please log in to view this image **** knows what this is all about - a Birmingham football fan with a cut throat razor
Now I can never understand why American Football is called that, Football. It has less kicking than Rugby, either code. I sometimes refer to it as Throwball or Carryball, but Football?
at that time there wouldn't have been much of an "all". you've only to look at what happens in amateur leagues several rungs down the "football pyramid" where the existence of most clubs is precarious, and where clubs disappear or are formed in a blink. the word soccer appears around 1880. look through the teams that played in the 1880-81 FA Cup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880–81_FA_Cup teams from colleges, the forces, etc. even two teams from brigg. only 7 of these teams went on to play in the football league, which began 7 years later. sheffield wednesday did not include sheffield in their name until about 48 years later.
Wot? There's an American drawl? There are many accents (and drawls) across our land, and a Yankee sounds as foreign in Texas as does a Scouser. The phonetics you describe indicate a New Yorker. A Bostonian would say sock-ah. I won't even make an attempt at how it might sound coming from a Georgian, a Minnesotan, or a Cajun.
We are indeed two countries divided by a common language (and forms of pronunciation). I guess just as Americans say they love (or hate) an English accent we say the same about American accents even though it's obvious that subtle and non - subtle dialects exist across any common language. BTW can you have a go at local pronunciation of soccer? It'd be fun. I'd love to know how soccer would sound coming from a Georgian, a Minnesotan, or a Cajun. We could globalise it. South Africa? - I'm going 'shikk-ah'
Images on the internet definitely suggest a round ball. please log in to view this image "In 1508, poet Alexander Barclay gives us an early description of the ball: they get the bladder and blowe it great and thin, with many beans or peasons put within" It was also clearly a kicking game, rugby had its own names. https://football-origins.com/15-middle-age-relics-medieval-football-in-great-britain/
