Football Thre... Errm... Soccer Thread

LOL, i dont know if this is the right time for this but anyway..

Liverpool team pic after peter crouch joined..

 

LOL. Is that their new signing on the far left. It's always good seeing Man Utd get beaten. Looks like Chelsea will cruise past Colchester 2moro.

 

On behalf of all the Americans (maybe Canadians, too):

this is a footballthis is a soccer ball

 

Yeah Smith is gonna be out for a while. He'll certainly miss the world cup. Also doesn't help when John Arne Riise smacks a thumping shot at ya.

 

LOL, I hear ya Ashroy, Philadelphia, Pa.

 

What percentage of the world calls it football?

 

What matters is what it's called wherever you live, what it's called outside of it and it's percentages, who cares.

 

Touchy Touchy, like I said before, who cares.

 

@Ashroy

Football, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, Romanian fotbal) and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. Similarly, the Russian word is futbol (Футбо&#1083 and the Turkish word is futbol.

In Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. This also applies to Finnish (jalkapallo), Greek podosfero (ποδόσφαιρ&#959, Spanish: (balompié, but this form is quite unusual), Arabic (kurat al qadam) and Hebrew (kaduregel). In Polish both ways (futbol and piłka nożna) are used. The official names in Hungarian are futball and labdarúgás (meaning ball-kicking) but foci is used in the common langaugage.

In Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick. This is due to the game's resemblance to Calcio Fiorentino, a 17th century ceremonial Florentine court ritual, that has now been revived under the name il calcio storico (historical kick or kickball in costume).

In Japan, use of the term sakkā (サッカ&#12540 is more common than that of the term futtobōru (フットボー&#12523, although the latter term would seem to be gaining popularity.

In Chinese, the term 足球 (Hanyu Pinyin: zúqiú, Cantonese: juk kau) is used. The term, a calque, literally means football (足=foot, 球=ball), and is always associated with association football. No other sport known as football (in English) shares this name. Rugby is known as 橄榄球 (olive ball).

In Thai, the word football (ฟุตปอ&#3621 is used.



We invented the word, we invented the language, we invented the game! So stop calling rugby football! Rugby is rugby, football is football... Ok? Now if you want to talk about rugby, you're in the wrong thread. We talk about football here. The REAL football. So stop trying to hijack this thread with your argument attempts...

Rules:

Anyway,
Alan Smith broke his leg... That season/World Cup/maybe half of next season gone... It's a shame tough, i thought he was doing a fairly good game... Well, that just shows how bad Man U are at the moment... LOL

 

Chelsea 8 - 0 Colchester United

THat's what todays scoreline will be. Mourinho will put out a full strength team to humilate them.

 

Define full strenght at Chelsea... LOL
I reckon 4-0.

 

Cech
Del Horno
Gallas
Terry
Carvalho
Robben
Makelele
Lampard
Essien
Drogba
Gudjohsen

He'll use Essien today because he's banned for both Barca games. Crespo, SWP and Cole will be the 3 subs to come on.

 

I'll hold you to that line up... LOL
Still, i reckon they'll take it easy, Mourinho has to rest some players for Barca. I don't believe Colchester will keep 'em out for too long, so after a couple of goals ahead, he'll get some main players out to rest/give other less used players a chance...
Still, i don't really know how the moral is after last week's 'game of the season'... If today's game is bound to be easy, the CL game surely isn't!

 

Line up for Barca game:

Cech
Del Horno
Gallas
Terry
Carvalho
Duff
Makelele
Lampard
Cole
Drogba
Crespo

Terry, Makelele and Lampard are clearly Chelsea's 3 best players. He'll base todays team around them.

 

is makelele defintaley fit for the barca game? Chelsea need him, he was the main course why the lost to Middlesborough. He is there power house, but im still backing Chelsea, they have too many class players with good experience to take on a Barca team (who arent bad at all, but without ronaldhionio and etto etc. jus seem ordinary).

 

Celtic scored 8 today, new SPL record. Thought worth a mention on the footy thread.

Keano was top notch again i bet Man-u regret letting him go now, especially with Smith getting crocked yesterday.

Hail Hail

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