lovecity8utd wrote:Rumour it's a 3pm kick off on a Saturday. Must be bullshit.
gotta make way for the 7th place finalists TV coverage.
lovecity8utd wrote:Rumour it's a 3pm kick off on a Saturday. Must be bullshit.
ruralblue wrote:Can I just ask?
It says Stoke City (home )
Who's home is this being played in? Sauls house causes far too much confusion and all is no unclear!
Saul Goodman wrote:Calling it soccer as an insult to North America isnt an insult against this country. If you intended it as an insult then youre insulting England as theyre the ones that invented the word soccer and first used it to describe the sport.
Way back both rugby and football were called football. Then, in order to make things easier, they called them rugby football and association football. Assosciation football was later shortened to soccer while rugby football was shortened to rugger. The US then picked up on that as thats what you guys were calling the sport.
Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
Ted Hughes wrote:Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
Ah, so in the 19th century, they were learning to copy stuff from medieval England.
That seems a reasonable explanation.
clippo22 wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
Ah, so in the 19th century, they were learning to copy stuff from medieval England.
That seems a reasonable explanation.
When Tony Pulis was in charge many believed that Stoke played 'medieval' football involving many long balls.
That's what we're talking about here right?
sheblue wrote:What the fook is soccerball? FFS.
Ted Hughes wrote:Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
Ah, so in the 19th century, they were learning to copy stuff from medieval England.
That seems a reasonable explanation.
Saul Goodman wrote:Calling it soccer as an insult to North America isnt an insult against this country. If you intended it as an insult then youre insulting England as theyre the ones that invented the word soccer and first used it to describe the sport.
Way back both rugby and football were called football. Then, in order to make things easier, they called them rugby football and association football. Assosciation football was later shortened to soccer while rugby football was shortened to rugger. The US then picked up on that as thats what you guys were calling the sport.
Bridge'srightfoot wrote:sheblue wrote:What the fook is soccerball? FFS.
A version of football where you can only pass sideways and backwards. Tom Cleverly and Javi Garcia are the two best in the world.
Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
Bianchi on Ice wrote:Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
In a nut shell Nige you've done a piss poor job of insulting the yanks. Try again ;)
Slim wrote:Bianchi on Ice wrote:Saul Goodman wrote:Well you can partially thank the motherland for that one too.
"Foot ball" used to mean "games played on foot" in medieval England.
Then, in the early days of American football the forward pass wasnt legal so teams kicked/punted more than they do now. So feet were used alot more back then. Plus, when "american football" was in its infancy there weren't standardized rules and every college played it dfferently. Eventually they mimicked Australian rugby which is why the two are sorta similar now
In a nut shell
In a nut shell Nige you've done a piss poor job of insulting the yanks. Try again ;)
Except nothing he is saying it actually true.
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