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Carlo Ancelotti

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MarcelsGoat said:
Well if you go back 300 years American wasnt even a country.
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@BirkenheadBlue
The word soccer comes from an abbreviation for Association (from Association Football, the ‘official’ name for the game) plus the addition of the suffix –er. This suffix (originally Rugby School slang, and then adopted by Oxford University), was appended to ‘shortened’ nouns, in order to form jocular words. Rugger is probably the most common example, but other examples included in the Oxford English Dictionary are brekker (for breakfast), bonner (for bonfire), and cupper (a series of intercollegiate matches played in competition for a cup).

So an english term which I don't mind - but quite rationally I don't like those from the US using the word to discriminate it from their football, which is nothing to do with football. So far as I'm concerned they may use the term 'soccer' as soon as they are prepared to describe their own game as hand-egg or something.
 
Keiran said:
He suggested he hadn’t heard anything but good about Ancelotti from his players but it’s common knowledge that the Bayern players weren’t happy with him.

That’s not being negative or trolling, it’s preventing the spreading of misinformation, whether positive or negative.
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Have you considered going back to his social media posts when he was 14? Probably a gold mine for you.
 
blue4eva77 said:
No it wasn't. Had a couple of horrendous years under him i will admit but it wasn't dire on the whole. It was absolutely dire before him, truly abysmal, but not whilst he was here when you look upon the years on a whole.

I love how some Evertonians forget what it was like being a blue for long periods in the 90's. That was dire mate.
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I agree in that I remember too vividly the days of Walter Smith. And the reign of Moyes was a relief from that dark dark period.

But I can understand the fear of a Moyes reappointment. I do think it would dampen the mood of the fan base in a sense of stepping backwards and would crush any sense of excitement or of making tangible progress.

Moyes, dire or not, would be a terrible appointment in a number of ways.
 
chrismpw said:
@BirkenheadBlue
The word soccer comes from an abbreviation for Association (from Association Football, the ‘official’ name for the game) plus the addition of the suffix –er. This suffix (originally Rugby School slang, and then adopted by Oxford University), was appended to ‘shortened’ nouns, in order to form jocular words. Rugger is probably the most common example, but other examples included in the Oxford English Dictionary are brekker (for breakfast), bonner (for bonfire), and cupper (a series of intercollegiate matches played in competition for a cup).

So an english term which I don't mind - but quite rationally I don't like those from the US using the word to discriminate it from their football, which is nothing to do with football. So far as I'm concerned they may use the term 'soccer' as soon as they are prepared to describe their own game as hand-egg or something.
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Does anybody anymore still use the term togger ?

 

chrismpw said:
@BirkenheadBlue
The word soccer comes from an abbreviation for Association (from Association Football, the ‘official’ name for the game) plus the addition of the suffix –er. This suffix (originally Rugby School slang, and then adopted by Oxford University), was appended to ‘shortened’ nouns, in order to form jocular words. Rugger is probably the most common example, but other examples included in the Oxford English Dictionary are brekker (for breakfast), bonner (for bonfire), and cupper (a series of intercollegiate matches played in competition for a cup).
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chrismpw said:
@BirkenheadBlue
The word soccer comes from an abbreviation for Association (from Association Football, the ‘official’ name for the game) plus the addition of the suffix –er. This suffix (originally Rugby School slang, and then adopted by Oxford University), was appended to ‘shortened’ nouns, in order to form jocular words. Rugger is probably the most common example, but other examples included in the Oxford English Dictionary are brekker (for breakfast), bonner (for bonfire), and cupper (a series of intercollegiate matches played in competition for a cup).

So an english term which I don't mind - but quite rationally I don't like those from the US using the word to discriminate it from their football, which is nothing to do with football. So far as I'm concerned they may use the term 'soccer' as soon as they are prepared to describe their own game as hand-egg or something.
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there’s nothing wrong with Soccerball......
 


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