Question: what's typically British?

XaviMessiGirl said:

The insulting opposing clubs/players isn't just an English thing, I hear it a lot in Serie A too for example.

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Its is the same everywhere and is just as bad in Spain.

I got loads for you Galning but I am cooking atm so will give you some of my thoughts later tonight.

Although i'll give you this link for some ideas:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_football_in_England

Some good links:-

http://www.thefa.com/about-football-association/history

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/History/HistoryDetail/0,,10794~1357277,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England–Scotland_football_rivalry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_clubs_in_European_football

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_non-League_football_system

Also mention the Hillsborough Disaster what effect that had on the english game in terms of new stadia, safety etc. There are loads of stuff you can google on this subject.

Also something which was significant to the english game was Puskas and Co. beating England in the 50's. This had a huge affect on the english game.



Also do research on these men who were key in the evolution of the game in England:-

Herbert Chapman
Stan Cullis
Don Revie
Matt Busby
Bill Shankly
Bob Paisley
Bill Nicholson
Alf Ramsey
Bobby Robson

They helped change the identity of kick and rush football towards a better way of playing.

Best way to do it is Chronologically. Thus when the FA was created when the FA Cup was created when the Football League was created. From the great teams of the decades:-

1880's Preston

1890's Aston Villa and Sunderland

1900's Newcastle

1920's Huddersfield

1930's Arsenal

1950's Wolves and Man U

1960's Spurs, Man U, Liverpool, Everton and Leeds

1970's Leeds and Liverpool

1980's Liverpool and Everton

1990's Man U

2000's Man U and Arsenal and Chelsea

The FA Cup was seen as bigger than the league title up until the 80's.

People in the 40's and 50's and 60's either didn't have a television or had only one. It was a time when sports were hardly on television and everyone came together as a family or neighboured to watch the FA Cup final.

Which is why the likes of Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney were revered.

You can talk about the advent of television how that had an affect on the game. Research Match of the Day in the 1960's onwards to the ITV deal in the 80's-90's and Sky in the 90's.

Talk about how the World cup win for England in 1966 changed the football culture in england forever. Do your research on that.

Talk about hooliganism from all the British nations in the 70's and 80's and how that changed football.

Talk about how the perception of the european cup and european competition changed when Man U under Busby competed against Madrid and how Liverpool's domination of europe under Paisley changed things too.

Losing penalty shootouts.

Choking in important moments in big matches.

Overhyping their players and national team.



*sorry, but it was too tempting*

Galning,

You can write about Cricket and the famous Ashes rivalry between Australia and England.

Edit: Just saw that you're gonna write about football,

How about hooliganism in english football? Even though it may sound wrong if you call it typical british/english.

He asked for stuff was was "typically British". I think he was talking more about current sporting culture than the history of it.

Jenks said:

He asked for stuff was was "typically British". I think he was talking more about current sporting culture than the history of it.

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Yeah exactly. It can be history though but it just has to be something that's only done in Britain.. like the pies Sunny mentioned. I am not allowed to say "In Europe they do X as well but way less.."

Thanks Ed, will check the links out tomorrow. It's pretty late here.

DonAK said:

Losing penalty shootouts.

Choking in important moments in big matches.

Overhyping their players and national team.



*sorry, but it was too tempting*

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I skimmed through this and most of it sounded negative? Why not creating songs? The Mario Balo song was amazing. I don't see other countries create as many songs but maybe because I don't speak other languages?

I would consider this to be typically British

sunburn in holidays

Us Brits have become more patriotic over the past 10 years. More so than we used to be. Food companies advertise "British strawberries" or "packed in Britain" to sell more products. It's a sense that we prefer British things over foreign, so not to give money to foreign companies.
We've become more patriotic in all sorts of international sports and contests too. In a sense, "proud to be British" or "proud to represent the United Kingdom" is a saying that's becoming more common everywhere.
This might not answer your question directly, but it's a change in British society. Things typically British? Hang out in pubs, enjoy flying abroad to visit sandy beaches, and our busy society. Monday to Friday we don't have time to socialise with anybody, everybody's at work. It's usual routine for grown ups. Wake up early, go to work, come back late in the evening feeling tired. We only have time to socialise on Sundays or off days.

I'm not sure I agree about patriotism in the UK. If anything I'd say patriotism became tied to nationalism and so we've shied away from it more and more over the years. 2012 I think was probably a bit of an aberration, what with the Royal Wedding, Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics coming all in the same year.

I disagree. I don't think I've ever heard as many references to British consumer goods as in the past few years. 'British strawberries', 'British wheat', 'British grain', 'British cars', 'British manufactured'. I hear it everywhere. Being British is one of the biggest complements to products these days.

It's not a compliment, they add that tag because they know consumers want to support British farmers, that's all. I've never seen it attached to anything other than foodstuffs, personally.