Author Topic: Incongruities in football matches  (Read 4617 times)

Michael Rolls

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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #30 on: Jul 07, 2020, 09:56:46 AM »
My mum for one - she won £10 once which delighted her no end - roughly the equivalent of nearly £200 in today's money. At the time her widow's pension was equal to around £54 a week today. As for Google and Americanisms - as I said above there are loads of British references - or do you think the Daily Mail, for one, is actually the Washington Post in disguise? I'm not trying to change the world - just pointing out a few easily demonstrable facts.
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #31 on: Jul 07, 2020, 10:45:47 AM »
'Soccer' comes from the Football Association, so it should be Ssocer, but I do not know who managed to draw that name out, or even why. It is useful to distinguish the round ball game from football.

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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #32 on: Jul 07, 2020, 10:57:05 AM »
so when some guys deviated the game so they could pick the ball up they called the new version [where you held the ball] football and the old version was re-named soccer...mmmm sounds logical, if your drunk
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #33 on: Jul 07, 2020, 11:49:46 AM »
One possible explanation!
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #34 on: Jul 07, 2020, 11:52:29 AM »
i wish my pension equalled the F.A.s drink bill
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #35 on: Jul 07, 2020, 11:53:42 AM »
Brian's probably does!
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #36 on: Jul 07, 2020, 03:20:16 PM »
If it's good enough for Encyclopaedia Britannica it's good enough for me  !

 University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain. By the 20th century, rugby football was more commonly called rugby, while association football had earned the right to be known as just plain football.

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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #37 on: Jul 07, 2020, 03:22:51 PM »
Alas, so easily swayed
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #38 on: Jul 07, 2020, 04:48:38 PM »
Oh folly.

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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #39 on: Jul 07, 2020, 05:04:13 PM »
There was a song which included the lines
'Oh, he's foutyba' crazy, he's foutba' mad
And the foutba' game has robbed him
O  the wee bit o sense he had
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #40 on: Jul 07, 2020, 05:12:40 PM »
Where I come from its fitba
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #41 on: Jul 07, 2020, 05:23:35 PM »
Mike too
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #42 on: Jul 07, 2020, 05:27:22 PM »
And the other ones that game played by men with a funny shaped ball
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #43 on: Jul 07, 2020, 05:29:46 PM »
I remember Saturday teatimes, first the radio, then the TV, my dad doing his pools.  No one spoke....😱   
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Re: Incongruities in football matches
« Reply #44 on: Jul 07, 2020, 05:40:31 PM »
'Fitba crazy' reminds me of a song ingrained in my memory-  Follow follow we will follow Rangers, everywhere anywhere we will follow on, Dundee Hamilton, Celtic or the Vatican if we go to Dublin we will follow on.  I don't think they were the official words mind  😄😄 
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