite lucid. Nice job miss.

[@birmingham2066]

"On accident" I have heard Americans say that before most of us here say "by accident" just thought would let you know lol

[@MisterChrisInTheUK]

Maybe she said it 'by purpose'? ;)

[@jrt818]

In the UK they live in a street while in the US we live on a street.

[@popski3226]

You guy’s have just hosted the World Cup T20 cricket 🏏 in New York and Florida’ and West Indies. The USA 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 both teams played amazingly!!! 👏👏👏👏 and should be proud of there Pro-Formances it was very entertaining! 🙌🏏😃

[@ChubbBates-mh5xp]

If you look at the top players in England and Europe,a lot of these players are world famous.Most people over here would find it hard to name 2 American football stars.

[@andrewwhite3793]

I was brought up with imperial and started learning at school about metric where we were given a wooden ruler with Metric & Imperial on it. I served my time as an electrician just as the trade was going metric. Today if you have a tape measure in your drawer and most do then like the wooden ruler I got in 1968 it has both Metric & Imperial on it. Basically you cannot go wrong when measuring something.

[@DarrenClapson-nt9lq]

Sunday League is possibly the greatest single cultural artefact of modern Britain.

[@TukikoTroy]

When I was a kid (1960s/70s) in the UK, we called it soccer. It was a soccer ball and a soccer pitch; slowly changed around that time I think.

[@SubjectRandom21]

One of the biggest subjects not studied is the fact that, as you say, soccer is derived from Association Football. Association > soc > soccer.

[@Harrison5ived]

The reason for University (College) sport not being the same in the UK as it is in the States is because, for a lot of sports such as Football, it isn't the stepping stone to the professional game. In the USA, kids will play sports in high school, be recruited to play for top colleges and then from there go into the draft system to be selected by pro teams. That's not how it works in England. Professional football teams have youth academies, which scout the best young children, sign them up and continue their training all the way to the pro level (if they're good enough). So instead of the LA Lakers drafting some 21/22 year old out of university, imagine they sign an 11/12 year old kid and develop him into a pro level player over the next 8-10 years.

[@billspencer9430]

Remember the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the old NASL (1970s)

[@danmayberry1185]

NY Cosmos, Vancouver Whitecaps, Chicago Sting - had season's tickets, great atmosphere

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Good video GGL!! There is definitely still a fair bit of hooliganism in English football...In March I went to see Bristol City vs Cardiff and there were loads of fights!! Including police horses charging a bunch of Cardiff fans!!😅😅😅😅🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

[@101steel4]

Welsh football too then.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Does the US have live TV coverage of soccer matches? How do they fit the commercial breaks into it?

[@KC-gy5xw]

Women's football was very big, until the FA said women's teams couldn't play in the Men's grounds... one of the biggest attended games was a Women's game in the early part of the 20th century. Hooliganism - makes me laugh, as the Dutch are the worse, to this day. However, an honourable mention for the Millwall Brick - their fans would bowl into a match with that days Times newspaper (a weighty tome) - they would then proceed to fold them in a certain way to make a weighty tool with which to beat the opposition! Marvellous...

[@ethelmini]

Notably during the First World War, no men's football for spectators.

[@ethelmini]

Low level footy - Sunday League

[@Isleofskye]

At Millwall,we , naturally, read The Sunday Times Supplements which were renowned for their in-depth journalism, high-quality photography and an extensive range of subject matter before using it as the aforementioned "weighty tool"...

[@merseydave1]

I will explain to you/all how the "S" word came about ... The very first governing body for The Now World Game of FOOTBALL started in England in 1863. It was called The FOOTBALL Association (the word Association = meaning "the same grouping for a joint purpose) its now called The English FOOTBALL Association. Back the (1863) The English Upper Class officiated and played FOOTBALL. In 1871 The Rugby Union was formed to officiate "Rugby" named after the Southern English University Town, this was the Oval ball handling game (of which Grid Iron stemmed from). Again it was the English Upper Class who officiated and played the game. The English Upper Class (The one's who colonized America) liked to Nick-Name people and Organization's ... so they said "Rahggah" for Rugby and "Soccer" shortening The Football "Association" governing Body for FOOTBALL!. So in reality "Soccer" is a Nick-Name word ... as The World Name for The World Game is FOOTBALL and here I can PROOVE IT ...Lets take a look at the meaning of our World Governing body called F.I.F.A. meaning Federation International FOOTBALL Association ... FOOTBALL is The World Name, fact!.

[@merseydave1]

Some more history for you North Americans ... around 1880 the oval ball handling-throwing game of Rugby Union was brought from England to the U.S. and Canadian Collages. Over some 20 year, you changed the rules of play and turned it into your silly grid iron game! ... How many of You knew that ???

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Some venues have autism friendly suites for fans who find the regular experience that bit too overwhelming. Some couldn't care less.

[@Angusmum]

It’s easy to describe football because to play the game you need a ball and you kick it with your foot. Picking it up with your hands is a NO-NO.

[@Poliss95]

@susanroberts2289 Except if you're the goalie or taking a throw in.

[@Angusmum]

@@Poliss95 Of course 😃👍

[@martinowton7210]

Away supporter tickets are limited by the home club. Most sell out in the PL, leaving supporters trying to source tickets among the home supporters

[@exeterjedi6730]

The US Soccer Federation was called the US Football Association then the US Soccer Football Association until 1974. Football is the official name of the sport in the Olympics regardless of the hosts, including the US.

[@Truffle_Pup]

0:28 being a football fan is knowing what it feels like to sit in the San Siro, experience the sheer volume of the crowd, and to beat AC in their own back yard. "Molto Bene!" 😘👌