The term in English is soccer 'Football' is a regional term used in the UK and certain demographics in inner Sydney, Melbourne and Dublin who did a working holiday in london Otherwise the most common of the 6 codes of football is just called football in any region
>>155535528>bongs can't speal their own language properly To the surprise of absolutely no one.
association football is league footballinternational football isn't association football
>>155535580Associate your mother with my balls
Don't care; still calling it divegrass.
>>155535580the league is AFL but if people are playing it at a club level I'd still call it AFLActually I was baiting with the first line nothing wrong with you lads calling it football >>155535699BOILED THAT FREAK
>>155535559>spealGood morning sar!
>>155535528If Ireland has an arbitrary split, then the map should also have "soccer" over parts of northern England.
>>155535826fuck the norf is based heartland of county cricketrugby leaguecall it soccer
>>155535699Gottem
>>155535528>the vernacular of JFsWho gives a fuck
>>155535528England created the sport, we'll decide what it is called newfagsNone-whites, memeflags, VPN fags do not (you) me
>>155535826literally no one calls it soccer in the north
>>155535528>oi, the fuckin' yanks made up this word!is this really how it went down
>>155535910But the image literally says that's what you decided
>>155535528Japan calls it soccer too
>>155535901>>155535910The only reason you call it football exclusively is because of letting the ESL nations degenerate you in the 80s and 90s
>>155535528For me, it's ball-coise. The best fast food sandwich.
>>155535978There's a lot of this in English, where Americans use the form of an English word that was first used by the English before changing it. Aluminum is an example of this
>>155536061I mean that Americans still use the original form
>>155535936Find someone in the north whose first sport is rugby league and he'll probably use "soccer".
i dont care what people call it
>>155535528>Papua New Guineans call it soccer so we should too Fascinating cope
>>155536098We're just using the original word, just like tire and aluminum
>>155536144>the original wordthe etymology of soccer stems from association footballfootball associations started in the 1800'sthere were no football associations when football was invented in the middle ages so they obviously didn't call it soccer
>>155536144>Original wordThis has to be bait kek
>>155536192They all had their own versions of the game of Village Football and while it was a community event, they all had their own, non-codified rules. Ultimately you see the base rules in all forms of football>Guy gets tackled, put ball at that spot.>Guy is in front of a line of play is ruled offsides>Goal posts>Penalty by defense within about 15 yards of end line results in what is essentially a free pointEven things like 11 players to a side while not universal are rules that clearly developed and were passed around the greater Anglo world before codification. People should make less a deal of it, it's soccer because America had a football code that developed over centuries.
>>155535971Everytime
>>155535971yesthe outrage over it is very silly
>>155535528We should start adopting "soccer" in all languages. For example in Finnish it could be adaptes as "sokeri". It also makes sense because "sokeri" means sugar and soccer is the sweet sport.
