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Smokeyrone:

--- Quote from: Plynkes on October 02, 2018, 02:35:42 PM ---Well, it isn't really as simple as that. After all, Soccer (an English name, by the way, not something made up by Americans) has one of those qualifier names too: Association Football. It's no more the original than any of the others you mentioned.

There were a myriad games called "Football" hailing from the middle ages: mostly violent, lawless affairs where you could handle or kick the ball. I think Rugby school had their own distinctive version by the 1830s, which eventually developed into modern Rugby. The Rules of Soccer were codified in the 1860s when the FA was founded (based on earlier rules from the 1840s, I think), and American football also developed around that time. All this seems to have come from the Victorian impulse to impose rules and order onto the chaos that was the medieval game of football.

Not much point arguing who has the right to the name, they all do. It's all football, really.


(Cricket is better than all of them, anyway.)

--- End quote ---


There's only one "Football".    If you dont have a Miami Hurricanes, You are talking about "Futbol".

Plynkes:

carlos marighela:
Let’s be quite clear here. To qualify as a sporting pursuit, a game has to have been invented, codified or popularised by a Victorian Englishman. Preferable one that is played at a publc school. In this way, football (Association AKA soccer), Rugby (Union only) and cricket qualify as sports. Rounders, dickheads running about in crash helmets and the lobbing of horsehoes do not.

Inkpaduta:
That was a good one, Carlos  :)

orm1:
One of the ainsty football figures painted

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