Football or Soccer?

That wasn't very nice!

I'll accept you hug though

Thank God you accepted the hug, I would have begged!!

No need to beg. I'm a sucker for hugs

Soccer... That's like me calling basketball.. Fokker?

enough people I know from Aus call it Soccer. I have to correct them its gosh darn football!!!!! sort it out!

I know Aussies who call it football, but those are the ones who actually go to Melbourne victory games. They differentiate it from Aussie rules by calling that Footy.

Football for sure!!!! LSU TIGERS!!!!!!

I use both

Football all the way it`s not fun watching people kicking a ball to me it`s un excting it`s wierd to me

Footie!

@kevbev

"enough people I know from Aus call it Soccer. I have to correct them its gosh darn football!!!!! sort it out!"

For the vast majority of Aussies Association football will ALWAYS be known as soccer, and no pom or other outsider is going to change that!!!
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In Australia Association football(AF) is WELL BEHIND Australian Rules Football and Rugby League re popularity. In Australia (outside of NSW and QLD) Aussie Rules (usually referred to as "footy" but sometimes as "football" ) completely dominates. Therefore, unless you know you are talking to a fellow AF fan then referring to the sport as 'football' just leads to confusion. In NSW and QLD League (often referred to as "football/footy" dominates, so again, for ease of communication AF is referred to as soccer.

Bit of trivia - the laws of Association football were first codified in 1863. The laws for Australian Rules Football were first codified in 1859.

The Football Association ADOPTED the laws of football and ADAPTED them into the game we know today in 1863, however, they adapted them from a codified game which embodied dribbling with the ball by the foot, throw ins, passing the ball forward and propelling it into a goal which had been in existence for many years at Cambridge University and was formally codified by the University as "Cambridge Rules Football" in 1848.

The FA took the Cambridge Rules and included such elements as corner kicks and free kicks for foul play from a variant of the Cambridge Rules played in Sheffield (and known as the Sheffield Rules) from 1857. Sheffield FC, the world's first and oldest football club was founded in 1857 and has been given special status by FIFA in recognition of this fact.

But football in one form or anther was being played in England long before that.

The Halmote Rolls of Durham contain entries dated 1366 that "householders should chastise their servants who had been accustomed to play at the foot ball game."

Football became forbidden, and with good reason. Matches between villages became bloodbaths and vendettas were frequent. One monastic chronicler wrote: " The game at which they play is called by some the foot ball game. It is one by which young men in country sport propel a huge ball not by throwing it into the air but by striking and rolling it along the ground and that not with their hands but with their feet. A game I say abominable enough and in my judgment at least more common, undignified and worthless than any other kind of game, it rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves."

The king himself declared football outlaw at this time due to the fact that men were playing the game instead of practicing archery which was necessary for national defence.


Football being played in Derby circa 1500