Football, nothing else should be allowed. No calcio, futbol, fussbal, bola and certainly no effing soccer.
Oh just thought I voted football as played with the foot but what goes on the foot ... The Sock Sockball it is then Beth I'm off to Socky Scottish leagues could be Jocksockball but that will get shortened to Jockball Beth I'm off to Jocky Norwich city? Cockball ?
So why not call rugby "football" as well? They call theirs rugby so we call ours Soccer. Both are football however. Interesting you should say that because I have a Rangers book full of newspaper clippings going right back before the war and I was surprised to see that right up until the 70's, all the headlines and articles refer to the game as "Soccer"! And this is in the English press! So something happened between then and now. My theory is that the game started to catch on in America and when they started calling it "Sawcker" in their accent, it grated on people in England so they started referring to it as football.
Interesting read on wiki... Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union[1] and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes. Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.[2][3] The influence and power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread, including to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire,[4] though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.[5] In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. In the twentieth century, the various codes of football have become amongst the most popular team sports in the world.[6] There are confilicting explanations of the origin of the word "football". It is widely assumed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") references the action of the foot kicking a ball. There is a alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. There is no conclusive evidence for either explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football edit - anyone up for this? The early forms of football played in England, sometimes referred to as "mob football", would be played between neighbouring towns and villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams who would clash en masse,[24] struggling to move an item, such as inflated animal's bladder[25] to particular geographical points, such as their opponents' church, with play taking place in the open space between neighbouring parishes.[26] The game was played primarily during significant religious festivals, such as Shrovetide, Christmas, or Easter,[25] and Shrovetide games have survived into the modern era in a number of English towns (see below). This from the Soccer page.. The rules of association football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863 and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association".[6] Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football (colloquially footy or footer and occasionally soccer as used in older generations) in the United Kingdom, and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. Other countries, such as Australia and New Zealand may use either or both terms, and may also have local names for the sport.
At what point was that intresting.stopped reading at word 14 or so i think!!! Not sure what it was about...but vertainly not intresting IMHO !
Well said Jammers, yet we still only have 5 votes! Post your ballot son. This referendum ain't over yet!
The English actually invented the word soccer, BUT it's football....that's what's it's known as to most of the world. That's whys the main governing body is called FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) not FISA!
How come the English rugby's body is called the RFU then? Rugby Football Union. As are all the other football codes governing bodies. My point is, there are many codes of football and ours is Association aka Soccer. Reclaim the name!!!
Rugby is an abomination invented by posh English Public (as in private) Schools. No self repecting person would use the word "soccer", not even our idiot Prime Minister.
Yes your right Swords...the word soccer was actually invented because of the RFU....BUT in this country and most of the world people call it Football or their languages equivalent. There isn't an argument here as the name for something is what the common consensus of a community or country call it and that word is Football.
Quite true mate. However, the word soccer was actually prevalent in England right up to the late sixties (according to the research I've done which admittedly ain't much!). Besides, if the Rugby boys use their own name all the time and not "football", why can't we? Time to claim it back from the Yanks I reckon.
Why are Private schools called Public schools in England? I presume Public schools are called Private schools then? Are Public Toilets called Private toilets an' all?
It was meant as a joke pal!....nothing personal. Point was it was a very long post obviously copied and pasted from somewhere else..? People need to lighten up a bit i think.....? If you want to take exception then "knock yourself out" ! Not the first time this has happened either...!
