So you cant help me regarding my Soccer post??

I'll look out for the bike. I live at the Baseball end but cross the park to the c-train every morning. I also play that end in the 'soccer' goals with my son most weekends.
My team were United's opposition in one the best finals in recent memory (1990)

Resist what? Triumphalism?

So you live close to the Lake - nice.

Crystal Palace right?

Blue garage doors and a big spruce in front!

Not afraid to blow our own trumpet, we Mancs!

Apparently you're not much of a history buff either

Charles Wreford Brown, first refered "Association Football" as soccer in 1890 in Oxford England.

Soccer Origin
The word soccer is derived from an abbreviation of association as in - Association Football. In 1890 it was spelt variously as socca and socker. One day Charles Wreford-Brown was leaving his digs, dressed in sporting togs, when his friend enquired ' where are you off?' I'm off to play football' Charles said.

'Association or Rugger' the friend asked. ' Why Soccer of course' , said Charles Wreford-Brown as jogged off to the game.

Bear in mind that in this era upper class sportsman had a fad of adding ' er' to everything. Rugby became rugger and socca became soccer.


So when in Rome please behave like the romans, it does save the rest of us from being tarred with the same brush.

Thank you.

Thanks for the history lesson Grah: I thought everyone knew this, but obviously not?

Soccer is an English word not Canadian!

Blah Blah Blah yawn................yes I knew that, however it is called football, hence the Football Association, FIFA, UEFA, etc etc and not the Soccer Association, FISA, UESA.

I may live in Canada, but I am English and a Football fan and I will always refer to it as football as any real football fans do. Same as I wouldn`t say Fish & Fries, its Fish & Chips. Just because you move to a new country doesnt mean you forget where you come from and your heritage.

Amen to that (all of it)

But if you were looking for places to play and teams to play with I'm sure you wouldn't just look up "football." Being in Canada and all I'm sure you would have the nous to look up Soccer. Since that's how it's called in the Yellow Pages.

Of course you would, my point is that it maybe called soccer here and that petrol is gas the boot is the truck.........but we, as Brits, shouldn't forget what we call them, we just have to humour the locals when necessary

I see you've been here 11 whole months already. You don't have to forget what Brits call them. Just use appropriate terms for Canada.

Good luck if you decide to live in France. Even though it's "le football" there.

Your point being?

Fully agree and its what I have been saying............you use the appropriate terms when talking to the locals.

If I could speak fluent French then I would have moved there

I don't even speak Canadian properly yet, eh!

Most of 'em can't understand a British accent easily anyway, so call it what you like!!!

Just watch out for the Croatian team if you play in Calgary: I hear they can be dirty bastards. And they call it football too!