Soccer Fans

[R. Richard]

Manchester United overwhelmed Chelsea 3-1.

Fulham whelmed Manchester City 2-2.

Thus Manchester United goes top!

 

[oggbashan]

And my team, Arsenal, are not doing well...

(Except that they are financially sound.)

 

[Handley_Page]

It's not Soccer; it's FOOTBALL.

 

[oggbashan]

It's not Soccer; it's FOOTBALL.

It is Soccer, or Association Football, if you want to distinguish between it, Rugby, Australian Rules, any other version and the US variety.

It is football if you are in a football-only nation.

Whatever it is called, my team are making a mess of it.

 

[R. Richard]

It's not Soccer; it's FOOTBALL.

From Wiki:
The rules of association football were codified in the United Kingdom by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other versions of football played at the time, such as rugby football. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. An early usage found in an English 1892 periodical. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. Clive Toye noted that even English people called the game "soccer" interchangeably with "football" until the 1970s. "A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. ... Toye [said] 'They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer.'”

If you use football, in the USA, people assume that you mean 'American rules football,' (eg NFL.)

 

[Handley_Page]

From Wiki:
The rules of association football were codified in the United Kingdom by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other versions of football played at the time, such as rugby football. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. An early usage found in an English 1892 periodical. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. Clive Toye noted that even English people called the game "soccer" interchangeably with "football" until the 1970s. "A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. ... Toye [said] 'They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer.'”

If you use football, in the USA, people assume that you mean 'American rules football,' (eg NFL.)

Sorry; I had not realised that the NFL games involved use of the feet.
[snerk]

 

[R. Richard]

After a soccer style kicker had nailed a field goal to defeat his Detroit Lions, All-Pro defensive tackle Alex Karras uttered the following (disgusted) guote, "I keek a touchdown!"

 

[PennLady]

Sorry; I had not realised that the NFL games involved use of the feet.
[snerk]

Well, they don't run down the field on their hands... and there is the occasional kick.

 

[CarlusMagnus]

Well, they don't run down the field on their hands...

It might be an interesting game if they did...