Tottenham Hotspur Pitch

[Faithful1865]

PLEASE STOP NOW!!!  I came on here to join in a discussion abou Rugby League and its turned into a bloody geometry lesson. I had enough of those at school and don't need any more.

[Anita Bath]

8 hours ago, StandOffHalf said:

I just call it soccer to (gently) annoy people, and to up-end the global pecking order. It's not the only football code, haha...

No real offense meant to those that prefer ''football''.

Correct and I have no issue with other codes using the word, its others on here who seem to object to the round ball game using the term football.

Down under there are three codes that use the term 'footy' or football (Association, Rugby League and Australian Rules). They seem to survive without trying to dictate where it can and cannot be used. Strangely the Union crowd dont seem to refer to their games as footy but I might be wrong...it could therefore be 4 codes of footy.

If soccer came from Oxford University thats another reason for the rest of the world using the more accurate term football.

Probably couldnt get their tongues around the letter 'F' with all those plums in their gobs.

 

[Dunbar]

So, what we have learned from this thread.

1. A stadium not designed to host Rugby League will have to make some small compromises on the layout of the pitch to host a Rugby League game.

2. Some people get annoyed when you call (Association) Football Soccer.

You learn something new every day.

[Davo5]

6 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

So, what we have learned from this thread.

1. A stadium not designed to host Rugby League will have to make some small compromises on the layout of the pitch to host a Rugby League game.

2. Some people get annoyed when you call (Association) Football Soccer.

You learn something new every day.

3. There is a Canadian poster who really needs to get out more.

[RigbyLuger]

14 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

So, what we have learned from this thread.

1. A stadium not designed to host Rugby League will have to make some small compromises on the layout of the pitch to host a Rugby League game.

2. Some people get annoyed when you call (Association) Football Soccer.

You learn something new every day.

Wait until you find a fan of the Tricky Trees in London this weekend and refer to them as Notts Forest. Great fun.

[Spike]

@Big Picture grow up mate

[HawkMan]

47 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

So, what we have learned from this thread.

1. A stadium not designed to host Rugby League will have to make some small compromises on the layout of the pitch to host a Rugby League game.

2. Some people get annoyed when you call (Association) Football Soccer.

You learn something new every day.

We've also learned if a stadium is architecturally amazing, one of the world's best,  if it can't hold a RL game as good as say Craven Park then it's absolute pants and should never have been chosen and RL must never besmirch itself by going there ever again.

[JohnM]

51 minutes ago, Anita Bath said:

Correct and I have no issue with other codes using the word, its others on here who seem to object to the round ball game using the term football.

Down under there are three codes that use the term 'footy' or football (Association, Rugby League and Australian Rules). They seem to survive without trying to dictate where it can and cannot be used. Strangely the Union crowd dont seem to refer to their games as footy but I might be wrong...it could therefore be 4 codes of footy.

If soccer came from Oxford University thats another reason for the rest of the world using the more accurate term football.

Probably couldnt get their tongues around the letter 'F' with all those plums in their gobs.

 

misrepresentation and sheer invention on your part: "others on here who seem to object to the round ball game using the term football."

You can call it what you want. I have no objection.  We call it soccer.

[Davo5]

4 minutes ago, JohnM said:

misrepresentation and sheer invention on your part: "others on here who seem to object to the round ball game using the term football."

You can call it what you want. I have no objection.  We call it soccer.

Who is we exactly ?

[Stotty]

The English can call it football if they want. But I'm a Widnesian, and if I want to call football soccer, trousers pants, fans speccies, and egg n' chips chips n' egg I will do. *blows raspberry in general direction of the unenlightened*

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, RigbyLuger said:

Wait until you find a fan of the Tricky Trees in London this weekend and refer to them as Notts Forest. Great fun.

I made that mistake once.

It's not a mistake you tend to make twice.

[Anita Bath]

2 hours ago, Stotty said:

The English can call it football if they want. But I'm a Widnesian, and if I want to call football soccer, trousers pants, fans speccies, and egg n' chips chips n' egg I will do. *blows raspberry in general direction of the unenlightened*

Those chemical factories have a lot to answer for

[Mr Frisky]

4 hours ago, Davo5 said:

3. There is a Canadian poster who really needs to get out more.

To be fair if you lived in Canada this forum would be the highlight of your week.

Looking forward to the final and my first time in New WHL - the old stadium was one of the best football stadiums in the UK, so I'm expecting great things come Saturday- just hope the final its self is a great game as I've not seen a real classic CCF in years.