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Anyone watchin it. Just watched the holland italy game has to be the best out of them all but dam italy got pwnt >_<. Hopefully romania beat holland again and the old farts (french) can beat holland too since i really dont like em probably wont happen though

Atleast england aint in it to embarass themselves though but capello should be able to do atleast somethin with em

I'm not much into soccer, but some of our british coworkers who are here in the states for a week were watching it today.

Negs wrote:I'm not much into soccer, but some of our british coworkers who are here in the states for a week were watching it today.

*cough* Football not soccer how did u even get the word soccer anyway

Soccer, if I remember rightly, was a colloquial abbreviation of the word Association, the full title of the game, being "association football" becoming "soccer football", or soccer for short.

Ceryn wrote:Soccer, if I remember rightly, was a colloquial abbreviation of the word Association, the full title of the game, being "association football" becoming "soccer football", or soccer for short.

oO who the hell called it Association football never been called tht in the uk

The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown

Etymology Online rocks:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=soccer

Ees troo!

Ceryn wrote:The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown

Ohh what a wonderful tidbit of info .. we actually had a debate today about the whole soccer / football thing ... now I can throw it back in their faces and say "told ya so, it was the british who came up with it"

WOOT!!

Negs wrote:

Ceryn wrote:The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown

Ohh what a wonderful tidbit of info .. we actually had a debate today about the whole soccer / football thing ... now I can throw it back in their faces and say "told ya so, it was the british who came up with it"

WOOT!!

Just use the same name everyone else uses tryin to be all clever and finding flaws in our arguments psh

u and ur american rugby and exaggerated rounders

Rehab wrote:

Negs wrote:

Ceryn wrote:The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown

Ohh what a wonderful tidbit of info .. we actually had a debate today about the whole soccer / football thing ... now I can throw it back in their faces and say "told ya so, it was the british who came up with it"

WOOT!!

Just use the same name everyone else uses tryin to be all clever and finding flaws in our arguments psh

u and ur american rugby and exaggerated rounders

At least we don't try to cheat at scrabble by putting unnecessary U's in words!

Nicodar wrote:

Rehab wrote:

Negs wrote:

Ceryn wrote:The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown

Ohh what a wonderful tidbit of info .. we actually had a debate today about the whole soccer / football thing ... now I can throw it back in their faces and say "told ya so, it was the british who came up with it"

WOOT!!

Just use the same name everyone else uses tryin to be all clever and finding flaws in our arguments psh

u and ur american rugby and exaggerated rounders

At least we don't try to cheat at scrabble by putting unnecessary U's in words!

oO the words were in the dictionary long before u changed them