When our upper class forefathers decided they'd like to build an Empire, the sport they introduced was public school cricket, not that soccerball played by those working class Northern folk. When the time came for people to migrate to our green and pleasant land, all they knew was cricket. All their role models and sporting heroes were cricketers, not footballers. There's very few successful footballers of South Asian decent, so today's Asian kids also have no footballing role models. Maybe that's why their underrepresented in the stands?