When English football club Aston Villa played local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, it was the 108th time the two teams had met.
The first game on Saturday September 8, 1888, was the opening weekend of the first football league in the world. It was also the genesis of professional football that today is worth more than £4 billion (US$4.87 billion) a year in combined revenues to the clubs in the top English league alone, according to Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance.
The game has come a long way from its humble roots but the essence of English football — a gritty yet glamorous game that fuses together a potent cocktail of flair, passion and bitter historic rivalries — has endured, making the game in England not just the most lucrative on the planet but also the most watched. The English Premier League reaches an audience of more than 3 billion people, according to 2014/15 numbers from sporting data analyst, Repucom. Full story...
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The first game on Saturday September 8, 1888, was the opening weekend of the first football league in the world. It was also the genesis of professional football that today is worth more than £4 billion (US$4.87 billion) a year in combined revenues to the clubs in the top English league alone, according to Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance.
The game has come a long way from its humble roots but the essence of English football — a gritty yet glamorous game that fuses together a potent cocktail of flair, passion and bitter historic rivalries — has endured, making the game in England not just the most lucrative on the planet but also the most watched. The English Premier League reaches an audience of more than 3 billion people, according to 2014/15 numbers from sporting data analyst, Repucom. Full story...
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