Wotcha BHOYS! QPR fan in peace. I've got a poll running on our Board as to whether our sport should be called Football or Soccer. As we know, there are many different types of football including GAA and Rugger so I'm trying to reclaim the "Soccer" name for our game. So far, the only votes I've got for Soccer are from Irish and Welsh lads. I reckon if I could mobilise the Scottish vote and form a sort of "Celtic Alliance" with Scotland, Ireland and Wales, we could bring the vote back toward the 50/50 mark. We're tallying poorly at the moment with the vote standing at 83% - 17%. But a surge from this Board could push us back into contention. Gentlemen, I would appreciate your help in this matter. If you wish to vote, just click on the Link below and cast your ballot. Cheers BHOYS! Erin agus Alba go brea!! http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/184311-Football-or-Soccer
That's a common misperception mate. Here's the info: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/#QKQU09aOGDZVu5yS.99
For Fu*k's sake, I thought I could count on you boys! What about Celtic solidarity? (Celtic pronounced Keltic if you know what I mean!)
I am not bothered. Soccer when I'm talking to GAA folk and football when talking to Association football types and Fitbaw when talking to the Scotch.
No but you clearly have if you are asking such a ridiculous question and expecting a serious response AND your fellow QPR fans told me. Then you confirmed my suspicion with: The only reason you would think that "the Jocks" would agree with you is because you are either: A: Deranged B: Some wanabee WUM Then we have this: Why on earth would we want to claim it back from the Yanks? Should we steal "Sidewalk" and "Trashcan" from them while we are at it, or any of their Godawful bastard language? Give it up, people care about as much as you do, which is to say not at all.
I wouldn't listen to some of them. They just have it in for me that's all. Besides, "Soccer" is now polling at just under 20% which, considering its mostly English people on the QPR Board, means that there's a significant minority who back the claim. Well considering it was entirely Welsh and Irish voting for "Soccer" and entirely English voting for "Football", I figured that what with the Celtic link an' all, you lads would come down heavily on our side and give us a "shot in the arm" as it were. It would appear that I was badly mistaken in that assumption. Its not without a degree of pain either, I must confess. I had counted on our Celtic cousins to come to our aid but instead you allied yourselves with the English. I know it sounds a bit dramatic but I can't help but feel we've been stabbed in the back. No, we don't wish to steal any American words. Rather we want to take back a decidedly British word and reintroduce it to the English language. The fact that we're polling nigh on 20% in this vote means that that process has already begun in earnest - whether people like it or not.
I think soccer is fairly deserving of it's claim to be 'football' since it's the only game mentioned here in which you are almost completely restricted to using your feet.
Yeah...soccer....great idea! We've already got the Scottish Soccer Association, there's the SA in England, UESA, FISA and most other federations are really grabbing your great idea, mate. Sock it to 'em tiger
My suspicions were not without foundation, WUM or idiot, you decide. Maybe I should start a poll on the QPR board.
Whatever you call it, they are not too good at it down in Queen's Park Rangers way. There again no Rangers are too successful just now. I prefer soccer as it seems to be the original name the sport was called. The English in their legionary colonial took the collective name for that type football and so in their minds making soccer superior to all Similar? team sports. This led to the gross arrogance FA and Premier League in stead of English F.A. and EPL. A couple of years ago I was of course laughed at by always referring to the PL as EPL. I am pleased that the term EPL is now used more widely as of course is right/ Cricket Rugby and other sports should put English at the start of their title instead of Rugby Union etc.
