What do you define as "Football"

losthorizon · 11-03-2012 12:33AM

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 · 11-03-2012 12:35AM

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 · 11-03-2012 12:35AM

gaelic football - should be renamed.. hand-football

because you use your hand and foot

im invisible · 11-03-2012 12:38AM

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 · 11-03-2012 12:39AM

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 · 11-03-2012 12:40AM

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

fryup · 11-03-2012 12:42AM

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 · 11-03-2012 12:48AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

That game Wayne Rooney and David Beckham play

NEXT!!!!!!!

Ah, Kicky Falldowny Ball!

Novella · 11-03-2012 12:48AM

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

Zebra3 · 11-03-2012 12:51AM

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 · 11-03-2012 12:55AM

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 · 11-03-2012 02:01AM

robby^5 wrote: »

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

What shall we call Canadian Football then?

MungBean · 11-03-2012 02:07AM

Soccer, GAA, Aussie rules, American Football, Rugby

All football.

ejmaztec · 11-03-2012 02:10AM

One word to cover all the variations =

Boring

don ramo · 11-03-2012 02:31AM

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 · 11-03-2012 02:31AM

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 · 11-03-2012 02:38AM

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 · 11-03-2012 02:42AM

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 · 11-03-2012 03:16AM

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 · 11-03-2012 03:18AM

is it played by pansies? then its soccer.

St.Spodo · 11-03-2012 03:22AM

I've never once called anything that isn't Association Football ''football''.

K-9 · 11-03-2012 03:23AM

Football in Ireland is Gaelic, simple as.

Soccer is well, Soccer.

monkeysnapper · 11-03-2012 03:32AM

GLaDOS · 11-03-2012 05:04AM

Never heard anyone use football to describe Rugby before.

MungBean · 11-03-2012 05:09AM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Never heard anyone use football to describe Rugby before.

IRFU = Irish Rugby Football Union.

You often hear players called good footballers when discussing their kicking game too.

entropi · 11-03-2012 05:18AM

The GAA have football. There are sports from other countries with their own versions (soccer in England, American football/Gridiron in America, Aussie Rules football in Australia). I just call rugby by that name alone, rugby.

I know some that will call rugby, hand-egg though.

DannyKing · 11-03-2012 05:48AM

i call it gay

Sindri · 11-03-2012 05:53AM

Master of Nothing wrote: »

The GAA have football. There are sports from other countries with their own versions (soccer in England, American football/Gridiron in America, Aussie Rules football in Australia). I just call rugby by that name alone, rugby.

I know some that will call rugby, hand-egg though.

I call rugby egg ball, hurling stick ball and football soccerball.

irishmover · 11-03-2012 06:01AM

grenache · 11-03-2012 06:03AM

Where I reside, "football" most definitely refers to Gaelic football. And then you have soccer.

I see nothing wrong with calling the game soccer, which of course is only short for 'association football' anyway.

What do you define as "Football"

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