Olympics Thread
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@act-crusader said in Olympics Thread:
Matildas are a well coached side.
That was their first win with this coach! Aust have more quality in their side and haven't lost to NZ in decades.
I didn't watch the game but wasn't surprised at the result. The biggest surprise was a goal (albeit late) as the Football Ferns really struggle to put the ball into the net on this stage.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
Yank chicks lost the kicky ball stuff to Sweden 3-0.
Getting some Twitter stick because of some opinion pieces saying how easy it would be for them.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Ugghhh
In the finest traditions of equestrian athletes
That's a curly one
How much did the horse snort before it was caught?
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@machpants FOOTball (sorry, pet peeve).
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants FOOTball (sorry, pet peeve).
Let's do a history lesson, the term soccer (from Association Football, to stop confuion with rugger) was used several years before the term football (on it's own) was used to refer to just one type of football. Therefore soccer is the correct term, I'm a traditionalist
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It was always soccer down under until NZers and Australians moved to the UK en masse and got indoctrinated.
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Tokyo Opening Ceremony Director Fired For Historical Holocaust Joke
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
It was always soccer down under until NZers and Australians moved to the UK en masse and got indoctrinated.
Are the Australian football team still called the Socceroos? It was always soccer growing up in the early 80s
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
It was always soccer down under until NZers and Australians moved to the UK en masse and got indoctrinated.
Are the Australian football team still called the Socceroos? It was always soccer growing up in the early 80s
It was soccer even in the UK until 1980s ish, then that came to be seen as 'american' - but really football/footy is the dominant code in your area
UK publication usage of soccer
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This study suggests otherwise. The conclusions are on page 17.
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
It was always soccer down under until NZers and Australians moved to the UK en masse and got indoctrinated.
Are the Australian football team still called the Socceroos? It was always soccer growing up in the early 80s
Think so. Footballroos doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
This study suggests otherwise. The conclusions are on page 17.
The conclusions says the same thing - there are many footballs, one soccer.
"“football” is a venerable word in the English language, which described a variety of medieval
pastimes, and which was adopted to describe several different formal codes in the last half
of the nineteenth century, including Association football, Rugby football (Union and League
versions), Gaelic football, Australian Rules Football and what Americans typically call
football and the rest of the world calls “American football”"The key point being the use of the word 'football' without any other clarification on the type to exclusively mean Association Football, was not used in the UK until years after the term soccer had been coined. Yes 'football' has now become to only mean soccer in the UK but that is not how it started. Soccer was first, football has been aroung for ever - but there are many types of football
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