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Football??? Newcastle 3-2 Sunderland

By Marc • Oct 23rd, 2005 • Category: Sports, the Weirdo

I sometimes forget that I have a news feed coming in from BBC news. Sometimes it really is a cause for confusion. But I wish someone would explain to the British that the name if this game is actually soccer. Football is played with a ball that isn’t round…

Check out the story that made my Sunday night get all weird (OK…I guess it was the “All your base rhapsody” thing that really made it weird):
BBC SPORT | Football | Premiership | Newcastle 3-2 Sunderland

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4 Responses »

  1. Mark R. on October 23rd, 2005 at 8:46 pm:

    I do hope that was sarcasm. Association football has been around a lot longer than American football or Canadian football. It’s also a lot more entertaining than watching 22 grown men run into each other.

    From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

    Main Entry: soc·cer
    Pronunciation: ’sä-k&r
    Function: noun
    Etymology: by shortening & alteration from association football
    : a game played on a field between two teams of 11 players each with the object to propel a round ball into the opponent’s goal by kicking or by hitting it with any part of the body except the hands and arms — called also association football

    (Emphasis mine)

  2. Marc on October 23rd, 2005 at 8:59 pm:

    You ain’t one o’ them fancy talkin’ folks. What’s a matter with you?

    But seriously, if a guy from Scotland suddenly links to my website right after that gets posted without threatening to make me eat haggis, you must have missed it was a joke…

  3. Mark R. on October 23rd, 2005 at 9:52 pm:

    You ain’t one o’ them fancy talkin’ folks. What’s a matter with you?

    Ya mean “Smatter chew?”

  4. Marc on October 24th, 2005 at 7:42 am:

    Ya mean “Smatter chew?”

    No, I’m from west Tennessee, not north Mississippi….

    :p

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