Football in England

Soccer, football to the British, plays a significant role in British culture. Football has been around in England since before anyone can remember; it controls a piece of everyone’s life that lives there. It has been part of the culture so long that supporting the home team is a way of life. Sometimes this support goes too far.

Association football in England is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the of rules for the code were established in 1806, which were in turn a major influence on the development of the modern laws of the game. England has the major number of clubs involved in the code than any other country.

England is home to association football club, the oldest national governing body, the first national team, the oldest national knockout competition ad the oldest national league. Today England’s top domestic league, the premier league is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world and in home to some of the world’s most famous football clubs.

England is one of the right national teams to have won the FIFA world cup, which they did in 1966 when they hosted the finals. Since then after their victory over Germany, their best performance at a world cup was a fourth place finish in 1990. The traditional rivals and England are Scotland and Wales. England has no permanent home stadium. They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the home nations on a tour of central Europe in 1908.

Walter Winterbotton was appointed as England’s first ever full time manager in 1946; the team was still picked by committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963. Their traditional; home colours are white shirts, navy blue shorts and white socks. The team has periodically worn an all white kit. Umbro and Admiral have been the main designing of the England kits.

The rivalry between England and Germany is considered to be solely an English phenomenon in the run-up to any competition match between the two teams, many English newspapers print articles detailing results of previous encounters, such as those in 1966 and 1990. Football fans in England often consider Germany to be their main sporting rivals and care more about this rivalry than those with other nations, such as Argentina or Scotland. Most German football fans, however, take little interest in their rivalry with England, and instead consider the Netherlands to be their traditional foot balling rivals. As of August 2011, England holds a narrow lead in victories according to FIFA, with twelve wins to Germany's eleven.

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