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| Thread ID: 36986 | 2003-08-25 08:32:00 | OT: Rugby World Cup Squad... | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 170425 | 2003-08-25 14:42:00 | >So why is it refered to as 'footie' don't forget there was 100 years where we were not in touch with england and New Zealand developed its own language, slang and acsent. Between 1800-1930 there were no telephones or intenational TV >fingers in eyes DONT' CLICK if you are squeamish www.attrition.org personaly i don't understand soccer with all there "hollywoods" when they get tapped on the foot, i recon if you pull a hollywood you should be taken off the field, because you know there is nothing wrong with them |
sc0ut (2899) | ||
| 170426 | 2003-08-26 23:25:00 | > So why is it refered to as 'footie', when the object > of the game seems to be to a combination of throwing > oneself at the ground as often as possible and/or > everyone scrapping on the ground with fingers in eyes > and other nasty places ?:| > > Or is it because another object of the game seems to > be scraping ones booted foot down the face of someone > who has already thrown himself on the ground, on the > blind side of the ref, but in full view of the camera > ? :) Are you saying that English footie is a much "cleaner" game? What about the increasing use of the boot for deliberate dirty shin kicks and other violence that goes these days? They must curse those nearby cameras...... |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 170427 | 2003-08-27 02:51:00 | I dont think I have mentioned English footie (soccer) at all except for talking about a round ball, and lots of games have a round ball :) It's amazing how peoples minds can presume to interpret what is in anothers head :) :) But now soccer has been raised, when I was at school, we had real leather boots that came up above the ankles, leather studs, thick woollen football (ie soccer) socks, and long baggy shorts that came down to the knees :D Pro football players in those days didnt throw wobblies pretending they had been hurt either, I think that came in later on when boots shrank to 'shoes'. We had 'gentleman' players like (Sir) Stanley Matthews who was never sent off the field throughout his long and distinguished career from 1934 to 1960 something. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 170428 | 2003-08-27 03:01:00 | I forgot, what Steve Askew said to me this morning is quite right. The big difference between English soccer and New Zealand Rugby of both League and Union flavours, is that here all the fighting takes place on the field, whereas in the UK it all takes place on the terraces. :) |
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