Football is the most popular game in England: you can go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich or poor, young or old, people are all there, shouting for one side or the other.
To a stranger, one of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game that even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in the famous teams. He has pictures of them and knows the results of many matches. He will tell you who he expects to win and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times his age.
In England, it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling the boy's mind with facts in the classroom; education also means the training of character; and one of the best ways of training character is by means of games, where the boy and girl learn to work with others for his team, instead of for himself alone