Robbie Keane

[tetsujin1979]

Football for me, as mentioned gah hasnt a whole lot of football skills (bar two/three teams) these days, wasnt their one team that had a few players who didnt even manage to kick the ball in croker during the whole of a game.!
And Americans say soccer!

which is a little strange, the word soccer orginated in England, it comes from association football

[tetsujin1979]

I've read Danny Kelly's article about Keane in today's Indo twice, and I still can't decide if he likes Keane or not: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-29554327.html

[Fixer82]

which is a little strange, the word soccer orginated in England, it comes from association football

Really? Very interesting. Thanks for that little fact!

[punkrocket]

which is a little strange, the word soccer orginated in England, it comes from association football

Which is the term I use if there's any doubt, never soccer. Even if it is a bit of a mouthful.
Just a habit I suppose, picked up from my da.

[bennocelt]

which is a little strange, the word soccer orginated in England, it comes from association football

Didnt know that, interesting, but yeah I know its origins, but no one now uses that term in England, and yeah if it phisses a few gah heads off as well then thats a bonus

[BonnieShels]

I think more generally 'circus' would be used where might say trick play or trick, first examples I could find on youtube were in
basketball and involved some sort of tricky play, for example you can find the 10 ten circus shot which we would call trick shots.
But other play like bouncing the ball between a player legs might be call a circus play or any kind of play involving some sort of trick.

Were I American I might have called myself circus_colour or circusy_colour, even worse than my current id!

Surely you'd be circus_color or circusy_color?

[Charlie Darwin]

I suspect that might be because Gillette is an American company harder to explain Soccer AM though (but it's current, not original sponsor is Gillette).

However Gillette launched a youtube channel recently and it's called Gillette Football Club, I guess they must have been aware of the kind of
hostility they would generate if they called it Gillette Soccer Club!!

Because soccer and football are interchangeable terms in Britain and a lot of other places, and as OMTY explained the alliteration in Soccer Saturday is lovely.

I call soccer both soccer and football and I call Gaelic football gaaaah or Gaelic. A lot of people would be the same around here.

[geysir]

Didnt know that, interesting, but yeah I know its origins, but no one now uses that term in England, and yeah if it phisses a few gah heads off as well then thats a bonus

I thought most people knew that one
Why would that information p´iss off GAA folk? it just demonstrates the origins of the word soccer.
If anybody gets píssed off, it usually is soccer fans (bizarrely) reacting against against the use of the word 'soccer' to describe assoc football.
And this is bizarre in the extreme, in an Irish context.

[Charlie Darwin]

I find it funny when English-speakers criticise Americanisms when many of them are actually rooted far more in English-English than the currently used in England. The words 'garbage' and 'trash' are in Shakespeare, for god's sake.

[tricky_colour]

Really? Very interesting. Thanks for that little fact!

Before it was called Soccer is was called Assoccer apparently, I always wondered why it was called Soccer as the S is the third
letter of association.

It should really be called sew-ch-er or as the c in soccer is a lot hard than the one in association.

Lots more here

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index....e-word-soccer/

[bennocelt]

I thought most people knew that one
Why would that information p´iss off GAA folk? it just demonstrates the origins of the word soccer.
If anybody gets píssed off, it usually is soccer fans (bizarrely) reacting against against the use of the word 'soccer' to describe assoc football.
And this is bizarre in the extreme, in an Irish context.

Because they think "real football" is the gah. When you start talking about football they think gaelic, and wont be for turning
And yes the term soccer does annoy I admit - even with its origins

[Macy]

In my experience, GAA people are much more precious about "protecting" the term football for their use than football supporters, correcting you if you dare to use it for association football. Association Football, Rugby Football, GAA Football - they're all fecking football. No one bloody owns the term. There's a patheticness in Ireland about insisting it's the GAA version that gets sole use of the term - it's insecurity about competing with World games.

[BonnieShels]

What a bizarre discussion.

In every country the native/popular code generally gets called football.

I call gaelic football, football. I call association football, soccer. Generally for clarity's sake.

Sometimes I call soccer, football , sometimes I don't. And sometimes I call throw-in, kick-off.

Who gives a rats.

COYBIG!

[bennocelt]

What a bizarre discussion.

Who gives a rats.

COYBIG!

Ha yes i agree, i only pop in here to see how Robbie is doing in America.
I dont really care that much!

[ArdeeBhoy]

Liar...

[tetsujin1979]

Ha yes i agree, i only pop in here to see how Robbie is doing in America.
I dont really care that much!

you don't care so much you all but hijacked a thread to get your point across

[bennocelt]

you don't care so much you all but hijacked a thread to get your point across

Cop on, I didnt hijack it at all (was there before i gave an opinion)

anyway robbie scored!

[elroy]

Its no coincidence that Robbie is always the guy poaching all these goals for us. A true Irish sporting legend. I hope he continues for another campaign. For those who use the 'he never scores in big matches', last night was yet another thorn in that argument.

[DannyInvincible]

I believe last night was only the second game we have ever lost in which Robbie has also scored.

[pineapple stu]

Wow. 3-2 v Russia was the other?