is soccer boring?

[CIA_Andie]

Are you kidding me? Football/Soccer is NOT boring!!!

English Premier League is a part of my life since I was 12 years old! :thumbleft:

[johnno]

Only using 'gridiron' as I presumed that was you were referring to as 'football'.

So what sport do you mean by the term 'football' then?

actually, you were the first one in this forum to refer to soccer as football. i have always referred to soccer as soccer in this forum.

football is whatever you want it to be depending on what country you are in. i'm australian so football is league, union or aussie rules. soccer is soccer. saves confusion 8)

in kiwi land, football would be rugby union cos that is their national game.

americans (usa ones) would call gridiron football, same as kiwis (national game)

south americans would call soccer football.

i guess the other heathens in the world would think the same as you and call soccer football.

if you said to an aussie that you were going to watch a game of football, he/she would be wondering if you are going to watch league, union or aussie rules, not a game of soccer. i think this trying to change the terminology to "football" would be driven by FIFA, not an australian thing.

[johnno]

Are you kidding me? Football/Soccer is NOT boring!!!

English Premier League is a part of my life since I was 12 years old! :thumbleft:

you need to get a more exciting life andie :shock:

[Stramash]

Only using 'gridiron' as I presumed that was you were referring to as 'football'.

So what sport do you mean by the term 'football' then?

actually, you were the first one in this forum to refer to soccer as football. i have always referred to soccer as soccer in this forum.

football is whatever you want it to be depending on what country you are in. i'm australian so football is league, union or aussie rules. soccer is soccer. saves confusion 8)

in kiwi land, football would be rugby union cos that is their national game.

americans (usa ones) would call gridiron football, same as kiwis (national game)

south americans would call soccer football.

i guess the other heathens in the world would think the same as you and call soccer football.

if you said to an aussie that you were going to watch a game of football, he/she would be wondering if you are going to watch league, union or aussie rules, not a game of soccer. i think this trying to change the terminology to "football" would be driven by FIFA, not an australian thing.

but, and you miss the point here, no-one is trying to CHANGE the terminology. Football or Association Football is the ORIGINAL term, and that used by the majority of English speaking countries and many non English speaking ones too.

While I appreciate and concede that some of the former colonies and cultural backwaters have developed their own games which have come to be labelled 'football'. Even the word 'soccer' itself is derived from the 'association' part of 'association football'.

[johnno]

Football Federation Australia (FFA) is the governing body for the sport of football (soccer) in Australia. Before 1 January 2005, it was known as the Australian Soccer Association (ASA), which succeeded Soccer Australia in this role in 2003. Ben Buckley is currently the CEO of the FFA and Frank Lowy is the chairman.[1]

Among other duties, the FFA oversees Australia's national football teams (including the Socceroos (men), the Matildas (women), the Olyroos and other various youth teams); national coaching programmes; coordination with the various state and territory governing bodies; and the national club competition. Until 2004 the national competition was the National Soccer League; the FFA launched a new national league in 2005, the A-League.

from wikipedia. can you count how many times the term "soccer" is used here? 8)

he Australia national football team represents Australia in international association football competitions. Its official nickname is the "Socceroos". The team is controlled by Football Federation Australia (FFA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation and also an invitee member of the ASEAN Football Federation since 2006.

Australia is a four-time Oceania Football Confederation champion and has been represented at two FIFA World Cup tournaments, in 1974 and 2006. 14th is Australia's highest ever FIFA World Ranking since the rankings were introduced in 1992. Australia topped their group in the 2010 World Cup qualification and became one of the first nations to qualify for the finals tournament without losing a match and only conceding one goal.

World Cup qualification in 2005 has seen Australian association football increase considerably in domestic popularity and in international competitiveness.

from wikipedia. can you count how many times the term "football" is used here?

i notice you didn't include the time australia beat england when sven was coaching the team.

but i did notice the nickname for the team is SOCCEROOS, not FOOTBALLROOS

[CIA_Andie]

Are you kidding me? Football/Soccer is NOT boring!!!

English Premier League is a part of my life since I was 12 years old! :thumbleft:

you need to get a more exciting life andie :shock:

believe me, I did and I am!

[Stramash]

i notice you didn't include the time australia beat england when sven was coaching the team.

but i did notice the nickname for the team is SOCCEROOS, not FOOTBALLROOS

another mistake John old chum, as a Scotsman, I am more than happy to mention any defeat my Southern neighbours suffer (especially if it takes attention away from our own prolific shiteness)

[johnno]

Even the word 'soccer' itself is derived from the 'association' part of 'association football'.

UMMMM, as i come from the backwaters, please explain how you get SOCCER from ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL? i can see an S, i can see an O, i can see one C, no E's, no R's. please explain professor :roll: is it "one who socc's"?

[johnno]

the best part about watching a game of soccer is checking the news results in the morning to see who won (cos i've gone to sleep 10 minutes after the game has started) and seeing the 20 seconds of highlights

[Stramash]

Even the word 'soccer' itself is derived from the 'association' part of 'association football'.

UMMMM, as i come from the backwaters, please explain how you get SOCCER from ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL? i can see an S, i can see an O, i can see one C, no E's, no R's. please explain professor :roll: is it "one who socc's"?

close enough...

asSOCiation

SOCcer

assoc is the shortened form of association so only a small step to soccer

Reportedly, the man who stands at the origin of the word soccer is Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student who always preferred shortened versions of words, such as brekkers for breakfast, or rugger for rugby.

[johnno]

assoc is the shortened form of association so only a small step to soccer

Reportedly, the man who stands at the origin of the word soccer is Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student who always preferred shortened versions of words, such as brekkers for breakfast, or rugger for rugby.

thats not a step, thats a f^*king leap.

applying your logic, shouldn't the game have been called FOOTERS (FOOTBALL) ? i've never heard of the game being called ASSOCIATION

[Stramash]

assoc is the shortened form of association so only a small step to soccer

Reportedly, the man who stands at the origin of the word soccer is Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student who always preferred shortened versions of words, such as brekkers for breakfast, or rugger for rugby.

thats not a step, thats a f^*king leap.

applying your logic, shouldn't the game have been called FOOTERS (FOOTBALL) ? i've never heard of the game being called ASSOCIATION

aint my logic, it's Charles Brown's logic, but it aint that big a leap.

And you may never have heard of it being called 'association football' but that it is the correct and proper title for the game.

And here in the UK, we often talk about 'watching the 'footie' so not to far from your 'footers' suggestion.

In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from soccer to football to align with the general international usage of the term. In 2007, New Zealand followed suit citing "the international game is called football". FIFA, the sport's world governing body, defines the sport as association football in its statutes, but the term most commonly used by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee is football.

[johnno]

In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from soccer to football to align with the general international usage of the term. In 2007, New Zealand followed suit citing "the international game is called football". FIFA, the sport's world governing body, defines the sport as association football in its statutes, but the term most commonly used by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee is football.

think i already said this in another post. it was driven by FIFA, not australia or new zealand. so lets go to the footy. rugby?union?ausssie rules? soccer?gridiron? its SOCCER, got it?

[Stramash]

In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from soccer to football to align with the general international usage of the term. In 2007, New Zealand followed suit citing "the international game is called football". FIFA, the sport's world governing body, defines the sport as association football in its statutes, but the term most commonly used by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee is football.

think i already said this in another post. it was driven by FIFA, not australia or new zealand. so lets go to the footy. rugby?union?ausssie rules? soccer?gridiron? its SOCCER, got it?

Yes, and was driven by FIFA since the former colonies didn't have the brains to think things through themselves..

Call it what you want, does not change what the proper and original name is...

:twisted:

[johnno]

yes, SOCCER

soccer noun (UK also football)

a game played between two teams of eleven people, where each team tries to win by kicking a ball into the other team's goal

football noun

• (UK and US soccer) a game played between two teams of eleven people, where each team tries to win by kicking a ball into the other team's goal

can you notice the similarity? so to avoid any confusion, isn't it better to call it soccer? thats what i did in this forum. i didn't say FOOTBALL is boring, just soccer 8)

[Stramash]

**sigh**

[digitalcat]

yes

[johnno]

football (union, league, aussie rules, gridiron) is exciting. soccer is best seen in the 20 second news highlights.

YESSSSSSS *sighes*

[Stramash]

football (union, league, aussie rules, gridiron) is exciting. soccer is best seen in the 20 second news highlights.

YESSSSSSS *sighes*

once again (sigh) your opinion, and you are perfectly entitled to it, but just because you think it doesn't make it so.

At the end of the day, and whatever quaint name you want to give it, football is the most watched sport in the world.

That speaks for itself.

[VityaOmariWest]

Is it boring? There is no precise answer on this question!

We are all different people with differnt opinion and that`s all.

Stramash wrote 'football is the MOST watched sport in the world'! It mean that football isn`t boring for MOST people in the world!

[DANNO]

not since I viewed that Olympic Curling :shock:

[English_Bob]

football (union, league, aussie rules, gridiron) is exciting. soccer is best seen in the 20 second news highlights.

YESSSSSSS *sighes*

once again (sigh) your opinion, and you are perfectly entitled to it, but just because you think it doesn't make it so.

At the end of the day, and whatever quaint name you want to give it, football is the most watched sport in the world.

That speaks for itself.

By sheer numbers, football is loved by billions of people across the globe... way more than any other sport.

This thread is going nowhere - you think football is boring... but most of the rest of the world don't.

What are you going to do... tell them all individually they're wrong?

[CiaranM]

football (union, league, aussie rules, gridiron) is exciting. soccer is best seen in the 20 second news highlights.

YESSSSSSS *sighes*

once again (sigh) your opinion, and you are perfectly entitled to it, but just because you think it doesn't make it so.

At the end of the day, and whatever quaint name you want to give it, football is the most watched sport in the world.

That speaks for itself.

By sheer numbers, football is loved by billions of people across the globe... way more than any other sport.

This thread is going nowhere - you think football is boring... but most of the rest of the world don't.

What are you going to do... tell them all individually they're wrong?

well judging by his efforts to convince Iain it should be called soccer and not football .... that could take some time !!! :roll: :roll:

[johnno]

football (union, league, aussie rules, gridiron) is exciting. soccer is best seen in the 20 second news highlights.

YESSSSSSS *sighes*

once again (sigh) your opinion, and you are perfectly entitled to it, but just because you think it doesn't make it so.

At the end of the day, and whatever quaint name you want to give it, football is the most watched sport in the world.

That speaks for itself.

SOCCER SOCCER SOCCER IS BORING.

football (union, league, aussie rules gridiron) is exciting. what would happen to a soccer player if he was crunched in a tackle which is what union, league, aussie rules gridiron(hereafter referred by me as ULARG) is all about. God, they roll around now like a bunch of primadonnas if someone touches them with a little finger. BORING

[bigKus]

well is it?l

Football is only sport game that I follow and know rules better than other sports. I was even a player (of the community for some fun sharity event) when i was young ) :-)