英语国家文化

English Football Culture

Key words: Culture, English, Football

In today’s world, football has become the world's first sport. World Cup has become a platform for the football player to show their level of football, but also in front of the world’s peo ple. Because of football, the world of people linked to together, although football originated in China, but the modern football started in the United Kingdom. Rules, professional, football managers and game system complete leagues, they have been found in the late 19th century. The professional football is considered as a new life start to 20 century.

The rise of English football

Early in the 19th century, the British initially realized urbanization. With the revolution, more and more went to city and lived in towns. Accompanied by a fundamental change in production technology and economic development, the quality of people's life changed, people's material needs were meet, then it needed to pursue a higher level, spiritual and cultural level of demand were transported. Football developed rapidly in this environment. First a large number of workers who were physically strong had some leisure time for sport and fun to play as entertainment. Second the people play football found their own spiritual sustenance, quickly established a lot of football teams in industrial cities such as Manchester, Newcastle. A factory as a unit, a streets as a unit, there were a variety of units. You can imagine the scene at that time, you can also imagine how much the exciting of football emergence, which is not difficult to understand why the English has so strong football tradition, so deep feelings.

A unique feature of English football

The traditional working class feature of English football is most obvious in Europe and around the world. It is the civilian population, and can be said really belong to the people. This feature of the working class, the mass base and passionate people are beneficial to the early development of football, is no doubt that they are the important factors for English football rapidly growing. But in the second half of the 20th century, more and more reflected its limitations, mainly the quality from players to fans were not high, they were no culture, and even against science, for example, workers' eating habits were more casual, less healthy, especially the drinking habits to the athlete’s body was very unfavorable; employees with not high quality was difficult to lead to other sectors integrate, for example, is said that a lost of children eager to play the football but could not stand the brutal and vulgar of the youth football coach, forced to give up the dream of become a professional football player.

Change to middle-class

The change begins to the second half of the 20th century, with the development of society, many workers gradually entered the middle class through generations of struggle. The dominant of British society was middle class not the working class, which had much more money. They began to change football by the impact of development of other countries and other industries, to explore the greater value, advertising, television and the early 1990s of the Premier League came into being. A lot of new elements join into English football such as large injection of funds, many foreign coaches and players, which was especially import to the high-level league. Now the Premiership undoubtedly on behalf of the world's highest level and most successful commercial operation, while the middle class has become the world's leading, such as ticket prices than a decade or two turning several times, the working class almost can not to pay so much high fares, the Premiership is the world of rich.