Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Oh. I thought it was about my job. I work with the youthenasia.
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Both the guy you quoted and Swansman are that most modern of things - the foreign, internet football hipster that's never wrong. So both regard it as cheating when Brighton fans go to places like pubs and hear stuff from people in the know. How very dare they? They should be at home watching youTube videos of the Italian third division like normal people.
pigmanovich
Good Old Sausage by the Sea
Excellent name for a band
thedonkeycentrehalf
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Which part of Asia do you work with the youth in?
jackalbion
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Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
Unfortunately it’s a disease that infests every aspect of the internet now. It’s why people are experts in Middle Eastern conflict one week (because they skimmed the Wikipedia article on Palestine) and body language experts (because they watched a true crime documentary on Netflix) the next.
Why be relatively knowledgeable about topics you actually know about when you can be an expert on every subject ever? All it requires is paddling pool depth knowledge on a subject and the arrogance to think you can’t be wrong.
That’s why outside of football I stick to my areas of expertise on here. If it’s not about a UK Hip-Hop artist only 4 people care about, cocaine dealers between Worthing and Brighton or local pubs then I keep my nose out because I don’t have a clue. And that’s okay.
el punal
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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This feels like a very simple question but also that I'm about to be whooshed...
Japan...
And he's been incognito in hospital, using the name Dan Druff.
When did soccer/football become such a shibboleth in this country? I'm sure when I was a small child in the 90s it wasn't seen as that weird to call it soccer, and I can't imagine things like Soccer Saturday would be called that if it had been considered such a big deal, notwithstanding the obvious appeal of the alliteration.
I bought Soccer Star magazine weekly in about 1963
AZ Gull
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The word soccer has been regularly and consistently used in the UK for literally decades. Some people just find it a handy stick to beat the US with (because EVRYTHING about the US is VERY BAD, obviously).
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See, now you get it!
I suspect it's the pronunciation.
Succour.
That eyeball-insult of a game between Palarse and Forest the other night was as far from succour as a 90 minute spectation can possibly be.
I had literally lost 15% of my soul by the time the final whistle went. It's now a horcrux in Will Hughes' kit bag.
It was pretty poor...
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As I’m sure most people know, soccer was the shortened term for asSOCiation football just as rugger was short for RUGby football. It was widely used in England up to the 80s or so when it suddenly became an alien word. Remember Star Soccer on TV in the 60s/70s? Became the Big Match. It’s us who have changed, not the Americans.
Can’t believe I’m the first to like this post after 5 hours!
thedonkeycentrehalf
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I’ll be honest, I may have whooshed myself as I thought it was just a bad NSC pun and hadn’t spotted your location.