What do you define as "Football"

44leto wrote: »

Football is game with a cultural local meaning, professional soccer is a game played with a football by 2 opposing bunches of millionaires representing a PLC.

Oh of course, because the only football is played in the premier league etc.!!!

If you want cultural local meaning come and watch an Oldham Athletic game along with me and 3000 others who have followed their team through thick and thin(mostly thin) for decades.

Football is association football. The rest are Just little localised games.

summerskin wrote: »

Oh of course, because the only football is played in the premier league etc.!!!

If you want cultural local meaning come and watch an Oldham Athletic game along with me and 3000 others who have followed their team through thick and thin(mostly thin) for decades.

Football is association football. The rest are Just little localised games.

I agree, there a millions and million of kids worldwide playing soccer in local leagues or just kick abouts, it is the world game.

It is just something is lost in the premierships of the world, I don't think these clubs represent their fan base anymore. I am a liverpool head, but when I followed them, passionately, there was the Liverpool Irish tradition, you had Irish players and players from Liverpool. There was a connection.

Although Liverpool is fooked and will soon be on par with Oldham athletic unless someone invests in them big-time, it has still lost something. The huge wages, the sponsorship deals, the pay per view, the ticket prices, I think now there is now 1 player on the team who is from Liverpool. Its a money racket, with little heart.

I no longer feel a connection, its as I said one bunch of playboy millionaires representing a PLC VERSUS another bunch of playboy millionaires representing another PLC.

I'm a Dublin man now, I always was a big GAA fan, but more so now. I even go to the hurling matches now.

Seanchai wrote: »

summerskin wrote: »

Spoken like somebody from England who has the misfortune to be stuck among the natives of another country who don't share his British nationalistic views. First it was the Irish language, now you're hostile to Irish sporting culture. Why bother even moving here if you can't stand anything about us that does not derive from England?

Read post 68 in this thread, I am Irish but like all us Irish we have British cultural connections, like it or lump it, but there is no getting away from it, as I type this in English knowing you will understand. I am just one of those is not nationalistic, I am proud of that, I have the view people are people and history is history. Its now that counts.

Ghost Buster wrote: »

...and soccer = head/chest/knee/foot ball?;)

And diving and crying like a girl.

Seanchai wrote: »

:rolleyes:


Let's reply in the same retarded manner:

1) You're a West Brit, I take it?

2) I'm a "Shinner" if you mean the post-Rising British label put on all those who want an end to British rule. Although that definition, as much as you evidently dislike it, makes the vast majority of Irish people "Shinners". I suspect your historical awareness is not that nuanced, however.

3) Anyday of any week, I'd rather be a "Shinner" than a West Brit. Any day. That includes Provos, Stickies, Commies and all other types of "Shinners" since 1916.

But does it have to be very retarded.