They call it football in the same bizarre way they call their baseball tournament The "World" Series, despite the fact the former isn't played with the foot and the latter isn't played by the world.
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They call it football in the same bizarre way they call their baseball tournament The "World" Series, despite the fact the former isn't played with the foot and the latter isn't played by the world.
No. Try to focus. They call it football because it's a variant of Rugby football (which also makes little use of the feet). As are Gaelic football, Canadian football, and Australian football.
This is actually quite a compliment to the English, that their games have been so widely adopted. But you're so focussed on your mindless hatred of everything not English that you can't see that.
Don't patronise me. I'm the one who's doing the patronising round here.
In the United States, American football is referred to as "football". The term "football" was officially established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season, when the sport first shifted from "soccer"-style rules to rugby-style rules.
So the Yanks decided to call it "FOOTball" only after they decided to NO LONGER play it with the foot and to play it with the hand instead!! That's the Yanks for you, though, I suppose.....
That's completely different from rugby football, which only got its name after it developed from football, when William Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a football match at Rugby School in 1823 and ran with it, causing all the players to chase him to get the ball back, and so a new sport was born "Rugby Football".
But rugby is two codes, and one is called rugby union and the other is rugby league. It is very rare that the sport is called "rugby football" - in England southern rugby union fans call their sport "rugby" and its northern counterpart "rugby league", whereas northern rugby league fans call their sport "rugby" and its southern counterpart "rugby union - whereas rugby's soppy, leotard, kevlar-body-armour-wearing Yank cousin, with its players wearing bigger helmets than soldiers on the frontline, is always called "football" by the Yanks.
You have to remember who it wasn't me who started trolling this thread. It was you.
Well, given that he has the mental throw weight of a fairly stupid trout, that ain't exactly a big shock.
So that "focus" thing ain't gonna happen, I guess. Not surprising, really.
Listen, Blackie, I really want you to enjoy watching your national team get whipped like a primary-school girls side, K?
He can't really help himself. If you flap a union jack around he acts the same way a bull does when he sees a red flag.
Now you've done it. Prepare for several pages on how it's the Union FLAG, not the Union Jack. No doubt interspersed with a number of references to how he loves Engerland whilst hating 90% of the people in it.
European millionaires
Dressed in fancy underwear
Run around and kick the ba'
Ending in a scoreless draw.
Dressed in fancy underwear
Run around and kick the ba'
Ending in a scoreless draw.
I've never understood team names in the English Premier League. Wolverton is the Wolves. Doesn't that mean Arsenal should be the Arses?
Today I watched Netherlands defeat Spain who were clearly overmatched. RVP's header was almost unimaginable!
I predicted Brazil will beat Argentina in the final, and I stand by that even though Brazil looked mediocre in their opening match.
England will not get out of their group.
Had Silva converted with 40 minutes gone in the first half, Spain would have been up 2-0 and the match most likely would have been over. Having said that, I did predict Holland to win.
Spain didn't look like themselves. They got away from their tiki-taka football that has made them so successful. It looked like they were trying to feed Costa, who plays a different style with Atletico. And Casillas gifted them two goals. He has to be on the bench.
England will not get out of their group.
Had Silva converted with 40 minutes gone in the first half, Spain would have been up 2-0 and the match most likely would have been over. Having said that, I did predict Holland to win.
Spain didn't look like themselves. They got away from their tiki-taka football that has made them so successful. It looked like they were trying to feed Costa, who plays a different style with Atletico. And Casillas gifted them two goals. He has to be on the bench.
Looks like I'll have to repeat myself (as I often do round here): I'm not the one who started trolling this thread.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand now that I've dealt with the schoolkids.
That's a particularly bold and brave statement to make, especially when you know full well I'll come back here to take the mick out of you when England qualify from the group. So you'd better start praying now that it doesn't happen.
Every tournament has a Group of Death, and in this tournament it is the USA's group. Good luck trying to get out of a group that contains Portugal, Germany and Ghana.
Oh dear. Are Americans really incapable of checking things up first before posting? If you aren't sure, check first. Think before you speak. You and EagleSmack will make a really good couple.
That header by Manchester United striker Robin van Persie for Netherlands against Spain last night is the best goal of the tournament so far, but I think there'll be a lot more contenders for goal of the tournament as the month-long tournament progresses.
The Netherlands' manager, Louis van Gaal, is to become the new Manchester United manager after the World Cup and I think he wants to bring a few of the Netherlands players with him to United, including the defender Bruno Martins Indi, who played last night.
Robin Van Persie Amazing Goal - Spain vs Netherlands 1-5 2014 World Cup (13-06-2014) - YouTube
Here's one of my pointless but interesting World Cup stats: Last night's match between Spain and Netherlands was the fifth time that the two teams who contested the previous World Cup Final have met in a World Cup match. The defeat for Spain means that in all five of those matches the team who won the previous World Cup Final lost.
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Today's 2014 World Cup games:
Fernando the Hamster predicts who will win today's Group C match between Colombia and Greece:
Fernando the Hamster: Group C 15 June - Colombia Vs Greece - YouTube
2014 World Cup Betting: Uruguay vs Costa Rica:
2014 World Cup Betting: Uruguay vs. Costa Rica - YouTube
England vs Italy preview:
England v Italy World Cup preview | FATV Exclusive - YouTube
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20 million people - almost a third of the entire UK population - are expected to watch the England VS Italy match tonight, despite the fact it kicks off at 11pm UK time.
Pubs are expected to be open late, into the early hours, for the match.
A global audience of 3 billion - almost half of all humanity - is expected to watch the match, which is being played in the jungle city of Manaus.
Sales of widescreen TVs at Tesco have almost doubled in the run up to the match.
Fever pitch! As 20m get ready to watch England's World Cup opener and pubs open into early hours, police braced for a busy night
Thousands of extra officers deployed across country for 'mini New Year'
Pubs will open late for 11pm kick-off after day of perfect barbecue weather
Sales of widescreen TVs at Tesco almost doubled in run-up to the match
By Tom Kelly and Sean Poulter and Christian Gysin
14 June 2014
Daily Mail
It is the night that millions have been waiting for with excitement... and trepidation.
England’s footballers play their first game of the World Cup tonight in front of a global TV audience of three billion, 20million of them in the UK.
Perfect barbecue weather is forecast for much of the country ahead of the match in which Roy Hodgson’s boys will take on Italy in Brazil.
Gearing up: England fans preparing for the match yesterday outside the opera house in Manaus
Retailers are expecting a £1billion spending bonanza from sales of TVs, football shirts, bunting, flags, party food and drink.
But there are also fears that the tournament could lead to ugly scenes in some town centres thanks to a controversial decision to extend pub opening hours.
A third of those planning to watch the game in the UK are expected to be in a pub or bar, and police and paramedics are braced for a rise in alcohol-fuelled violence.
They point to a potentially toxic mix of warm weather and the fact that the Government has allowed pubs to open late to cater for the 11pm kick off. One leading medical figure, Dr Clifford Mann, said the decision ‘makes no sense’.
Thousands of extra police officers are being deployed around the country as forces put on extra patrols to clamp down on drunken thuggish behaviour.
St George: Paul Farrell from Skegness arrives at the airport in Manaus - and things are heating up back home too
Preparations: Police motorbikes have also lined the streets surrounding the Arena da Amazonia stadium in Manaus
The London Ambulance Service plans to run special ‘booze buses’ – which look similar to mini-vans – that can accommodate six drunks at a time. West Midlands Ambulance Service said it is treating tonight like a ‘mini New Year’.
Licensing laws are being relaxed during England’s World Cup matches after a personal intervention from the Prime Minister, so every pub and bar is free to open late without having to apply for a special licence.
Dr Mann, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, called it an unwelcome move which was likely to lead to violence and abusive behaviour.
Some of the England boys model their 2014 World Cup kit
PRIME MINISTER GETS IN ON THE ACT WITH FLAG OVER NUMBER 10
The flag of St George will fly over 10 Downing Street for England’s World Cup matches, in a show of support for Roy Hodgson’s team.
Although the gesture is well-intentioned, Steven Gerrard and company may not welcome the prime ministerial endorsement – for they could now be struck by the Curse of Cameron.
The PM, who visited the England team at their Staffordshire training base before they left for Brazil, has been blamed for jinxing Andy Murray, Tom Daley and a string of other sportsmen and women with good luck messages during his time in office.
In an article in the BMJ he said: ‘The consequences of alcohol abuse are seen daily in the country’s emergency departments and manifest themselves as injuries, as well as acute and chronic illnesses.
‘This temporary relaxation of the licensing laws... sets a precedent that those with vested interests can use to encourage the exception to become the norm.
‘Those vested interests... must not be allowed to peddle the notion that sporting events are best enjoyed with alcohol.’
Retailers, however, were hoping to do even better than the last World Cup in South Africa in 2010, not least because of greater consumer confidence in the improving economy. Sales of widescreen TVs at Tesco have almost doubled ahead of the event.
More than 5,000 diehard England fans have travelled to the steamy Amazonian city of Manaus for tonight’s game. They have been asked to pay between £300 and £500 a night for basic hotel rooms that would normally cost just £40.
Hundreds more stayed in Rio and gathered on Copacabana beach. England’s players have been training at Manaus’s 46,000 capacity Arena da Amazonia stadium in 80F heat and 84 per cent humidity during what is the Brazilian WINTER.
Incredibly last night there were still finishing touches being put to a stadium that should have been completed and tested more than a year ago.
Hodgson’s team are among the tournament’s underdogs. But their millions of fans back home will be praying they make it through the group to at least the quarter-finals of the competition England have not won since the glory days of 1966.
Can you guess which team the fans who live here support?
Two storeys, three lions: A house in Bristol bedecked with patriotic banners in preparation for the match
Banners on the balconies: Residents on an estate in Bermondsey, south east London, went for an ordered look
United nations: The Robin Hood pub in Jarrow, South Tyneside, was smothered in national flags
Waving the flag of St George: A house decorated with the red cross in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Spot the house: A blizzard of flags cover an entire home in Southampton thanks to resident Tony Baddams
Police braced as 20m get ready to watch England's World Cup opener | Mail Online
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Holland kicked reigning champs Spain's butt yesterday.. 5 -1. A route, really a humiliation.
Under the leadership of Louis van Gaal, Manchester United's new coach. And frankly he looked impressive on the side lines... with a gravitas that might have been lacking with David Moyes (although i still don't think he was given a fair chance).
Italy / England this afternoon. Go you Red and White, beat the Azzurri.
Under the leadership of Louis van Gaal, Manchester United's new coach. And frankly he looked impressive on the side lines... with a gravitas that might have been lacking with David Moyes (although i still don't think he was given a fair chance).
Italy / England this afternoon. Go you Red and White, beat the Azzurri.
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