Tigger wrote:
mdma wrote:
Only in America. The real world calls it football. ;-)
Not really, and since soccer is shorthand for association football, which is the game you are actually playing, I think calling it that is a pretty good idea.
-Tig
But do you know why it's called assocation football Bill?
Association Football is the game most of the world calls Football, hence "The Football Association" or "The FA" being the governing body of football in England where it was invented. Anywhere else in the world has to call their governing body "COUNTRYNAME Football Association" (Or similar in local lingo), as there is only one "Football Association" and always will be.
Rugby Football is the public school ball game that spawned from football (before it was regulated as Association Football and given set rules), named after the public school it was invented at.
This then split off into two factions with different rules, one called Rugby League and one called Rugby Union. League was primarily played in the northern working class town's by professionals, and until very recently Union was played by middle class (slight generalisation I know) amateurs. In England at least.
Feck knows how Aussie Rules came about. Probably in a similar way to American Football I imagine.
