>>>can't bring myself round to calling it "football"
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>>Well, if you don't want to call it "football", you can call it "Real Football".
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>There is a game called "real tennis", that Henry VIII used to play. The court is surrounded by a covered spectators' area, with sloping roofs, so the ball never goes "out" but rolls back into the court. You can use the roofs as part of your shot. Sort of cross between tennis, squash and palotta.
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>Now then, back to the old argument of how you can call your national game "football" when in only ever rarely gets kicked, and then only by a man they bring on specially for his prowess in this.

Probably, they just didn't feel like changing the name as the rules changed over time from back when it used to be kicked a lot more.