Please, if you're coming here to answer the question, make sure your answer is indeed comprehensive, in-depth and informed, such as an historian might give. Your guesses, opinions and assumptions aren't acceptable and will be deleted. Which is what happened to every single comment in this thread before this one.

Thank you.

Since the entire thread has been nuked heres some links to some similar questions that have been asked before:

• Why is football not a major sport in many countries of the former British Empire?
• Why did cricket become popular in some former British colonies (India, Pakistan, West Indies, Australia etc) but not others (Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, USA, etc)?
• How did cricket get so popular in India
• Why is soccer the sport of the world instead of, say, cricket, or baseball?
• Why isn't Soccer the most popular sport in the former 'white' dominions of the British Empire?
• Why did cricket not catch on in Canada like it did in the rest of the former British Colonies?
• Why didn't Australia, or many other commonwealth countries, embrace soccer as their primary football code?
• Nearly all of the world's most popular sports seem to have been invented in English-speaking countries. Why?
• Can anybody explain when and how rugby, football, soccer, etc. developed?

Hope these help