RT� Sport showing their true colours again

**gspain** · 10/10/2008, 8:06 AM

Soccer is a slang term.

Football is the name of the sport worldwide.

It is run here by the Football Association of Ireland.

**jbyrne** · 10/10/2008, 9:17 AM

Originally Posted by pete

I am specifically referring to process of choosing MNS as the name of that show. I believe an RTE person said it but I could be mixing it up so not sure if would pass a lie detector.

who cares what its called as long as its on? the eircom lge media watch with punters ready to pounce at the first slip-up, mistake, item they think is degrading to the lge has to stop.... its a complete bore at this stage

**Dodge** · 10/10/2008, 9:24 AM

MNS is probably because the US NFL have copyrighted Monday Night Football (Think sky had to change theirs too). No big deal

Calling them Longford Town soccer club is just another example of people in the media simply not cring about what they publish. They got the name of the club wrong because they don't know the name of it, and are too lazy to check it out.

Oh and its a ****ing nothing story. Regional newspaper filler

**BohDiddley** · 10/10/2008, 9:55 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Calling them Longford Town soccer club is just another example of people in the media simply not cring about what they publish. They got the name of the club wrong because they don't know the name of it, and are too lazy to check it out.

I think that is probably true in individual cases... slip-ups, carelessness, habit. But if it is the case that RTE have an active policy not to use the f-word when referring to the global game then that is significant, especially if the word is reserved for GAA.
Maybe I'm wrong, and perhaps there are exceptions, but I haven't heard Association Football called football on RTE for some time now. That doesn't happen by accident.

**Straightstory** · 10/10/2008, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Source

Most people around the world call it soccer, even in England they also refer it as soccer some times i.e. Soccer A.M.
It doesn't help the image of the league, when the average sports fan reads crap like this. Sorry but talk about been paranoid.

Also RTE have already taken it down from Aertel, so not many would of noticed the article.

Eh... no they don't. 'Soccer' is rather a quaint term that is rarely heard nowadays - except in Ireland. To say that most people 'around the world' call it socccer is quite obviously wrong.

**gspain** · 10/10/2008, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by BohDiddley

I think that is probably true in individual cases... slip-ups, carelessness, habit. But if it is the case that RTE have an active policy not to use the f-word when referring to the global game then that is significant, especially if the word is reserved for GAA.
Maybe I'm wrong, and perhaps there are exceptions, but I haven't heard Association Football called football on RTE for some time now. That doesn't happen by accident.

Correct Newstalk and Today FM for example would regularly use football.

**bennocelt** · 10/10/2008, 2:51 PM

Originally Posted by Source

One last comment, If someone called it soccer, you still know what they are talking about. There are probably more than 20 different sports that are/can be referred to as football

yeah but you would also know that football isnt their true love