Olympics Thread
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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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@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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@machpants I've also read several studies, mostly UK ones.
The graph that you posted earlier, looks like the graphs that shows the fraction of times the word 'soccer' has been used of the total number of occasions that both 'soccer' and 'football' have been used. So it doesn't show at all how many times 'football' has been used, and I'm quite confident that if it did, the trendline would be much higher than the 'soccer' line in that graph.
Anyway. I didn't mean to distract from the thread, so I'll leave it at this.
Obviously, your read of the conclusions of the study I posted is entirely different from mine. Quite funny in itself.
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
A Burnleyesque win there. Reid was immense.
Now NZ needs to get another win.
Is that our first ever All Whites win in a major tournament?
Yes.
The goal secured New Zealand’s first-ever win in men’s football at the Olympics, after previous draws in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012.
Only draws at the WC in SA.
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
A Burnleyesque win there. Reid was immense.
Now NZ needs to get another win.
Is that our first ever All Whites win in a major tournament?
I wish the Olympics was on spark. Then I could watch the game or a highlights package despite missing it in real time
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
A Burnleyesque win there. Reid was immense.
Now NZ needs to get another win.
Is that our first ever All Whites win in a major tournament?
I wish the Olympics was on spark. Then I could watch the game or a highlights package despite missing it in real time
One goal, won't take long
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
A Burnleyesque win there. Reid was immense.
Now NZ needs to get another win.
Is that our first ever All Whites win in a major tournament?
I wish the Olympics was on spark. Then I could watch the game or a highlights package despite missing it in real time
One goal, won't take long
Perfect for a Spark 5 minute highlights package
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