PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

DJ1 said:
Apologies, I was too subtle and I think you misunderstood as a result, my point was more about listing a football business in New York.....I assumed there was the potential for investor confusion as football in America isn't soccer.

Anyway, no worries.
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My apologies if I got hold of the wrong end of the stick.
 
GortonBlue62 said:
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?
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Thanks for the constructive, non-patronizing response. Always good to hear from the self-selected spokesperson for the 99.9%, especially when they are so forthcoming with the explanation of who is, and is not, a complete arsehole.

Again, my thanks for clearing everything up.
 
GortonBlue62 said:
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.
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Is it just Gorton you speak for, or all of the footballing world? I’m confused.

Always is a very long time.

As for the assertion that soccer is a word that only exists for Americans, I fear you may be stepping outside your expertise and anointed position as the spokesperson for the 99.9%, especially given the numerous examples provided…by others.

By the way, are you a paid spokesperson for the world of football, or just a virtual spokesperson?

This is all so confusing considering the person who made the original comment apologized and I, in turn, did likewise for suggesting they were saying something they weren’t trying to say.

Now, where were we…Football for the 99.9% and Soccer for the Americans?

And, my apologies if this is all a little pissy. Woke up for a pee in a foreign city, hit my phone to check the time, saw it was the middle of the night and I didn’t seem ready to go back to sleep, so I thought a little read of BM might help. Not sure it’s working, so I might be a little cranky!
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Is it just Gorton you speak for, or all of the footballing world? I’m confused.

Always is a very long time.

As for the assertion that soccer is a word that only exists for Americans, I fear you may be stepping outside your expertise and anointed position as the spokesperson for the 99.9%, especially given the numerous examples provided…by others.

By the way, are you a paid spokesperson for the world of football, or just a virtual spokesperson?

This is all so confusing considering the person who made the original comment apologized and I, in turn, did likewise for suggesting they were saying something they weren’t trying to say.

Now, where were we…Football for the 99.9% and Soccer for the Americans?

And, my apologies if this is all a little pissy. Woke up for a pee in a foreign city, hit my phone to check the time, saw it was the middle of the night and I didn’t seem ready to go back to sleep, so I thought a little read of BM might help. Not sure it’s working, so I might be a little cranky!
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Didn't want to add to this but ....

Association Football

The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the IFAB since 1886.
The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt assoccer (a shortening of "association"), it was later reduced to the modern spelling.[11][12] This form of slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for five pound and ten pound notes, and the now-archaic footer that was also a name for association football.[13] The word soccer arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[14]

Posh gits ruining football again. Anyway ... no news?
 
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