Football is the most popular game in England：one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this．Rich or poor, young or old, one can see them all there, shouting for one side of the other． To a stranger, one of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have．He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams; he has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches．He will tell you who he expects to win in such and such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three of 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 have to learn to work with others for his team, instead of for himself alone． | 
