What do you define as "Football"

Downlinz

Your primary definition of it.

af_thefragile

a game that involves a foot and a ball

MrStuffins

That game Wayne Rooney and David Beckham play


NEXT!!!!!!!

Teyla Emmagan

Something boring that men go on and on and on and on about.

MrStuffins

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Something boring that men go on and on and on and on about.

That's not football, that's women you're thinking of!

Xavi6

Football is 'soccer'.

The others are Gah/Farmball and American Football.

Teyla Emmagan

MrStuffins wrote: »

That's not football, that's women you're thinking of!

Do men go on and on and on about women? News to me!! :pac:

Nodin

MrStuffins wrote: »

That's not football, that's women you're thinking of!

Women aren't boring.













They're way too annoying and evil to ever be boring.

Remmy

Football is soccer, end of discussion. Speaking of, did you see that ludicrous display last night?

MrStuffins

Remmy wrote: »

Football is soccer, end of discussion. Speaking of, did you see that ludicrous display last night?

What was Wenger thinking bringing Walcott on that early?

Kidchameleon

Grown men kicking a pigs belly around a field

Random

is this because kidney described rugby as football earlier in his post match interview?

Mr. Manager

Depends where you live IMO.


Ireland - Football = GAA

Rest of the world - Football = Soccer

Remmy

MrStuffins wrote: »

What was Wenger thinking bringing Walcott on that early?

Thing about Arsenal is that they're always throwing Walcott in. :rolleyes:

Downlinz

Random wrote: »

is this because kidney described rugby as football earlier in his post match interview?

Well no he does that in every interview.

MrStuffins

Remmy wrote: »

Thing about Arsenal is that they're always throwing Walcott in. :rolleyes:

Have they tried bringing him off and back on again?

im invisible

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Depends where you live IMO.


Ireland - Football = GAA

Rest of the world - Football = Soccer

apart from america

and austrailia

and...

downwithpeace

Ball to Foot - Foot to Ball = Football.

Kicking between the legs excluded.

Cookie_Monster

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Rest of the world - Football = Soccer

Aus + NZ - football = rugby
USA - football = American Football

Captain Slow IRL

Sh*te that demands an instant change of channel, or just plain ignorance through any other source!

Xavi6

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Aus + NZ - football = rugby
USA - football = American Football

Not true. Only in NSW and Queensland, everywhere else football is Aussie Rules.

Bad Panda

Football is...football! The one that IS played with you're fcuking feet!

fryup

Its FOOTball....you kick the ball with your foot

the governing body is FIFA - International Federation of Association Football

as for american football give me a break :rolleyes: when do they ever kick the ball? only time is when they kick it over the bar after a touchdown

Immaculate Pasta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VAMQF8vnNo

sock puppet

fryup wrote: »

Its FOOTball....you kick the ball with your foot

the governing body is FIFA - International Federation of Association Football

as for american football give me a break :rolleyes: when do they ever kick the ball? only time is when they kick it over the bar after a touchdown

Last time I checked every football code was played on foot.

About 22 sissy men prancing after a ball, taking every opportunity to dive.

fryup

sock puppet wrote: »

Last time I checked every football code was played on foot.

so? but nearly all sports are played on foot...do we call them all football:rolleyes:

losthorizon

Its the Football Association of Ireland

Every other country in the world virtually calls it football except for the USA and Boards.ie for some reason (but most of the posters on the "soccer forum don't actually go to soccer gamers ironically)

Its the Gaelic Athletic Association ie Gaelic Football

Rugby - Rugby

American Football - Who cares

sock puppet

fryup wrote: »

so? but nearly all sports are played on foot...do we call them all football:rolleyes:

Well yes, every sport that's played on foot and involves some form of kicking at a goal is called football.

robby^5

Football is soccer and American Football should be referred to as Gridiron.

John Doe1

Cricket :cool:

losthorizon

sock puppet wrote: »

Well yes, every sport that's played on foot and involves some form of kicking at a goal is called football.

Except for kickboxing

keith16

fryup wrote: »

Its FOOTball....you kick the ball with your foot

the governing body is FIFA - International Federation of Association Football

as for american football give me a break :rolleyes: when do they ever kick the ball? only time is when they kick it over the bar after a touchdown

You should have also underlined the word 'association'...F.A.= Football Association. RFU = Rugby Football Union.

Both soccer and rugby can accurately be described as football.

fryup

gaelic football - should be renamed.. hand-football

because you use your hand and foot

im invisible

before the split between rugby and soccer, what was that version of football like?
as far as i know you could catch the ball, but not carry it...

theteal

fryup wrote: »

gaelic football - should be renamed.. hand-football

because you use your hand and foot

so soccer should be renamed head-shoulder-chest-thigh-knee-balls-football?

:pac:

HalloweenJack

The one which involves most contact of the feet with the ball, hence why it's called 'foot-ball'.

fryup

theteal wrote: »

so soccer should be renamed head-shoulder-chest-thigh-knee-balls-football?

:pac:

no just football, cause 95% of the time the foot is used

whereas in gaelic its 50% hand 50% foot

CoDy1

MrStuffins wrote: »

That game Wayne Rooney and David Beckham play


NEXT!!!!!!!

Ah, Kicky Falldowny Ball!

Novella

To me, football means GAA football and soccer is soccer.

Zebra3

Football is football.

Other sports that try to claim the title are bogball, egg-chasing, and those weird sports in North America and Australia. Then there's the inbred one the bogballers and the Aussies use as a front to knock the shyte out of each other.

pache

Remmy wrote: »

Football is soccer, end of discussion. Speaking of, did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Football is socer.... no its otn u doodle...

rab!dmonkey

robby^5 wrote: »

Football is soccer and American Football should be referred to as Gridiron.

What shall we call Canadian Football then?

MungBean

Soccer, GAA, Aussie rules, American Football, Rugby

All football.

ejmaztec

One word to cover all the variations =

Boring

don ramo

football is a game where the ball is only allowed be passed from one player to another player with certain confines of a designated area of the field by foot*, if you pick the ball up or handle it anywhere on the field then its not ****ing football cause you ****ing handled the bloody ball,


*said confines would obviously exclude the goalkeepers box where only the keeper may hamdle the ball in the box and throwing the ball in from outside the perimiter of the pitch,

quickbeam

A word to describe many different varieties of ball games.

I know it annoys people when the term soccer is used instead of football - thought of as some sort of Americanism, but I always use it if that's what I mean, just as I'd talk about rugby, Gaelic, American, Austrialian, etc.

crfcaio

Football is the fairest sport in the world, where you don't need much to play - just a bunch of socks make it.
You can play in your room, you can play in the street with your friends (and risk being hit by a car or losing the "ball), etc.
It's also that one sport that we Brazilians rule (:

I HATE how here in America people call football "soccer" and their football "football".
I mean, come on, they only touch the ball with their feet in the fúcking game twice!

ascanbe

I use the word the football to refer to 'Gaelic Football' as i happen to be from Ireland and happen to have an interest in it.
I use the word 'Soccer', which i also am interested in, to refer to the sport that is often referred to by that name in much of the world and is also often referred to as 'football'.
'Soccer' is a commonly accepted name for this sport in much of the world and i've no idea why anyone would have any problem with it being referred to by this name.

Seanchai

fryup wrote: »

the governing body is FIFA - International Federation of Association Football

losthorizon wrote: »

Its the Football Association of Ireland

Stupid posts, on so many levels. Rugby football, Gaelic football, American football and, wait for this, Association football. Shortened to soccer.

Perhaps you two would like to visit the Wikipedia page on Football, where a lot of incredibly angry British soccer heads have been upset for some years now that there are more Americans on Wikipedia than Brits and therefore soccer cannot claim a monopoly on the word 'football'. This, they feel, is an affront to their English/British nationality.

Typical that some Paddies (working class Dubs?), entirely through the influence of British sports television, have now joined the British nationalists by denying all other codes but soccer a right to the name "football" and designating football as it has been traditionally defined in Ireland as "bogball". :rolleyes:

krudler

is it played by pansies? then its soccer.