Should we rename "Football" to "Soccer"?

[FatPaul]

This guy thinks so.

 

[BLADES1988]

It's not football at the moment so yeah why not.

 

[SwissBlade]

No duckie

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Posh boys name for it.

 

[SB_90]

 

[knowsnowt]

I think we should kill him.

 

[FatPaul]

I think we should kill him.

I think so too, he's a right prick.

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

Posh boys name for it.

True, and not the Americanisation that many think.
Rugby football - Rugger
Association football -Soccer
Not that I'm a posh boy or owt!

 

[Inter_blade83]

Togger

 

[Willglynning]

On an unrelated note, I think things would have been a lot better if we’d gone fully metric when pretty much the rest of the world did.

 

[HVR]

True, and not the Americanisation that many think.
Rugby football - Rugger
Association football -Soccer
Not that I'm a posh boy or owt!

And isn’t rugby called football, because it was a team sport originally played on foot and not mounted on a horse as was the norm? As in foot soldier. Which answers the question, why is rugby called football when they carry it with their hands?

 

[Whiston Blade]

It doesn't bother me either way to be honest, Soccer Saturday, Soccer AM have been around for years without issue.

 

[originaltrueblade]

No

 

[DronnieBlade]

Repent.

Repent.

UTB

 

[JT89]

Rename it "English soccer"

 

[Stretch]

Or, why don't the Americans just fully adopt the term 'Gridiron' for their own game, which it is already called in other countries, and sounds better than American Football anyway?

It's a name that would also chime well in a country where many of its inhabitants are seemingly obsessed with guns, power tools and all other forms of ultra masculine activities.

 

[Blade-on-Tyne]

And isn’t rugby called football, because it was a team sport originally played on foot and not mounted on a horse as was the norm? As in foot soldier. Which answers the question, why is rugby called football when they carry it with their hands?

The don’t use a ball either.
The thing that they kick and throw around is more like an overfilled sausage.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

No.
There's :
Football
rugby
American Rugby
American rounders

End of.

 

[Ricardo Mantelban]

What about kickball or floorball or kickbag(ouch) or fieldball or kickbladder or bootball..... sorry I’m on meds.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

In the Red, White and Khaki book that looked at out 1915 cup win, I was surprised at the number of contemporary sources quoted, from fans and officials, that called it soccer. There doesn’t appear to have been an issue with that, and it does feel like the objection to the term is more of a late 20th century thing than something rooted in the traditions of the game. I’ve never had an issue with it. I call it football as most people do, other people call it soccer, both are fine. The number of countries where soccer is the majority term is actually much fewer than I thought – I don’t see an issue with both terms continuing.

 

[Vikkster]

NO

 

[Yank]

To be honest I really don't like when Americans used terms like 'football' or 'pitch' when talking about soccer. Understand of course that those are the world known terms for those things as it were and this might sound extreme to some, but our league, the MLS, and the sport over here in general imo will not begin to gain it's own identity until it stops fully adopting customs as it were from overseas. Even when clubs over here have FC as part of their name it irks me. For instance, my local team Charlotte, starts play in the MLS in 2022 and of course are Charlotte FC when they should be Charlotte SC in my opinion.

 

[Ricardo Mantelban]

To be honest I really don't like when Americans used terms like 'football' or 'pitch' when talking about soccer. Understand of course that those are the world known terms for those things as it were and this might sound extreme to some, but our league, the MLS, and the sport over here in general imo will not begin to gain it's own identity until it stops fully adopting customs as it were from overseas. Even when clubs over here have FC as part of their name it irks me. For instance, my local team Charlotte, starts play in the MLS in 2022 and of course are Charlotte FC when they should be Charlotte SC in my opinion.

Is this due to being the self proclaimed rulers of the free World. ( irony)

 

[Piffle and Tosh]

No

 

[bypassblade]

All my life it's been football okay "togga" when a kid I hate the word Soccer it's an Americanism we don't need or want. Why do the media insists on brining Americanisms into our language "staycation" being the latest, just bin them fucking horrible.

 

[Worksop II]

of course are Charlotte FC when they should be Charlotte SC in my opinion.

You Sir ... are a bounder

 

[Yoonited]

Is this due to being the self proclaimed rulers of the free World. ( irony)

Free my arse.Unless you're white middle class of course.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

All my life it's been football okay "togga" when a kid I hate the word Soccer it's an Americanism we don't need or want. Why do the media insists on brining Americanisms into our language "staycation" being the latest, just bin them fucking horrible.

Only as has already been said, it’s not an Americanism, it’s a Britishism that the Americans latched on to because they already had a game called football.

 

[Ricardo Mantelban]

Free my arse.Unless you're white middle class of course.

Or married

 

[HVR]

In the Red, White and Khaki book that looked at out 1915 cup win, I was surprised at the number of contemporary sources quoted, from fans and officials, that called it soccer. There doesn’t appear to have been an issue with that, and it does feel like the objection to the term is more of a late 20th century thing than something rooted in the traditions of the game. I’ve never had an issue with it. I call it football as most people do, other people call it soccer, both are fine. The number of countries where soccer is the majority term is actually much fewer than I thought – I don’t see an issue with both terms continuing.

Also to add the American English debate - how we get annoyed by the way they changed the "Proper English" into American English and poke fun of them. But, after watching modern day US TV over the years - I think it's the other way round. We have updated and changed our pronunciation, speech and words - whereas the Americans sound more like 17/18th Century English speakers (at least the scriptwriters do for TV and movies). Maybe it's to do with them being originally Pilgrims, Religious and quite Conservative - that they seem to use archaic grammar and words that we would originally have been speaking 200 years ago.
I would guess that a lot of words that we grumble at are what they have preserved and we've changed.
*That's only my opinion though - I'm not using google or owt to research this theory.