prb said:

It is and always will be F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L

endymion said:

Hey if I am expected to go to games and endure them on telly then there better be something nice for me to look at.
Just sayin'!

prb said:

outside of the states it's football thanks, the nomenclature being evident if you watch it. as opposed to american football which composes of men dressed up as mini-tanks colliding with each other for seemingly no purpose. nowhere is rugby called football, unless you're referring to aussie rules which is a blend of rugby and gaelic football(which isn't really football either).

only real football uses a round ball.

TheVoid said:

Ask your German friend about Kilmarnock Football Club.
Thats my team and we've played Kaiserslaughtern a couple of times,
edit....I meant to add that the Bundesleague is crap now.
[Edited 3/19/10 8:48am]

MrsMdiver said:

my thoughts exactly.

endymion said:

Its football federation here..but try telling that to the kids....
Football ....

No, i play Soccer

prb said:

Call it football or soccer it doesn't matter to Australians.
They're crap at it anyway

Soccer is easy...clearly the easiest sport ever...
[Edited 3/19/10 8:58am]

muirdo said:

We were robbed at the last world cup, robbed i say

Bloody soccer players, more like actors

I'm so sorry I'm late!!


Usually I'm always there to talk about football.




And, yes, it's called football.

"Soccer" in the USA

"Football" in South-America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia if I'm not mistaken...

prb said:

I just checked the fifa world rankings and Australia are 20 places in front of Scotland
bloody hell.
I remember they had to change the rules for Australia's qualifiers because yous were beating teams like American Somoa 45 nil. lol
Now I believe you play a south american team in qualifiers?

elmer said:

There you go.

JoeTyler said:

Do you play yourself?

Dave1992 said:

Just personal opinion; anyway, I've played (in amateur level) soccer, hockey and basketball, (and rugby in semi-pro level) and clearly soccer was the easiest of them all, at least for me...easy rules, easy objectives, plenty of folks who help you when you're surrounded, not the frantic pace of a basketball game...

purplehippieonthe1 said:

What about Hreidarsson and Helguson - both very famous players!

muirdo said:

i have no idea who we play

JoeTyler said:

Superficially, football is easy, yes. But there are situations in which you need perfect knowledge of rules (talking about advantage-goals in a previous off-side situation and all that).

And what you said about pace.. well, it probably comes from the "amateur level" thing. In many leagues (in Europe, for instance, the youth leagues can be very, very tough already - physically and tactically) you can take two touches on a ball before somebody piles you or ruins your ankles, and during those one to two seconds you have to control the ball and pass it perfectly to a team-mate (whom you have to locate and whose route you have to anticipate) and then keep on running yourself again.


It also takes loads of pace, quick reacting, balance and out-thinking your opponent to dribble.

And playing an inch-perfect, curling pass over 30 yards while running can also be quite challenging.

Dave1992 said:

yeah....Portsmouth and Watford are world class teams.

muirdo said:

Not anymore, but those two used to be world class players. Helguson has a nice touch with both feet and used to be very powerful. But with age he lost pace, of course...


And Hreidarsson had a good spell with Ipswich back then.

Dave1992 said:

I saw Hreidarsson play for Iceland against Scotland last year he had a good game.
Solid defender.

Dave1992 said:

What you said about the pace in the pro level is true. But then again, any sport is HARD in pro level, but I still think pro-soccer/football is one of the easiest games compared to other sports in pro level...but perhaps that's just me. Or maybe what happens is that only a few teams (right now, Barcelona, Man Utd, Arsenal and perhaps Inter) manage to truly master the art of football, and that's why any other "lesser" team gets thrashed... look at the recent Arsenal 5 - Oporto 0, or the Barcelona 4 -Stuttgart 0...

Anyway, football is one of the most dangerous sports in the injury department ; 6 months with your ankle broken if you're not lucky

Dave1992 said:

Yay for Hreidarsson!

JoeTyler said:

It's true that few teams are really successful nowaday, compared to earlier days, when sometimes any team could play in Europe, but that is mainly due to rich teams getting richer and poor teams getting poorer and owners from Asia, the middle east and the U.S. fucking up traditional clubs by "gambling".

Btw, it's great you say Man Utd and not "ManU". Was it really your intent not to use "ManU"; do you know about that story?


And, yep, that happened quite a few times to me and eventually ended my football career. I've torn ligaments in both ankles many times, had to be operated on, broke my ankle, tore ligaments in my knees and my back basically is also fucked up because of football. It still makes me very sad, because I loved playing football and I even started a couple of games for the U16 national team and was told that I could go all the way up, before I was told I had to stop playing

florescent said:

Yay for the Canaries!

Dave1992 said:

Go Delia !!!


Oh and for the record Football is the biggest sport in the world!

MrsMdiver said:

Can I just apologise now for Wayne "Shrek" Rooney

He is ferkin great at footy though

endymion said:

fixed it for ya

endymion said:

Roo is a master and what he's doing this season is absolutely out of this world. Such calmness, power and accuracy in front of goal. Amazing. And he even got his heading right! 8 out of his last 10 goals headed, and that's after five seasons with not more than three headed goals altogether