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Vampire_Chicken posted...

I'd point out that the Wiki article says "soccer" was a term used by the upper class, whereas the working and middle classes preferred the term "football".

The article also says it was more or less "interchangeable" until it started declining in popularity. In the 1960s. And mainly just because you hate your own upper class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYA3oTG8fg

So in your parent's lifetime, there was absolutely a point in time when no one in Britain would have found calling it soccer all that weird or offensive or wrong at all. The ridiculous backlash against the idea isn't something that's always existed, but is something that had to slowly come into being over time. And relatively recently (at least compared to how long the sport itself has existed).



Vampire_Chicken posted...

All I'm saying is: while Americans should continue to feel free to do so, they might be interested to know that most Brits no longer call it that and we haven't done for maybe half a century. Just a tip, in the interests of furthering cultural awareness. OK?

Then in the interests of cultural awareness, most Brits should probably stop acting like the term is something that Americans randomly came up with just to troll them, or because Americans are too stupid to understand how sports work. If you can't be bothered to know the history of your own sport, why should we care about your opinions?

Most of us are fully aware that everyone else calls soccer "football" (at least those of us who care that soccer even exists in the first place). Most of us also don't really give a shit (about the sport or what anyone else calls it).

And beyond everything else, the original point still stands - you still named it that in the first place.



Sufferedphoneix posted...

If I'm not mistaken does it not have more similarities to rugby then soccer? And even then still pretty different

And rugby's actual technical name is "Rugby Football" (in the same way that soccer is "Association Football". So guess how American football got the name in the first place.