World Soccer thread III

[Imran Siddiqui]

Enjoy it now... one year from now you'll be crying your relegated heart out .

[Az]

How about some spanish footie discussion?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Go ahead, Az .

Osasuna got into the King's Cup Final for the first time today . Though in a boring match (0-0, Osasuna was 1 up so played uber-defensively). So it's Osasuna against Real Betis.

[Az]

Ahh, the spanish cup.... was there ever a double title holder in spain? ( not mentioning of euro cups)

top dogs always seem to be beaten by teams from bum**** or worse, Ceuta.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well it's the only thing going now as Barca seem to have sown up the title. They are 6 points ahead of Real Madrid after 35 games played by each.

Btw, which "galacticos" do you think Madrid will buy this offseason? Adriano? Cristiano Ronaldo?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Glazer is now at 71.8% according to Soccernet.

And more bad news for the Mancs:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=333258&cc=5901

Their new uber-prospect they transfered in, John Obi Mikel, is now saying he was bullied to sign for ManU.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hmm... I've been hearing rumors that Sir Alex may be leaving ManU because of the prospect of minimal transfer budget in the future. Though, of course, only rumor.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Even though it's likely I'm talking to myself...

Barca just won La Liga for the first time since '99.

[Az]

What an unfortunate draw for Real...

They almost won that one, you know, to keep the faith...

[Maquiladora]

Real are supposedly interested in Lampard so Mourinho came out "they cant afford him" I wonder the last time a manager of an English club couldve said that to Real Madrid and know its true.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Atahualpa

Do I have to spell out the history of the word again and PWN you again?!

I missed that one. Do you have a link?

[Hueij]

Eggball?? Don't we already have the term mellonball for that American travesty?

[Maquiladora]

Who knows, maybe mellonball will take off around the world soon, then we'll all have to use the term "soccer" for no logical reason too.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I missed that one. Do you have a link?

I did it in another thread on the matter. It might have been the last one of these. Basically the term football comes from England to describe any game played on foot rather than on horseback. Back in the mid 1800s, there were a ton of different football games, a kicking game, a dribbling game, and a pick it up and run with it game were ALL called football (with no real prefexes). That changed when the sports started to get organized. The English football association codified the rules to make football the kicking game. Well a few clubs weren't fond and had their own league of rugby football (named after the school the rules came from IIRC).

So you have association football and rugby football. Association Football (from the Football Association) becomes soccer (asSOCiation Football). Rugby football (colloquially called rugger at the time) was the precursor for American football and Australian rules football, both which have the same running with the ball. The sport of rugby, to this day, is officially 'rugby football'.

So basically people who say that soccer is an incorrect name for the sport are being incredibly ignorant about its history.

Some more reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football