Okay, not much seems to happening here at the mo so i'm off, but before i go i was wondering what Football teams people supported. thought it might be interesting.

Myself, i support Rushden and Diamonds (Division 2 here we come!!).

I'll check latter or tomorrow to see what people put.

Don't really support anyone now. I used to go and watch Nottingham Forest a few times in the early 90s (yes, even when they were relegated).
Stuart Pearce is a footballing God.

Although I do have some knowledge of Aston Villa from the early 80s (ahhh...Gary Shaw), thanks to a brainwashing cousin. I was only 6 and I am from Birmingham, yer honour!

Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool and the great HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. The only teams to have won the league THREE times in a row.

I support Huddersfield Town. That's yer answer.

I thank you.

Sorry, what? Oh, you mean SOCCER?

tut

Oh dear indeed, we where shocking in that match.
but we beat hull 4-2 the other day.
away to Bury tonight - COME ON.

Huddersfield Town!!! Why?

Cos I was brought up as a Huddersfield Town fan. That alright? Because if it's not, I'll go support Arsenal, since they're winning at the moment.

alright, calm down Frank, no need to get flustered about it!!

Oh, I'm not! Don't take it the wrong way.

OK Frank, lets be bestest friends forever

Up the Boro marching on to Europe!

I used to be a bit of a regular watching the Monkey Hangers at Hartlepool.

i hate hartlepool
go Rushden...

Do you know a twat called Martyn Rose? He used to work at the ground. Until he was sacked because he couldn't be arsed turning up - to see the team he supported!

> Oh dear indeed, we where shocking in that match.
> but we beat hull 4-2 the other day.
> away to Bury tonight - COME ON.

we'll give Hartlepool a beating tonight, just like we should have given Shewsbury a mauling a week ago.

It was nice watching all the Bluenose scum shitting themselves at Villa Park.

You'll always live in the shadow of the Villa you prick

says it all really

> It was nice watching all the Bluenose scum shitting themselves at Villa
> Park.

> You'll always live in the shadow of the Villa you prick

Savage, disgrace to Wrexham, arsehole

Well, that's Aussie Rules through and through.
Now if we want to get into a debate with those misguided fools who run around referring to Rugby as "football", I think you've got a real point.

> Well, that's Aussie Rules through and through.
> Now if we want to get into a debate with those misguided fools who run
> around referring to Rugby as "football", I think you've got a
> real point.
>

Aussie rules isn't football.
American football isn't football.
Rugby isn't football.
FOOTBALL is football, the beautiful game.

To give both games their full names:

Rugby Football
Soccer Football.

It was decided one was to be referred to as Rugby and the other referred to as Football

> Aussie rules isn't football.

LOL Where I'm from, we call it football - soccer is soccer and that's that.
We need an international arbiter to settle this one.
Yet another reason to argue for one world government NOW.

> To give both games their full names:

> Rugby Football
> Soccer Football.

> It was decided one was to be referred to as Rugby and the other referred
> to as Football

I don't believe football was ever called "Soccer football"...is this definitely true?

> I don't believe football was ever called "Soccer football"...is
> this definitely true?

In a long career in English Football administration I can categorically state that I have never heard the expression "soccer football".

The name Association football was first used when the sport was codified by the Football Association in 1863 to distinguish it from the numerous version of football that were around at the time. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of 'Association' and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to a student at Oxford called Charles Wreford Brown. He is said to have often referred to breakfast as 'brekkers' and rugby football as 'rugger' etc. He went on to play for the English national side and became vice-president of the Football Association. The term 'Association football' is rarely used today, though some clubs still use Association Football Club ("AFC") in their names .

In the late 19th century the word 'soccer' tended to be used by the upper-class elite, whilst the majority of ordinary working people used the word football. The sport was exported by ex-patriate Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted the common English term into their own language thus is became Fußball in German, voetbal in Dutch, futebol in Portuguese, and fútbol in Spanish. In France the word remained unchanged as football, although in Quebec the word is le soccer. In Italy, a ceremonial Florentine court ritual known as o calcio storico ("kickball in costume") bore enough similarly to the imported game for the word calcio to be accepted instead.

Today the word 'soccer' is predominantly used by English speaking nations that evolved their own native codes of football, (i.e. Australia - see: Australian Rules football, Republic of Ireland - see: Gaelic football, Canada - see: Canadian football and the United States - see: American football), but this was not always the case. Indeed, the first Association football team formed outside of England was the Oneida Football Club of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Early leagues in the US mostly called themselves football leagues, including the American League of Professional Football, National Association Football League and the Southern New England Football League. The governing body of the sport in the US did not drop the word "football" from it's name until 1974, and did not have the word "soccer" in it's name until 1945. What is now the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) was originally the US Football Association, and was formed in 1912 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. In 1945 the word "soccer" was added to the official name of the organization and the word football was kept, resulting in the name of "US Soccer Football Association".

The USSFA later dropped the word "football" and substituted another word beginning with "F" to become what it is today, the USSF or US Soccer Federation. Similarly in Australia the early governing bodies used the term 'British Football' (i.e. the Southern British Football Association in New South Wales, the Anglo-Australian Football Association in Victoria and the British Football Associations of Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.

In countries which didn't develop a rival sport able to make a claim to the name football the word 'soccer' was very rarely used. Today the increasing usage of the word may well owe much to the cultural dominance of the USA, which is shaping language and definitions well beyond its borders. However football remains by far the most common word used worldwide to describe the sport.