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Carlo Ancelotti

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Archie Knox said:
I, like I assume you also, am no Carragher fan. But let's not try to twist every comment into some bitter anti-Everton rant. The whole football world thinks Ancelotti is too big for us, too good for us. And to honest, I think he is. As if a club who hasn't won anything in 25 years should be able to coax a serial winner like him into joining us. But that's the reason why I am absolutely bleedin' made up that we are getting him and think the club has played a blinder. Anyway, waste of time writing that as 95% of posters here are so desperate to prove themselves to be the biggest super Blues ever they won't admit the obvious. Apologist? Hah.
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Napoli have hardly been winning trophy after trophy in the last 25 years
 

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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I call it football. Always have, always will. My American friends understand , especially when I qualify it by saying "proper football".

Meanwhile, here is hoping Carlo brings proper football back to Everton!

Nient'altro che il meglio farà!
 

roydo said:
So Dunc takes the Arsenal game then?
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That seems sensible. Arsenal feel like a side that we can push aside a la Chelsea under Dunc - which in itself would give Ancelotti a good springboard.

It surprises me that Arteta being in the dugout for Arsenal is seemingly a given. It won’t be an easy game for them, or for Arteta to have his first match against us.
 
Pittsburgh Footy said:
No idea if the following is true, mind :coffee:

The word “soccer,” which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, “association football.” As other versions of the game evolved to include Rugby Football, it is believed the Brits adopted colloquialisms to distinguish each game.

“The rugby football game was shortened to ‘rugger,’ a term recognized in British English to the present day, and the association football game was, plausibly, shortened to ‘soccer’” Szymanski writes. (Apparently ending words in “er” was a fad back then.)

Gradually, the term “soccer” gained popularity in the U.S. to distinguish the sport from American football. By the 1980s, the Brits began to part with the term, apparently, because it had become too “American.”
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rugger off
 

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