We're not too bad at snooker... hmm, is it me or do we only seem to be reasonable at pub games? Possibly that's the root of the problem, people spend more time in pubs than taking part in 'proper' sport...
Joking aside, sport has been consistently undermined in schools for years unless you happen to be fortunate to go to a school with a heck of a lot of private money behind it so it can afford to maintain its sporting facilities. The same can be said for music and art in schools, too. All are consistently underfunded in terms of equipment and facilities, and have been pushed further and further down the curriculum in favour of extra English and Maths, which is a highly questionable piece of educational logic.
Then of course there's the PC brigade who feel that competitive sport is a bad thing because there have to be losers and it may encourage some people to feel inferior. Now, of course, we have a generation who don't know how to deal with life's knockbacks because they haven't been allowed to get any practice...