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Originally posted by Galadria:
And Donut, I thought that they played soccer at the World Cup??????? 
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That's a mistake often made by Americans Galadria. [img]smile.gif[/img] You see, we play a game which is almost totally played with the feet so we had the bright idea of calling it 'football'. If we invented a game where people throw and catch the ball we probably would have called it something else (like rugby or something. Of course there is that one little guy who sits on the sideline and occasionally kicks the ball.
Of course the Australians invented a game where great lumbering hulks with huge muscles and small brains chase a rugby ball around an oval pitch. In their defence though they don't call their national champions 'world champions'
The Irish have that game where people hit each other with lumps of wood but that's a totally different subject!
