McLean is a devout Irish nat, but the hypocrite loves the English pound.

I’m sure I read somewhere that Soccer comes from the time when Football and Rugby Football began to split from each other, the soccer coming from Association Football (and subsequently Rugger from Rugby football). In the 1880s students at Oxford distinguished between rugger (rugby union) and assocc...

Excellent. I wish I'd had that a few weeks ago. I had a feisty discussion with someone on another forum about 'soccer' and how it was a common term around Barrow, not restricted to the USofA, and there it is in the opening paragraph from 1951. The word soccer came from Oxford university in the 1880s

there is more chance of bafc winning the premiere league than the sheep winning the spl.