I agree with
@Drico overall point, but yeah, Germany being the land of Karl Marx is a stretch. Marx did also write The German Ideology, but that tends towards the society's elevation of economically dominant classes.
That said, I'd long for a german model game in thus country.
I'm not sure what the issue is here. Marx and Engels were German philosophers. That much of their work was written in London is here nor there. Or is this some weird continuation of the bizarre spectacle at the London Olympics where a fuss was made of the NHS as if Otto von Bismarck - that well known socialist - had not previously invented the world's first modern welfare state.
Anyway, all jokes aside, the point I am really getting at is that England is very much a more economically right-wing society than Germany, which is based primarily on a social model despite the best efforts of the current German finance minister. Even the way Jeremy Corbyn was painted in the UK press shows this difference. He was pilloried as some form of loony left enemy of the state, when in fact some of his policy positions took him to the right of popular social democrat Angela Merkel. In this context, that English people would be conditioned to see their national sport commercialised beyond recognition is no surprise. That the Germans, by comparison, wouldn't stand for it is similarly unsurprising.
Let's face it, that Sky TV was the big commercial winner in the UK is apt, given who founded that company. This is the dominant national culture.
