The Beautiful Game: Football in all its glory

[Angra-Mainyu]

I don't, I looked it up. Another site mentions that date and the OED examples state:

Quote:

1889 E. C. DOWSON Let. 21 Feb. (1967) 38, I absolutely decline to see socca' matches.
1891 Lock to Lock Times 24 Oct. 13/2 A sterling player, and has the best interest of the ‘socker’ game at heart.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 7/1 The rival attractions of ‘rugger’ and ‘socker’.
1895 19th Cent. Nov. 862 When the boat~race, sports, and ‘soccer’ are in most men's minds.

Attention to mind-numbing details can be an advantage in my profession. >_>  

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Mr. Bono Vox

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heart Zidane.

"I know I'm the best, I know it's my last game. ******** it. Go out with a bang."

If ever enough of you have the malevolent humour to vote me into the company of our Honourable Members of Parliament I wouldn't mind going out and finishing my last day in a brawl with some backbenchers just outside the Houses of Parliament.

Hell yes. It's not becoming, of course, but it seems such a damned shame to go out meekly and without so much as a whisper. Even the glorious laurels Zidane was set for are somehow of less gravitas than a proper bit of shocking behaviour.

Yes, it was quite humourous! MWUAHAHAHA!

It was only a headbutt to the chest... yer man shoudn't have went down...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0vOgjBfD8

...it was inevitable.  

[and_solo_said]

Angra-Mainyu

and_solo_said

Its untrue.

That the Brits coined the term "soccer"? It supposed to have come into the venacular around 1895. The Football Association was formed in 1863 to standardise the rules of [association] football and forbade the carrying of the ball which lead to the clubs who favoured the Rubgy School's variant breaking away and eventually forming the rugby football rules [which Walter Camp modifed into Gridiron in 1880]. The earlier forms were socca' [OED records use in 1889], socker [1891] (rugger [1893]) and then soccer is used in 1895. I know of no other argument or suggestion for the etymology of the world. >_>

It is untrue that it comes from association football. Can't remember where it does come from, stopped listening after the first bit of whatever it was I was watching.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

and_solo_said

Angra-Mainyu

and_solo_said

Its untrue.

That the Brits coined the term "soccer"? It supposed to have come into the venacular around 1895. The Football Association was formed in 1863 to standardise the rules of [association] football and forbade the carrying of the ball which lead to the clubs who favoured the Rubgy School's variant breaking away and eventually forming the rugby football rules [which Walter Camp modifed into Gridiron in 1880]. The earlier forms were socca' [OED records use in 1889], socker [1891] (rugger [1893]) and then soccer is used in 1895. I know of no other argument or suggestion for the etymology of the world. >_>

It is untrue that it comes from association football. Can't remember where it does come from, stopped listening after the first bit of whatever it was I was watching.

Everything I've ever read says it does come from "association football". You could be right, but it doesn't matter to me much now that I got bored of having it as my signature.

Have some links anyway.  

[Angra-Mainyu]

On past history [like asserting that Christians theology no longer supported Just War theory] I call bullshit; but, it's not that important anyway.  

[and_solo_said]

Angra-Mainyu

On past history [like asserting that Christians theology no longer supported Just War theory] I call bullshit; but, it's not that important anyway.

I still maintain that it doesn't, but that conversation deviated from my point entirely.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

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Mr. Bono Vox

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heart Zidane.

"I know I'm the best, I know it's my last game. ******** it. Go out with a bang."

If ever enough of you have the malevolent humour to vote me into the company of our Honourable Members of Parliament I wouldn't mind going out and finishing my last day in a brawl with some backbenchers just outside the Houses of Parliament.

Hell yes. It's not becoming, of course, but it seems such a damned shame to go out meekly and without so much as a whisper. Even the glorious laurels Zidane was set for are somehow of less gravitas than a proper bit of shocking behaviour.

Yes, it was quite humourous! MWUAHAHAHA!

It was only a headbutt to the chest... yer man shoudn't have went down...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0vOgjBfD8

...it was inevitable.

xd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/11.stm  

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ice_illusion

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Mr. Bono Vox

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heart Zidane.

"I know I'm the best, I know it's my last game. ******** it. Go out with a bang."

If ever enough of you have the malevolent humour to vote me into the company of our Honourable Members of Parliament I wouldn't mind going out and finishing my last day in a brawl with some backbenchers just outside the Houses of Parliament.

Hell yes. It's not becoming, of course, but it seems such a damned shame to go out meekly and without so much as a whisper. Even the glorious laurels Zidane was set for are somehow of less gravitas than a proper bit of shocking behaviour.

Yes, it was quite humourous! MWUAHAHAHA!

It was only a headbutt to the chest... yer man shoudn't have went down...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0vOgjBfD8

...it was inevitable.

xd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/11.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/1.stm

Wow, bloody hell. Are these people real? eek heart

EDIT: Someone needs to give those two oiks on the left a good kicking. They look like junior supermarket managers.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

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ice_illusion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/11.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/1.stm

Wow, bloody hell. Are these people real? eek heart

EDIT: Someone needs to give those two oiks on the left a good kicking. They look like junior supermarket managers.

Readers of chap magazine. I suppose so. Didn't you give us a link to chap magazine website once? Or was it someone else?

I think they look a bit like Japanese buisnessmen (maybe their pose) and a bit like waiters. Blue shirt with navy tie is overdone.  

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ice_illusion

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ice_illusion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/11.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_the_chap_olympics/html/1.stm

Wow, bloody hell. Are these people real? eek heart

EDIT: Someone needs to give those two oiks on the left a good kicking. They look like junior supermarket managers.

Readers of chap magazine. I suppose so. Didn't you give us a link to chap magazine website once? Or was it someone else?

I think they look a bit like Japanese buisnessmen (maybe their pose) and a bit like waiters. Blue shirt with navy tie is overdone.

I did indeed, I didn't think anyone remembered though. Besides, at the time I thought it was a spoof.

I'm getting a subscription now though..

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