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For all Football fans here-Select the greatest ever 5 club teams:

Vote for the best 5 Football club teams of all time:


  • Total voters
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BoyBrumby

Englishman
Craig said:
What about NFL?

They certainly call it 'football' in the States.
& they call pavements "sidewalks", curtains "drapes", taps "faucets" & George W Bush "president". Doesn't make them right.
 

Adamc

Cricketer Of The Year
GeraintIsMyHero said:
Association Fotball is obviously football in the truest sense because it's played predominantly with feet. But technically Rugby Union, Rugby League, American Football, Gaelic Football, Aussie Rules, and even that game the Aussie WC squad played all class as football

8-)
From wikipedia (hence of uncertain veracity):
While it is widely believed that the word football, or "foot ball", originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball. (See football (word) for more details.)
 

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