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Originally Posted by Bang A Drum
Well I have never heard anyone in my life call it football except in books and online...... AND YES there are two names, soccer and football. If you called it soccer no one would be confused.
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No there is one correct name and another name that America made up for it. If I and everyone over here in the UK decided to call baseball something else like batball (for example), it wouldn't suddenly mean there are two official names for the same thing.
I absolutely hate having to repeat myself in various threads when this comes up but if you (or America) came up with an original name for a sport invented after 'football', there wouldn't be any confusion. Why should we all accept the americanism that is 'soccer'? It makes no sense.
This is going well off topic though so I'm not gonna rant any more about it. Accept the differences and move on.
