Golden jubilee souvenir

[MisterPleasant]

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.

Did we not refer to Going to the Soccer to the end of our first spell in the League?

Indeed we did but my fellow correspondent - in Cheshire, I believe - insisted I must be talking nonsense.

[Hadrian]

Funny lot in Cheshire...

[andyg]

As a Lancastrian living in Cheshire I fully concur

[bluessupporter]

Did we not refer to Going to the Soccer to the end of our first spell in the League?

I still do!

[1872]

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

[Holkerbird]

Did we not refer to Going to the Soccer to the end of our first spell in the League?

Indeed we did but my fellow correspondent - in Cheshire, I believe - insisted I must be talking nonsense.

I know in the 1940's it was always referred to as "the soccer" the same as they were grounds and not stadiums.
Language evolves but don't put that one on the Americans. We used it first---probably before they were even discovered.

[John_Bucks]

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).

[McMark]

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).

Give that man a Ceegaar;- https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ame ... ?r=US&IR=T

[sempre contigo]

Incredibly poignant that, when you think of all the things the club had to endure throughout the next half of the century and beyond, the highs and more often the very lows, how it all still rings true 70 years on ey.

Every success this club has had really is a tribute to all those that have contributed (big or small) to keeping it going over the last 120 years, makes you proud.

[1872]

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 assoccer (association football) the latter term was shortened to soccer and the name quickly spread beyond the campus.