Urawa Reds V Manchester United, 17th July, 2007

Soccer is an English term first used in Oxford University in the late 1880's.....it is not an American version of football at all!!!

The Americans, Austrlalians and others use it to differentiate fotball from their local versions.........but it is a British term!

Paddy is OK!

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt Mujac, if they didn't call their own sports, which mainly involve throwing, catching and running with ball in hand, 'football' :wenger:
 
I'd give them the benefit of the doubt Mujac, if they didn't call their own sports, which mainly involve throwing, catching and running with ball in hand, 'football' :wenger:

American Football has its roots in Rugby Football, it has evolved from Rugby Football, and kept the Football part of the name.