The EM is coming
Well, you’re not going to be hearing about much other than football for the next few weeks I’m afraid.
I’ll try to make it as informative as possible, but that’s the theme you are going to get.
So two things:
Firstly, England did not qualify, and this is the last time I shall mention that they didn’t, and also that they deserved not to because they played like a bunch of amateurs - with all due respect to amateurs who might feel slighted by the comparison.
Secondly, when I say football, I mean the game where you spend most of the time kicking a ball with your foot.
Not American Football. Not Rugby Football. Not Australian Rules Football. Just Football. And please, not “soccer”.
“Soccer” stems from the term Association Football, used to distinguish Football from Rugby. It’s called Association Football because The Football Association (clever, huh?) set down the rules for the game in 1863, which were then later used as a basis by FIFA, the international governing body of the sport.
The word soccer is used in the UK (often negatively) by people who don’t play it, typically upper class people who went to schools where rugby is played, and football is discouraged. Except of course the children play football in the breaks, because that’s what they want to play - “The beautiful game” as it is so often termed.
You’d never hear anyone say “Fancy a game of soccer?”. It’d be “football” or “footie”.
So from now on, at least here, it’s Football. OK?
Extremely witty photo credit: Flickr - Tomas Caspers
And if you need a translation of the photo, it says Quarter finals, Semi finals, Final (Vienna) straight on. England, exit stage right…
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