

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

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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.
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.
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
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!!
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 usestryin to be all clever and finding flaws in our arguments psh
u and ur american rugby and exaggerated rounders
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 usestryin 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!
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