Football has come a long way and has gone through various changes in order to develop into the popular game we know today. Football has developed into the most popular and diffused sport in the world, and has gone from being a game to also a business with commercial success being of uppermost importance. <Tab/><Tab/> There have been reports made by various sources suggesting that football …showed first 75 words of 2249 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2249 total…play football competitively. Consequently the character and ethos of the game changed, and increasing spectatorism led to the eventual professionalism of football. Football then developed at a rapid pace and quickly became the most popular sport in England. It can be concluded that the British, or more specifically the English were crucial in the development of football into its modern form, and also in the subsequent diffusion of football around the British Empire and beyond.