I hope the 0.01% of football fans who didn't know that, will overlook your patronising tone and just be grateful for the new information.I know it’s de rigeur to say the word “soccer” as a denigration of American Soccer, but you do know it was the original nickname of the sport in England first, right?
It’s a truncated form of Association Football from when Rugby Football was the name of that sport. Once Rugby Football became simply Rugby, Association Football became just Football…but it had been called soccer until then.
It used to be the case that competing businesses objected to planning or licensing and were successful. So an off licence would object to another shop applying for a license, saying there was no need for it. Often, they would win and block a competitor. Bonkers.Absolute insanity is beginning at the PL
Imagine you own a gardening business. You can only charge your customers whatever you’re allowed to by an ‘independent panel’ - a panel that happens to be made up of all the other gardening businesses that you’re competing with to make a living
Madness
No, there was a mag right up to the 70s called, iirc, Soccer Monthly.I hope the 0.01% of football fans who didn't know that, will overlook your patronising tone and just be grateful for the new information.
For the last century or so, it's been de rigeur over here to regard anyone who uses the word 'soccer' as a complete arsehole. Right?
Has he told you that Pickles found the World cup yet?I hope the 0.01% of football fans who didn't know that, will overlook your patronising tone and just be grateful for the new information.
For the last century or so, it's been de rigeur over here to regard anyone who uses the word 'soccer' as a complete arsehole. Right?
I’ve heard they have an amazing water feature!The rags gardening business only sells manure.
News to me...Has he told you that Pickles found the World cup yet?
Probably went out of business 50 years ago because nobody wanted to buy a mag with that outdated title.No, there was a mag right up to the 70s called, iirc, Soccer Monthly.
I remember soccer being quite widely used in the 70s/80s in England. There was “Granada Soccer Night” and “Soccer Six” on telly, and magazines and annuals with it in the title.I hope the 0.01% of football fans who didn't know that, will overlook your patronising tone and just be grateful for the new information.
For the last century or so, it's been de rigeur over here to regard anyone who uses the word 'soccer' as a complete arsehole. Right?