| Re: Fanboy Thread #5 - Football or Soccer [message #410094 is a reply to message #407380] |
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| nikki6ixx wrote on Sun, 18 October 2009 13:11 |
I use Soccer because that's what it's called out here.
Thing I don't understand is why people, especially those in England get upset when the term 'soccer' is used, as if they're the foremost authority on what the sport should be called, and that anyone on the other side of the Atlantic is some sort of stupid prat.
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We invented it. It's called football. American football is called 'American football, not 'football'. Why Americans thought they could just call it football even though that's actually a totally different game, I have no idea.
It's a bit like calling a game with only Two countries involved the 'World Series', and it's victors 'World Champions'. No one would be arrogant enough to do that... Oh, wait... 
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