England-Kosovo: A small English town beats 100 Pristina

Boris Johnson, Britain's current prime minister, may be a very strange and interesting person but politics in this country is not seen as our country, as an event that repeatedly offers entertainment and show. This may be that the British take their fate a little more seriously.

But this great European people, however, have something to enjoy. In addition to numerous cultural forms, there is a sport they call soccer.

Football as a sport, we pretend to know Kosovars too. We saw him on TV. We've also seen it at the “Fadil Vokrri” stadium. But that claim is not: What is seen on television is a big misunderstanding. And we still miss the stairs to our city stadiums.

TV football isn't real.

In Britain football is linked to community life, to the working class, to local city industries and towns. Suppose, in the four categories of English football [not including Wellsian, Irish or Scottish football], 92 clubs belong. And these 92 clubs lie in different towns on the island, some giant, some small ones. And beyond these 92 clubs, there are hundreds more that remain under the full organisation and push of local fans.

What takes your breath and amazed is not Premier League itself, it's not very dynamic football and quality players, but the extraordinary fans that have preserved the nucleus despite the frightening degradation of globalisation.

The confessions about the exploits of these local fans have no count. Periscope a few months earlier for her readers had translated an article showing The remarkable formation and popularity won by women's football in the '20s.

So, there was never any question of tired infrastructure, nor of the quality of the offered football, as much as of values and community life.

In 2005, Manchester United had finished in third place at Premier League after Chelsea and Arsenal. The first was a club owned by a Russian billionaire, and the second was a club trained by a creative Frenchman. Fearing that it might fall down, United was sold to American billionaire Malcolm Glazer. That caused The unrest in Manchester. Much more devastating and terrible than those of the opposition in Kosovo on various nationalist issues in recent years.

The Troubles in Manchester

What follows illustrates the essence of this scripture even better: Manchester United local fans formed their team, United of Manchester, and claimed to inherit the true values of the former club.

The same had happened to other teams. When fans of the famous Wimbledon team had understood the owners' plans for building the club stadium in another town, they had protested and had finally formed a club.

From the ninth category, they managed to climb the club into the third category. AFC Wimbledon at the time as a player had recruited members of the fans himself, while today plays giants like Ipswich, Sunderland and so on, and plans to join Premier League.

Besides, you've probably heard about the Portland team. This club had competed in Premier League from 2003 until 2010, when they even banked the owners. In 2008 this club was able to win the FA Cup. After banking, however, things got so bad that there was no fate thought of but extinction. At this moment, the club's fans were organised and bought the stake, and since then this team of big stories has blossomed and is expected to return quickly to the top of the football.

Portsmouth Fans

These are just a few recent examples from hundreds of others for local fans, which continue to remain the stable foundation of respective clubs.

Thus, we can understand the difference between Kosovo and English football. It's not about the quality of Raheem Sterling, Harry Kane or Jadon Sancho. The point is specifically to be deeply virtual in our football versus the deeply real character in English football.

England is noted, not for national successes, but for the extraordinary and scattered football in every corner of its territory. Let's not forget, most clubs don't compete in the first or second category and don't enjoy great media coverage, and yet, even in that rudeness, their organisation is extraordinary something that should inspire us more than the quality of Raheem Sterling.

Kosovo football is in the hands of businessmen and politicians, not in the hands of the working class.