kypros1992
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Im sick to death of hearing Channel 7,9 etc. calling football 'soccer'. ITS CALLED FOOTBALL!!!
It's Football NOT Soccer! (1 Viewer)
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kaz1
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That's cause in Australia League, Rugby and AFL are also reffered to as football. SBS is exceptional as they are football crazy.
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The solution to this is to simply adopt the following convention:
Thugby league = Northern Hand-egg
ALF = Southern Hand-egg
Association football = Football
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Though what about teams like Melbourne Storm and Sydney Swans. They break game-naming conventions.
kaz1
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They can still play it there just like American football and European handball is also played in other places.
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don't worry about the Storm, they'll fold soon after News Limited stops propping them up
No ive always called it soccer and always will call it soccer. Everyone else also used to call it soccer before Australia made the World Cup in 2006, then after that everyone started getting more interested in soccer when before only the really devoted fans watched or cared about the Socceroos.
emiliieee
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no one in australia calls it 'football' only the ones here who know/love/play the game say football but when we talk to someone we don't then it's soccer.
and yeah SBS is pretty much the ones who say football.. Les Murray is wog anyways so of course he'd say it.
and yeah SBS is pretty much the ones who say football.. Les Murray is wog anyways so of course he'd say it.
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Soccer ftw as it's unambiguous, and cos we're in Australia.
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socceroos?
they're just asking for it too be called soccer, and calling it football just confuses it more
emiliieee
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it's already confused them by playing with an egg shaped ball using their hands.. instead of their foot..
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who cares? it stands for association football...they usually call it european football to differentiate
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Wow, get over it.
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It is soccer ok
this is Australia
this is Australia
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the play games of the ethnics and orientals will, in this great land, always be known as soccer.
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Football usually refers to the most popular ball game in that country/region.
NSW/QLD = NRL
VIC/SA/WA = AFL
USA = NFL
UK = Soccer
And because soccer has been introduced and not gained popularity for this long it will forever be named as soccer.
NSW/QLD = NRL
VIC/SA/WA = AFL
USA = NFL
UK = Soccer
And because soccer has been introduced and not gained popularity for this long it will forever be named as soccer.