Football is not soccer. And American Football is not football.
I wince every time I hear the word "soccer." It makes my beloved sport football sound so alien, so uncouth, almost like someone just swore at me. Socca!.Socker!.Soccer!…
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26 - The Truth
@Always Soccer
It's people like you giving americans a bad name... The name that americans are f**king racist biggots...
1- Your statements on mexicans and brazillians has absolutely NOTHING to do with the debate here.
2- Don't kid yourself... Football is and shall always be the most popular sport in the world if it keeps going this way.
3- The original and international version was called football first!.
4- It's FOOTBALL because 90% of those 90 minutes or more uses the 'foot'... Unlike the american version where you carry the ball most of the time and only one player even has the ability to kick the ball during play!.
And to be completely honest the american version is really just rugby when you strip it down but with less kicking.
27 - I will call it what I fucking want it
Its originally a British word that the Americans, quite reasonably, adopted. Now being Canadian I have "issues" with the Americans but I'm with them here. Those immature Brits who get off on calling us out for soccer are retarded because it was a BRITISH word to start with you fucking idiots! As for American football, I always say gridiron to differentiate it, and just "football" in North America b/c seriously everyone there says it that way. Its not like a fucking brit is gonna put a gun to my head about this, so FUCK OFF you fucking better-than-thou tosser! (there, I said it, soccer is a BRITISH word, DONE)
28 - Christopher Rose
It's true that soccer is also a British English word but only complete bell ends and David Beckham (same thing) would ever call football soccer!
29 - Dr Dreadful
I possess a t-shirt with the word "football" and a picture of a soccer ball printed on it, which I wear out of the house every so often as a wind-up.
Here in the US it makes a satirical statement. Were I to wear it in my native UK, the only message it would convey is "I like football".