Posted on 06/17/2014 11:43:48 AM PDT by raccoonradio
It's time America called football 'football' and not 'soccer'.
No.
Now shut up.
Or called sissyball.
What Piers and many here may not know, but soccer is a British term. It comes from the words
AsSOCiation Football from the nineteenth century. In the mid 19th Century sport clubs split between the Football Association and the Football Union. The Football Association became football or soccer, while the Football Union became rugby.
Love it!
Great point about the diving...maybe we should call it “dramaball.”
Hey Piers, ARSEnull Sucks!
We have a winner!!!
Tell that to Clint Dempsey.
Go light up a fag Piers.
“Soccer” comes from the term “AsSOCiation Football” which is the original British name of the sport.
The reason why we use “Soccer” in the US and Australia, is because we have “Football” here, in American and Aussie Rules football. There is no “English Rules” Football, so they can use “Football” without any issues. We can’t do that.
There ARE countries that call it “football” Miss Morgan. One of them is Great Britain.
So put on your “bonnet” and get back to England before we give you the “bum’s” rush and put the “boot” to your soft behind in “loo” of listening to another of your inane babblings.
Piers, only if we can call you a ‘FOOL’ First, our guns and now our football. You don’t play well with others do you?
Ah; thought maybe it was because they sock-ed the ball around with their feet, though yeah SOC from AsSOCiation
You’re quite wrong! NFL players couldn’t play soccer on par with even the European club teams.
Soccer is an extremely difficult sport to play because the your foot is the farthest thing from your brain, looking at your feet while you are running is also not practical. Therefore the majority of the touches in soccer are from muscle memory. To develop muscle memory, sports physiologists say it takes 10,000 hours to master a sport... just to touch the ball without having to use your brain.
Piers can’t go to a field of honor: he has none. . .
We could feel the decent soccer team from the kickers alone.
And I want Brits to call “Petrol” “Gasoline”.
I thought it was “futball”.
How xenophobic of Mr. Piers.
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