It's soccer in Ireland because we have Geaelic Football. I presume it's the same in Australia. So it's not just the Americans.Maybe in Didsbury when the tennis courts were full and you had to play the round ball game.
In Gorton it was always football and always will be.
The word soccer only still exists for our American cousins. I write software for the virtual gaming market, our American products are relabelled 'soccer' but for the rest of the world it's football.
Just checked on the OS, still says Manchester City Football Club.
This wasn’t Didsbury mate. It was England in the past. Soccer was widely used as a nickname for the game. I’ve given examples which you conveniently ignored so here’s a few more for you to ignore.Maybe in Didsbury when the tennis courts were full and you had to play the round ball game.
In Gorton it was always football and always will be.
The word soccer only still exists for our American cousins. I write software for the virtual gaming market, our American products are relabelled 'soccer' but for the rest of the world it's football.
Just checked on the OS, still says Manchester City Football Club.
This wasn’t Didsbury mate. It was England in the past. Soccer was widely used as a nickname for the game. I’ve given examples which you conveniently ignored so here’s a few more for you to ignore.View attachment 125922
Thing that winds me up with Yanks and football.Maybe in Didsbury when the tennis courts were full and you had to play the round ball game.
In Gorton it was always football and always will be.
The word soccer only still exists for our American cousins. I write software for the virtual gaming market, our American products are relabelled 'soccer' but for the rest of the world it's football.
Just checked on the OS, still says Manchester City Football Club.
Didsbury tennis courts were the source of balls for dog fetch then lost balls, the staple for playground games and football in Wythenshawe.Maybe in Didsbury when the tennis courts were full and you had to play the round ball game.
I don’t believe that convenient myth. I don’t think the police did either but let it go.Has he told you that Pickles found the World cup yet?
Yes. All of that.The bored close season arguments about nothing. No news on the topic title then? I was hoping they might have bad news to bury in an Ex American President assassination attempt or is Soccer an acceptable term to refer to football whilst playing tennis in Disbury.
We used to as kids in the fifties. And Didsbury was golf! Sale was rugger.I’ve never heard a single person in this country use the word soccer in real life.