I played one season of Aussie Rules Football, before 7 years of soccer (poem 1); I think it's a good game, overall, and still watch bits of it via the Eurosport I get in England.
Back to Association Football/soccer - another problem of deregulation is that nowadays English players do not get as much big-match experience as they used to (because the top "English" clubs are full of other nationals), and this has been bad for our national team, which, in desperation, has recently been mangaged by Swedes and Italians, when all we really need to do is go back to our OWN good values and ways.