Football

Football is the UK’s national and most popular sport and has a huge following across the nation. A huge amount of money is invested into football clubs every year and the game is big business, with clubs offering outrageous sums of money for players and television channels desperately trying to outbid each other for the rights to televise the most popular matches. There is occasional controversy over how much clubs pay their players, particularly if a player is involved in a scandal in the press. Clubs play in a league system with the Premier league being the most prestigious; the premiership is also where the money is to be found with the price of season tickets reaching nearly one thousand pounds for some clubs, although this does not deter many hardcore fans who will attend every match their favourite team plays in the season. Money is also made through a variety of merchandising, team shirts, scarves and various other branded items of official merchandise are sold at a high profit.

Football is also enjoyed by many people other than the spectators who attend matches or watch televised games from home, there are many amateur leagues all over the country which sees players who just enjoy the game in their free time competing in friendly matches.