I guess we should get terminology straight. If you are talking to an international audience then the vast majority of the audience is going to read "Football" and think: the game you play with a round ball, mostly using your feet, frequently using your head and if you are a certain Argentinian occasionally using your hand, that you try to get into a netted goal which scores you 1 point. The players roll around in agony whenever they fall over and that means they are a bunch of pansies. Some people will think: the game you play with a pointy oval shaped ball that you throw and catch and run around with trying to get yourself over a line and if you succeed you get 6 points, then if you kick it between some Y (ish) shaped structure you get an extra point. And the players all wear massive amounts of padding and helments, which makes them a bunch of pansies. Finally a very few will think: the game you play with a not so pointy oval shaped ball on a circular field with 4 loooong poles sticking out of the ground at each "end" (if there is such a thing in a circle) that if you kick the ball between the posts you get some points, how many points depends on which posts you manage to kick the ball between. The players wear really tight short shorts and tight tops, and this causes them to be a bunch of pansies. And those who prefer Rugby (Union or League) will simply think: Oh, their talking about that pansy game again, they should try a real sport, that's why League and Union don't work as video games.

Conclusion: who cares which one you prefer (irl or in video games), they're all for pansies.

I'm sure I've offended the sporting sensibilities of every mod on this site. So please take this post in the spirit that it is intended, i.e. a joke.

Oh and pansy =/= gay btw, so gay members please do not feel aggrieved. You are in no way to be associated with the above mentioned pansy-ness, unless you also play the above mentioned sports. In which case you are a pansy who happens to also be gay, which are totally unrelated states of being not to be conflated or confused with each other.

You know, of the main English speaking countries like the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, only one of those countries calls the game "football" more than "soccer". Other countries like Japan and Phillipines calls the game "soccer" and then you have a whole bunch of countries like China, Korea, Indonesia and so on that calls it something entirely different that was created in their language. To say that "vast majority" of the world calls it football (futbol, to be more accurate in this instance) is kind of wrong. And a bit unfair to say only us Americans say "soccer", a British slang term for the game. In the main English speaking world, "soccer" is more common. It's just that England is so goddamn good at the game and with the EPL that you get this impression that "football" is more common.

I guess we should get terminology straight. If you are talking to an international audience then the vast majority of the audience is going to read "Football" and think: the game you play with a round ball, mostly using your feet, frequently using your head and if you are a certain Argentinian occasionally using your hand, that you try to get into a netted goal which scores you 1 point. The players roll around in agony whenever they fall over and that means they are a bunch of pansies. Some people will think: the game you play with a pointy oval shaped ball that you throw and catch and run around with trying to get yourself over a line and if you succeed you get 6 points, then if you kick it between some Y (ish) shaped structure you get an extra point. And the players all wear massive amounts of padding and helments, which makes them a bunch of pansies. Finally a very few will think: the game you play with a not so pointy oval shaped ball on a circular field with 4 loooong poles sticking out of the ground at each "end" (if there is such a thing in a circle) that if you kick the ball between the posts you get some points, how many points depends on which posts you manage to kick the ball between. The players wear really tight short shorts and tight tops, and this causes them to be a bunch of pansies. And those who prefer Rugby (Union or League) will simply think: Oh, their talking about that pansy game again, they should try a real sport, that's why League and Union don't work as video games.

Conclusion: who cares which one you prefer (irl or in video games), they're all for pansies.

I'm sure I've offended the sporting sensibilities of every mod on this site. So please take this post in the spirit that it is intended, i.e. a joke.

Oh and pansy =/= gay btw, so gay members please do not feel aggrieved. You are in no way to be associated with the above mentioned pansy-ness, unless you also play the above mentioned sports. In which case you are a pansy who happens to also be gay, which are totally unrelated states of being not to be conflated or confused with each other.

You know, of the main English speaking countries like the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, only one of those countries calls the game "football" more than "soccer". Other countries like Japan and Phillipines calls the game "soccer" and then you have a whole bunch of countries like China, Korea, Indonesia and so on that calls it something entirely different that was created in their language. To say that "vast majority" of the world calls it football (futbol, to be more accurate in this instance) is kind of wrong. And a bit unfair to say only us Americans say "soccer", a British slang term for the game. In the main English speaking world, "soccer" is more common. It's just that England is so goddamn good at the game and with the EPL that you get this impression that "football" is more common.

What is the most important country in the world then?  The United States actually is currently the most important country in the world.