...
>America is the best at football, but their football is American Football, in Ireland football is GAA, in OZ its Australian rules, UK its soccer, New Zealand its Rugby, football means very different things in different countries
>Slán
>~M

Sorry, Mark, but in England it's FOOTBALL or "footy". If you asked anyone for a game of soccer they'd assume you'd never played it. :-)

A SA woman I know keeps referring to a "soccer ball". As soccer is a corruption of "associated football" trhat kmeans she refers to an "associated football-ball"

Terry