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Poll Question: what is your favourite of these four sports,
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fotball for the word, i also like kurvball, but it is rarely shown on Norse television, but i love playing some street basket :), 
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No.   I also believe it is a shartedged word.
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Ivan

Here is an example of a British football programme



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is the word soccer a cockney slang word or just a slang word??

edit: i read the last thing you wrote, oxbridge words, accademics making slang words or shartedged words for long complicated words


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The word Soccer is indeed an old English invention, along with Rugger (Rugby), Footer (Football), Brekkers (Breakfast), Shampers (Champagne), Twickers (Twickenham), Beckers (David Beckham)... and with all those words, it is associated with snooty public school boys and Oxbridge hooray-henrys, hence not much liked by "ordinary" Englishmen.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Of course my favorite sport to watch and play is Football (I can't stand that silly name soccer).



Soccer is a totally legitimate word for the game of Association Football.

Nobody in the whole world except in USA (So they not collision with their Football) or Canada calls it soccer OFFICIALLY....Puerto Rico has the Football Federation, but they call their tournament Soccer league, already FIFA has warned them.

The name is FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, soccer is nothing, just an invention of USA to avoid collision with their Football

The term Football is used in 

1.- Latin America
2.- Europe (Except Italy where it's called Calcio)
3.- Asia
4.- Africa (Except Southt Africa that uses soccer  but not officially and Football  Association officially)
5.- Caribbean countries
6.- Oceania : Australia uses Soccer but not officially, their league is called FOOTBALL LEAGUE New Zealad used Soccer but considered the name inappropriate an started to call it Football in 2006 and called Rugby as Footy

Really the only two countries that use Soccer officially are USA and Canada.

I still consider it invalid

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

What I read is that the word soccer comes from 19th century England, so that should settle it.

[Well... It was a wise man on an internet forum saying this, it must be right. He seemed very knowledgeable on the issue.]

It was used casually to differentiate it from the Rugby and Gaelic Football league, but officially and uinofficially it's called Football.

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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
Wembley: http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=2&t=1085 
 
We played "kerb" as "wall ball", but essentially the same game.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
I think these games travelled because families did, a new kid at school would introduce a variant on something already played.
 
LOL looking through teh Gastly Games website is bring back memories ... kiss-chase and knicker-chase ("Infants school "game" where the participants chase the girls and try to pull down their skirts so you could see their knickers. But nobody ever knew WHY") must have lost their appeal at an all boys school, fortunately I was co-ed all my school life Wink
 

That Wembley game (Which we called FA cup) is not the game he is referring to but the game I described. I remember "Catch and kiss" at school. Mixed sex also.
 
The game I was describing is called 'Green Arses' on the Ghastly Games site.  But this rings no bells with me.  Sounds more Public School name to me.  Kiss Chase was occasionally played at my Primary School but British Bulldog was more popular even mixed sex BB.
 
 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
Wembley: http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=2&t=1085 
 
We played "kerb" as "wall ball", but essentially the same game.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
I think these games travelled because families did, a new kid at school would introduce a variant on something already played.
 
LOL looking through teh Gastly Games website is bring back memories ... kiss-chase and knicker-chase ("Infants school "game" where the participants chase the girls and try to pull down their skirts so you could see their knickers. But nobody ever knew WHY") must have lost their appeal at an all boys school, fortunately I was co-ed all my school life Wink
 

That Wembley game (Which we called FA cup) is not the game he is referring to but the game I described. I remember "Catch and kiss" at school. Mixed sex also.
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
Wembley: http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=2&t=1085 
 
We played "kerb" as "wall ball", but essentially the same game.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
I think these games travelled because families did, a new kid at school would introduce a variant on something already played.
 
LOL looking through teh Gastly Games website is bring back memories ... kiss-chase and knicker-chase ("Infants school "game" where the participants chase the girls and try to pull down their skirts so you could see their knickers. But nobody ever knew WHY") must have lost their appeal at an all boys school, fortunately I was co-ed all my school life Wink
 
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Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
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That's the one^  No I don't remember what it was called!  Oh well
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^Sounds a bit like knock out or something like that. Well  the one I'm thinking of is you all sit in a circle and one person kicks the  ball at you. One can only defend with the feet. Anything else hit and you join the kicker slowly surrounding the lone survivor!!!!

We might have called it FA actually. can't remember.


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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Too true - my knees took years to recover - though the worse for me was playing in a sports hall and getting cannoned into the wall.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Murderball was worse!Ouch
 
I think they were as "bad" as each other - and regardless of how the games were supposed to be played they usually end up the same - a mass "bundle" - most of the time it was an excuse for condoned thuggery and exacting petty revenge - and I loved it. Approve

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I had forgotten getting rammed into the wall!  Ah memories!Ouch
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
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Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Too true - my knees took years to recover - though the worse for me was playing in a sports hall and getting cannoned into the wall.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Murderball was worse!Ouch
 
I think they were as "bad" as each other - and regardless of how the games were supposed to be played they usually end up the same - a mass "bundle" - most of the time it was an excuse for condoned thuggery and exacting petty revenge - and I loved it. Approve

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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Too true - my knees took years to recover - though the worse for me was playing in a sports hall and getting cannoned into the wall.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Murderball was worse!Ouch
 
I think they were as "bad" as each other - and regardless of how the games were supposed to be played they usually end up the same - a mass "bundle" - most of the time it was an excuse for condoned thuggery and exacting petty revenge - and I loved it. Approve
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We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
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