Seriously though, why does England have such a massive league system...

Seriously though, why does England have such a massive league system, whilst the Spanish and German leagues start drifting off into B teams and mud pitches about two divisions off the top level?

Germany doesn't that much afaik

In Spain it's about state centralization

Up the Cocks!

Cause every man and his dog here want to play football

And from all those 26 million english """""males""""all of them suck balls. Really makes ya think

Disregard this, were all lazy siesta having donkey lovers

>Disregard this, were all lazy siesta having donkey lovers
You dont even know how to write your own language. Paki spotted

Still, while football is pretty big, you also have quality leagues in rugby union, league and cricket. That's a lot of sports to care about, how does that work?

Germany has another 20 million people more than you, and they have basically one huge sport.

During the early days of organised football, there was fuck all else the working class at the factories could do for fun beyond watching/playing football across Britain and especially in the major industry towns like Sheffield, Nottingham and the rest of the midlands. This is also where the 3pm kick off comes from, as the factories would finish work for the week around midday on Saturday. And basically as time has gone on the tradition was past on from generation to generation to the point where it is still sustainable for 100~ clubs to be fully professional despite all the other entertainment options on offer.

Disputed what you see from all the kids on Sup Forums people love to support there local club.
It's changing tho, our football is becoming more and more premier league centric with the younger generation not interested in there local and more into watching football on TV.

A history of a high amount of amateur teams for a long time without state intervention. Football was a cultural phenomenon during the 1860s-1900s, when for half of that time professionalism was officially banned. But crucially, until 1885 there was no official league. You set up a club and arranged your own fixtures. Anybody could create a club with their friends, company, or school and ask your other friend in the next town for a regular fixture. Say each club has 18 men, one of those 18 men will know another guy in another club who knows another guy in another club, and that's how regular matches were established. It was total decentralisation.

In 1885 the Football League was established, but for a long time there existed these parallel leagues which had grown from informal relationships between clubs. For example the Southern League contained teams like Tottenham, Portsmouth, and Southampton, who did not play against teams in the Football League like Aston Villa, Sheffield United, and Sunderland (in 1900 these 6 teams finished in the top 3 of their respective leagues). The only real nationwide competition was the FA cup. From 1900 to 1905, a Southern league team was in the FA cup final each year (Tottenham winning it twice), so you can see during this period that the true best teams in the country did not play in the same league. The Southern League also contained absolute literal whos, like Cowes, Gravesend, and Sheppey United. In a country where there is a strict tier system, these teams cannot get games against top opposition, so fans do not come, and the club gets no support. Perhaps these teams die, or perhaps they merge with others. There were other leagues which were not as strong as the Southern League, but the holdout to the Football League's monopoly on every top team lasted until around the end of WWI. This is 40 years after its establishment and 60 years after the establishment of the FA and the FA cup.

I play in the Essex Senior League. It's barely even worth mentioning.

This decentralisation is sort of similar to football in Brazil, which contains a lot of teams as well.

Also football in Britain was well-established before mass-media and at the early days of mass transport. This meant if you want to watch football, you go watch the local team. You could read about the exploits of Preston NE in the newspapers, but if you were a poor miner living in Merthyr Tydfil, you had no chance to go watch them.

Small clubs have survived on tradition, and roots in the community. I played for an amateur team in the United Counties League.

Neat, don't be harsh on yourself, tier 9 is bretty good.

I actually had heard of Enfield 1893 but only because of the bollocks with Enfield FC

>FC Romania
>Sporting Bengal
>Tower Hamlets FC

Not white though are you pal?

London Bari started off as a team made up of Italian expats as well. That was years ago though. I'm at Stansted, so one of the whiter teams, though Dwight Gayle did start here a few years ago.

Germany is a cultural void and Spain is an embarassing third world shithole.

>Still, while football is pretty big, you also have quality leagues in rugby union, league and cricket. That's a lot of sports to care about, how does that work?
>Germany has another 20 million people more than you, and they have basically one huge sport.

Europeans are lower energy than Brits

I think you guys are more anti-social and aren't up for adventure

If you're a fucking German misery then you won't have any friends to go to games with

What's the difference between Germany, Spain and England?

Out league now is pretty fucked up and they say they want to copy the system of these 3

>Out
our

>B teams and mud pitches
>English ignorance
even out 8th tier teams have proper pitches most of the time

Also, Britain is full of weird boffin anorak types who see no issue with standing on a rainy terrace in Barnstaple with a flask of tea on their own.

(and I think 8th or 9th tier is bottom of the barrel here, "Kreisklasse")

>standing on a rainy terrace in Barnstaple with a flask of tea on their own
Sounds like a nice way to spend the afternoon, I don't see an issue with that either.