I'm not at all sure that 'glueman's' group have won. I suppose that technically football chants might be thought of as folk songs - but something inside me wants to scream, "so what!!" Has the tradition come to this? Football chants?

On the other hand SO'P keeps insisting that 'all-music-is-folk-music' - which doesn't get us any further forward.

My view is that the folk process that, in England, and other parts of these islands, produced the great ballads and the lyrical songs is more or less dead - and replaced with commercial pop music which is very largely, passively consumed by the majority of the population.
Nevertheless, on the peripheries of our culture there are things that, if you stand on tiptoe, with a following wind, and squint hard, you might just be able to persuade yourself (especially if you're very desperate to do so)that they might possibly be similar to what folk songs used to be once upon a time.