Should we rename "Football" to "Soccer"?

[Tynemouth Blade]

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.

And joined the Euro!?

 

[Harry Thickett]

Some people incorrectly assume that America invented the word "Soccer" and, as a result, British fans tend to recoil from the name and stick to "Football". In fact, "soccer" is the nickname from the early 20th century and is a contraction of "Association Football". This term of affection was used throughout the last century and only slowly started to be dropped from the late 1970s. It was a surprise in 1951 that Charles Buchan called his magazine a "Football" Monthly when in all his editorials his copy was about the joy, or the skill, of soccer. Raich Carter launched his "Soccer Star" in 1952 and "World Soccer" followed in 1960. The dummy issue of Goal magazine that circulated to newsagents in the summer of 1968 featured the strap line of "The World’s Greatest Football Weekly" but, crucially, by launch it had become "The World’s Greatest Soccer Weekly".

https://www.soccerbilia.co.uk/acatalog/About-Soccerbilia.html

 

[Mesut Özil's Lawnmower]

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.

Have no issues with the MLS but have to agree with all of this

"Inter" Miami, "Real" Salt Lake etc. make me cringe a bit

Whereas your ones like New England Revolution or Portland Timbers, now they fit right in with American sports culture considering in every other major league this is how teams are named

To your latter point, there are a few that do use SC, Orlando one of them that springs to mind edit: just realised you probably already know this hahaha, but yeah

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

This is one of the things that really gets up my nose.
For a start it's called Rugby because some nutter while playing FOOTBALL at RUGBY school picked up the ball and ran with it, obviously a big slow fat guy .......
As for the USA game, You have to be a little thick not to notice the answer is in the shape of the ball, it's made to be carried in the hands not kicked along the ground by a foot, in fact it should really be called HANDBALL..
FOOTBALL on the other hand has a round ball made to be kicked by the foot......

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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.

Charlotte SC won’t work. It’s in North Carolina (NC), but very close to South Carolina (SC)...

 

[benn5712]

Did you know?
Greek for Offside is...
Offside.

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

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?

Hadn't heard that but sounds entirely plausible. I'll check with my chum Tarquin Beaufort-Smythe and get back to you