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Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 11:22 am**

Why is Tottenham Hotspur not called Tottenham Hotspurs?

Why do some people insist that Kolarov's crosses are hammered in without precision?

Why do we seemingly only face bogey teams in cup finals (of recent time anyway)?

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 11:24 am**

How does Ted know everything

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 11:56 am**

1. Because they are singular

2. Because a lot of them are

3. Luck of the draw

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 12:04 pm**

But shouldn't there be one spur for each player or something like that? Don't get it.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 12:21 pm**

why some people refer to uefa as eufa

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 1:44 pm**

Nigels Tackle wrote:why some people refer to uefa as eufa

I often do, due to a total lack of interest in them.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 1:44 pm**

Why does the BBC's website keep using the acronym of FIFA as though it's a word: Fifa.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 1:55 pm**

What does offside mean

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 2:21 pm**

Nigels Tackle wrote:why some people refer to uefa as eufa

I'm always doing that, and I know it's wrong. I reckon it's some subliminal EU, Europe thing.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 2:48 pm**

Cocacolajojo wrote:Why is Tottenham Hotspur not called Tottenham Hotspurs?

There's only one hotspur on the club crest. Not a whole bunch of them.
And related, Sheffield are not called Wednesdays, we are not called cities, and Stalybridge are not called celtics.

When talking about the team or the club, it is, however, natural to use plural, since you are referring to the members of the club, the fans, or the players on the team. Thus colloquially the Spurs, the blues etc sound better to most.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 3:12 pm**

Im_Spartacus wrote:How does Ted know everything

2 minutes looking something up before posting ?

I don't understand the offside rule though.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 4:26 pm**

iwasthere2012 wrote:
Nigels Tackle wrote:why some people refer to uefa as eufa

I'm always doing that, and I know it's wrong. I reckon it's some subliminal EU, Europe thing.

I honestly thought it might have been an in-joke that I'd missed out on, or some weird autocorrect anomaly.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 4:28 pm**

There's only one hotspur on the club crest. Not a whole bunch of them.
And related, Sheffield are not called Wednesdays, we are not called cities, and Stalybridge are not called celtics.

When talking about the team or the club, it is, however, natural to use plural, since you are referring to the members of the club, the fans, or the players on the team. Thus colloquially the Spurs, the blues etc sound better to most.

Yeah, but! You can fit people in a City or a Villa, they can unite, the can be part of something celtic, they can meet up on a wednesday. But they can't all fit into an animal. At least not such a small animal. It just doesn't make any sense.Sounds like someone's last name, not a club name. Martin Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspurs.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 5:03 pm**

Cocacolajojo wrote:
There's only one hotspur on the club crest. Not a whole bunch of them.
And related, Sheffield are not called Wednesdays, we are not called cities, and Stalybridge are not called celtics.

When talking about the team or the club, it is, however, natural to use plural, since you are referring to the members of the club, the fans, or the players on the team. Thus colloquially the Spurs, the blues etc sound better to most.

Yeah, but! You can fit people in a City or a Villa, they can unite, the can be part of something celtic, they can meet up on a wednesday. But they can't all fit into an animal. At least not such a small animal. It just doesn't make any sense.Sounds like someone's last name, not a club name. Martin Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspurs.

There's a theory that the name is taken from Sir Henry Percy, who had the (possibly posthumous) nickname 'Hotspur': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Percy_%28Hotspur%29

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 5:09 pm**

mr_nool wrote:
Cocacolajojo wrote:Why is Tottenham Hotspur not called Tottenham Hotspurs?

There's only one hotspur on the club crest. Not a whole bunch of them.
And related, Sheffield are not called Wednesdays, we are not called cities, and Stalybridge are not called celtics.

When talking about the team or the club, it is, however, natural to use plural, since you are referring to the members of the club, the fans, or the players on the team. Thus colloquially the Spurs, the blues etc sound better to most.

But the scum are called rags (plural) or sometimes cunts (plural).

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 5:33 pm**

There's a theory that the name is taken from Sir Henry Percy, who had the (possibly posthumous) nickname 'Hotspur': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perc ... Hotspur%29

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 5:44 pm**

Thanks BiB

Also: Why does every goal end up with the goal scorer running towards the corner flag with his team mates trying to catch him?

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 6:10 pm**

Cocacolajojo wrote:Thanks BiB

Also: Why does every goal end up with the goal scorer running towards the corner flag with his team mates trying to catch him?

Because there where the closest cameras are.
+ away fans are often tucked away in the corner.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 7:00 pm**

How does Robbie Savage make a living out of it?

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2015 9:08 pm**

Why does the premier league only use one match ball when every other league seems to have a few to help stop time wasting?

Why don't we pay refs pro salaries at a decent rate and recruit better ones?

Why is a player who feigned injury allowed right back on the pitch?

Why do thick twats over here say "he's not quick enough to be offside" and do they say it back there?

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