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In Soccer, Even the Referees are Pansies

post #1 of 18
9/23/11 at 3:31pm
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e1c_1316722821
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post #2 of 18
9/23/11 at 4:05pm
Actually, that probably hurt. It's a roll of that paper they put in cash registers or old calculators. Much denser, and it might have been thrown from pretty high up.


But gay ref is still gay.
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post #3 of 18
9/28/11 at 5:29pm
Not all footballers are pansies.

I give you Terry Butcher, ex-England international, and one tough bastard.


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post #4 of 18
9/28/11 at 8:10pm
^

Looks like Brock Samson after disposing of dozens of the Monarch's henchmen.
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post #5 of 18
10/2/11 at 3:27am
Soccer? What's that?
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post #6 of 18
10/3/11 at 10:57pm
^ oh no you didn't...

that's a register roll of paper, weights about 2 oz., it's like a freaking small book, dense and heavy.

those morons in the BBC don't know what the f...ck they are talking about...

I think futbol (who the hell calls it soccer anyway) referees have one of the toughest jobs around, particularly in Argentina where the last Copa America was played.
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post #7 of 18
10/4/11 at 4:46am
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Originally Posted by anginaprinzmetal View Post

^ oh no you didn't...
that's a register roll of paper, weights about 2 oz., it's like a freaking small book, dense and heavy.
those morons in the BBC don't know what the f...ck they are talking about...
I think futbol (who the hell calls it soccer anyway) referees have one of the toughest jobs around, particularly in Argentina where the last Copa America was played.

laugh.gif Says the guy who calls it "futbol".
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post #8 of 18
10/4/11 at 6:28am
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laugh.gif Says the guy who calls it "futbol".

and of course you call it soccer... enough said crackup[1].gif
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post #9 of 18
10/4/11 at 9:22am
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and of course you call it soccer... enough said crackup[1].gif

The game was originally called "soccer. "Football" was what the lower-classes came up with to mock it.

laugh.gif Think about it. You, a Spanish speaker, are insisting it should be called "futbol", which means nothing in Spanish, it's just the English word "football" said with a latin accent. foo.gif
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post #10 of 18
10/4/11 at 8:46pm
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The game was originally called "soccer. "Football" was what the lower-classes came up with to mock it.
laugh.gif Think about it. You, a Spanish speaker, are insisting it should be called "futbol", which means nothing in Spanish, it's just the English word "football" said with a latin accent. foo.gif

did you see the quotations? ... they're there for a reason... I know how to spell football and also know that in Spanish it's spelled futbol or ballonpie (nobody calls it this way though). Just like some words get anglicized, there are words which get "castellanizadas". For the record there is no such thing as Spanish language, it's castellano.

oh and may be, just may be I am bilingual... just saying...
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post #11 of 18
10/4/11 at 9:25pm
In China we call it 足球/Zúqiú, which literally means 'football'. Non of this 'soccer' nonsense here.
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post #12 of 18
10/5/11 at 6:18am
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did you see the quotations? ... they're there for a reason... I know how to spell football and also know that in Spanish it's spelled futbol or ballonpie (nobody calls it this way though). Just like some words get anglicized, there are words which get "castellanizadas". For the record there is no such thing as Spanish language, it's castellano.
oh and may be, just may be I am bilingual... just saying...

What does "ballonpie" translate to?
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post #13 of 18
10/5/11 at 6:24am
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The game was originally called "soccer. "Football" was what the lower-classes came up with to mock it.

Wait, really? I had no idea.
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post #14 of 18
10/5/11 at 6:47am
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Wait, really? I had no idea.

Yep. Around 1880 is when football first began to refer specifically to soccer. Before then it was called "soccer" or "association football" (rugby was called "rugby football"). By the time the word usage football=soccer began to spread outside of England (the 1920's), several countries (the US, Australia, Ireland, and Canada) were already using "football" to describe something else. Canada and Ireland eventually conformed, but the US and Australia retained "soccer" because the sports known to them as "football" were already well-established.

EDIT: Actually, when I expanded my research, I found a lot of conflicting information. Apparently, the term "association football" predates "soccer". However, if you'd said just "football" at the time the word "soccer" was coined, you could've been referring to any of a half-dozen or so games, such as "rugby football". "Soccer" as the name for association football predates by about twenty years the use of just "football" to describe the sport of soccer,
Edited by FLMountainMan - 10/5/11 at 6:59am
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post #15 of 18
10/5/11 at 6:50am
It always beats be when folks who claim to not "care" about soccer always have to let the world know that "yeah, I don't care about soccer.. blah-blah-blah". I mean, I don't care about cricket, and you wouldn't see me starting a thread in a style forum about how i don't care about cricket. To think about it, this is actually the very first time I have ever written the word "cricket" in relation to the game, not the insect.

if u don't like soccer, how about worrying/thinking/talking about the game that u actually like?

Thanks.
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