Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]
Kieran- congrats on the 2000th post, even if it was to give Bob the fingerIf I were in Scotland I'd buy ya a drink
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Non-alcoholic, I assume?
Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]
Thanks dudeYou wouldn't even want to be in Scotland at the moment, bloody raining! I'll just get on the next flight to Chicago then and we'll try that that 312 you were talking about
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Oh yeah, sorry Matt, it'll have to be a Diet Coke, since Bob says alcohol is not for me
Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]
I wouldn't have bought you alcohol anyway. You're underage, and if you drink it, you will die.
Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]
Oh, that is a shame.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:Hey Jason! You play soccer, right?
Originally posted by drewhiggins:Is that seriously him though?
Originally posted by drewhiggins:Hey Jason! You play soccer, right?
Originally posted by WikipediaThe rules of association football were codified in the United Kingdom by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other versions of football played at the time, such as rugby football. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. An early usage found in an English 1892 periodical.[1] The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. (See Oxford -er) Clive Toye noted that even English people called the game "soccer" interchangeably with "football" until the 1970s. "A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. ... Toye [said] 'They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer.'”[2]
The term association football has never been widely used, although in Britain some clubs in rugby football strongholds adopted the suffix Association Football Club (A.F.C.) to avoid confusion with the dominant sport in their area, and FIFA, the world governing body for the sport, is a French-language acronym of "Fédération Internationale de Football Association" – the International Federation of Association Football. "Soccer football", is used less often than it once was: the United States Soccer Federation was known as the United States Soccer Football Association from 1945 until 1974, when it adopted its current name. Some soccer clubs, in Australia for example, still contain the words "soccer football" in their titles.
The game is now generally known in English as "football" or "soccer", with the relative prevalence of the two words varying from country to country (in Australia, Canada and the United States, for example, local "football" codes are prevalent). It is also colloquially called footy, footie or footer in various places.[citation needed]