Football or Soccer

[Seagull on the Hoe]

Hi all,

I sit next to a Welsh rugby fan who continually refers to the beautiful game as "soccer" as opposed to the more popular 'football'.

It really gets on my nerves.

Does anyone out there have a definitive explanation that will shut him up once and for all....or do I have to accept that the game we all love is soccer.

Also, does anyone else get annoyed by Motty referring to 'injury time' at the end of each half as 'overtime'.

Cheers

 

[fatbadger]

It's not easy, this one, if only because Association Football came into being after Rugby Football. Does he use 'football' to describe Rugby Football, by any chance. That's what my Dad did (luckily, my mother left him for an Association Football fan from Brighton when I was very young). I just told him to say 'Rugby Football' and 'Association Football', to prevent any confusion - and corrected him whenever he says 'soccer' or 'football'. Before long, he got very bored of constantly having to use the longer names, and gave in - he now uses 'rugby' and 'football'

 

[REDLAND]

I'd move desks

 

[Safeway]

I'd move desks

Problem solved.

 

[saltash seagull]

I'd move desks

they should have you sorting out all the world's problems redland!
bush and blair could learn a lot from you

 

[sullyupthewing]

If people say Soccer to me I ignore them.

 

[graz126]

soccer is a horrible word.

the only thing that makes more sense than football is feetball. but if anybody said feetball you would just have to punch them.
but after all you kick a ball with your feet. so football, end of.

 

[CHAPPERS]

The game is called football but when teams beat other teams by a significant margin the term used is 'soccered'. For example, 'f***ing hell, the Swedes certainly SOCCERED those Bulgarina DINS'.


I answer to your question I think football is the correct word for the game but the act of a footballer is called 'soccering'. Especially when they are 'soccering' their wives.

Innit.

 

[The Large One]

You only kick with one foot at a time - hence football, unless you are Neil Ruddock.

Personally, I wish the egg-chasing game had been invented somewhere else other than Rugby School, so that we would have to call it 'University of East Anglia football', or 'Perhsore Agricultural College football', or 'Borstalball'. I think it scans quite nicely.

 

[Marshy]

Soccer is gay
Football isnt.

 

[Easy 10]

Soccer is a putrid enough word at the best of times, but don't you just HATE the way Americans say it:

"Oh gee, so like you guys play SACKOOOOOORRRRRR"

Its enough to induce a sudden, uncontrollable and brutal attack.

 

[Braders]

..... apart from the socceram Boston United highlights which are quality

 

[kalinski]

egg chasing came from association football, ergo we are football they are sheep shagging egg chasers

 

[sams dad]

I also hate it when people refer to football as"footie" or "footer".Makes me cringe

 

[Braders]

"footer " is embarassing ,but "footy" is alright

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If anybody round these parts asked you if you were 'going to soccer' on Saturday, they'd be rightly mocked within an inch of their worthless middle-class lives

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

"footer " is embarassing

Agree. The constant use of the word "footer" is one of the many things that pisses me off about Hunter Davies's column in the New Statesman.

I don't really like "footie" either but I quite like "fitba'" which is the Scots term...

 

[graz126]

being brought up in yorkshire i wonder if anybody else ever called the game togga whilst at school?

football
footy
footer
soccer
togga

fitba. never heard that one before.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

fitba. never heard that one before.

(ahem )

FITBA' CRAZY

CHORUS: He's fitba crazy, he's gone clean mad,
Fitba's gone and robbed him o' the wee bit sense he had.
It would tak' a washer woman his claithes tae rub and scrub,
Since oor Jock became a member o' that terrible fitba' club.

1. The first match that he went to play I went to see masel',
They had two hauf bricks for goalposts,
And a tin can for the ba',
The Band of Hope was present and all they did was stare,
An' when Jock broke his wooden leg they didnae seem to care.

(CHORUS)

2. Aye he's fitba' crazy he's gone clean daft,
Since he started playing fitba' his heid has gone right saft,
For he willnae drink a whisky and he's never in the pub,
Since oor Jock became a member o' that terrible fitba' club.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

For he willnae drink a whisky and he's never in the pub,
Since oor Jock became a member o' that terrible fitba' club.

Oor Jock was quite unlike most other Scottish footballers then!