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What do you define as "Football"

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  • #122
    EarlERizer
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    That game they used to play in the UK before the 'Premier League' started.


  • #123
    stovelid
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    Football is soccer, not bogball.


  • #124
    keith16
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Football is soccer, not bogball.

    What's bogball?


  • #125
    44leto
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    keith16 wrote: »
    What's bogball?

    Its bog snorkeling with the same rules as water polo, its good.


  • #126
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    44leto wrote: »
    Its bog snorkeling with the same rules as water polo, its good.
    Association Bog Snorkeling is still the bestest, it's called snorker!


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  • #127
    gcgirl
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    GAA
    The other I call soccerball


  • #128
    Marcusm
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    Cereal Rapist wrote: »
    Depends where you live IMO.


    Ireland - Football = GAA

    Rest of the world - Football = Soccer

    Apart of course for the USA, Australia (AFL some places, NRL others and Union in the sensible ones) and New Zealand (union).


  • #129
    TanG411
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    Soccer to me.

    I call GAA 'Gah'.


  • #130
    keith16
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Association Bog Snorkeling is still the bestest, it's called snorker!

    Cool!


  • #131
    mattjack
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    Morricone wrote: »
    Bolloxs. If it is so boring then why do tens of millions attend matches every week and hundreds of millions watch on television.



    I think you'll find that you are in fact the ignorant one.




    Bolloxs. You clearly haven't a clue about the game of football. This myth is absolute ****e of the highest order. What about Keith Earls diving yesterday. Is Rugby suddenly a game where they take every opportunity to dive?



    I call you a clown.



    You don't think football is a game with cultural meaning? Maybe explain that to the Basques and the Catalans. While you're at it, tell the Iraqi team that won the Asian Cup in 2007 that it wasn't a cultural thing. Sure their dedications to the Iraqi people and the dead Iraqi's wasn't cultural. You and you're kind really haven't a fúcking notion, not a fúcking clue.



    Again this is pure and utter grade A bollocks. This happens far, far less than the popular myth. But don't let things such as facts get in the way of a good ignorant display of your bolloxsology.

    I always thought the word was BOLLIX .


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  • #132
    44leto
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    Only in Oirland could a subject like this go 9+pages.

    I propose we have a compromise rules series between The all Ireland champions versus the League of Ireland champions and settle it on a field of glory in the RDS.


  • #133
    Duckworth_Luas
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    44leto wrote: »
    Only in Oirland could a subject like this go 9+pages.

    I propose we have a compromise rules series between The all Ireland champions versus the League of Ireland champions and settle it on a field of glory in the RDS.
    In 1995 Dublin won the All-Ireland football championship and Dundalk won the LoI cup thing. They had a charity match of soccerball to see who was best. The GAA lads won 4-0:eek:


  • #134
    44leto
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    In 1995 Dublin won the All-Ireland football championship and Dundalk won the LoI cup thing. They had a charity match of soccerball to see who was best. The GAA lads won 4-0:eek:

    :eek::eek: I just hope it wasn't played in croker:eek::eek:


  • #135
    Duckworth_Luas
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    44leto wrote: »
    :eek::eek: I just hope it wasn't played in croker:eek::eek:
    Soccer, or tinkerball as my grandmother used to call it, will never be played in Croke Park!


  • #136
    Red21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Red21


    Soccer = soccer, saying football= soccer only adds validity to this and if soccer=soccer then the word football when said by an irish person can only mean gaelic football


  • #137
    ohyesthefinest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭ohyesthefinest


    Gaelic Football is my football as opposed to soccer.


  • #138
    The Golden Miller
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    football is "soccer". anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. even in ireland when theres a group of lads and they go for a "game of football", ive yet to come across anyone going for a game of gaelic football


  • #139
    LordSutch
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    The Golden Miller wrote: »
    football is "soccer". anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. even in ireland when theres a group of lads and they go for a "game of football", ive yet to come across anyone going for a game of gaelic football

    I am beginning to get the impression that's a regional thing. see my post#96 for example, soccer didn't even exist in our south dublin language.
    The only time we ever heard footie being called 'soccer' would have been on some American TV show of the time.


  • #140
    guitarzero
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    Depends who your talking to or where you are on the map.


  • #141
    K-9
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    The Golden Miller wrote: »
    football is "soccer". anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. even in ireland when theres a group of lads and they go for a "game of football", ive yet to come across anyone going for a game of gaelic football

    Exactly, What are they supposed to say, going home for a game of Gaelic Athletic Association Football?

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  • #142
    Zebra3
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    K-9 wrote: »
    Football in Ireland is Gaelic, simple as.

    Soccer is well, Soccer.

    So you support Liverpool Soccer Club? :confused:
    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Soccer, or tinkerball as my grandmother used to call it, will never be played in Croke Park!

    It's not 2006 any more. :rolleyes:

    Bogball can never compete with this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1jrCnm6_c


  • #143
    K-9
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    Zebra3 wrote: »
    So you support Liverpool Soccer Club? :confused:

    Your confused, why, following 2 football sports is hardly a rare phenomenon in Ireland?

    I explained my reasoning earlier today. The only football club or national school team in my area was a Gaelic football team, soccer didn't exist on an organised local level. A common thing on the Western seaboard and many other parts of Ireland.

    This was before Sky TV now!

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  • #144
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,273 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    K-9 wrote: »
    Your confused, why, following 2 football sports is hardly a rare phenomenon in Ireland?

    I explained my reasoning earlier today. The only football club or national school team in my area was a Gaelic football team, soccer didn't exist on an organised local level. A common thing on the Western seaboard and many other parts of Ireland.

    This was before Sky TV now!

    You never answered my question.


  • #145
    K-9
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    Zebra3 wrote: »
    You never answered my question.

    I follow my old local football club and my existing one, GAA clubs, the Donegal football team.

    Liverpool is the soccer team I follow.

    I did answer it, very similar to this reply.

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  • #146
    Nodin
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Football is soccer, not bogball.
    zebra3 wrote:
    Bogball can never compete with this..


    One of the more ignorant expressions thats used around here.


  • #147
    CiaranC
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    Nodin wrote: »
    One of the more ignorant expressions thats used around here.

    I prefer "bog wrestling" myself. A low skilled, farcical game followed by a cadre of cultural fascists, kiddy fiddling papists and clubhouse-dwelling, cider-swilling, premiership-watching hypocrites. The "games" themselves seem to be secondary to bating the ****e out of the opposition players, fans and officials, kidnapping referees, tax dodging, covering up child abuse scandals and glassing/digging up football pitches.

    Someone get on to the GAH department of propaganda, this poll is showing up the truth of which sport is really percieved as "football" by all of us who dont qualify as Irish by the rules of the almighty association :P


  • #148
    K-9
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    CiaranC wrote: »

    Someone get on to the GAH department of propaganda, this poll is showing up the truth of which sport is really percieved as "football" by all of us who dont qualify as Irish by the rules of the almighty association :P

    I see the LoI propaganda department got hold of it.

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  • #149
    CiaranC
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    And its Liv-er-pool
    Liverpool SC
    By far the greatest soccer team
    The world has ever seen


  • #150
    44leto
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    CiaranC wrote: »
    And its Liv-er-pool
    Liverpool SC
    By far the greatest soccer team
    The world has ever seen

    I whole heartingly agree, but not now:( they are dying a slow financial death.


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  • #151
    K-9
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    CiaranC wrote: »
    And its Liv-er-pool
    Liverpool SC
    By far the greatest soccer team
    The world has ever seen

    Exactly.

    Football is only football if its a LoI team.

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