The GAA thread - part deux

“This is the view of the general public and not a survey of sports fans.”

So basically women that don’t like sports will be included. Bit of a crazy survey

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It’s what people outside the pale and those outside UK influence call association football.

That annual Teneo survey/report is some load of bollix.

It reflects the views of a load of fannies.

Most memorable moment is usually some Six Nations happening or a Katie Taylor fight.

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Americans call it soccer.

Everyone else calls it football, in Italy we call it calcio.

Seems to be a lot of Irish people that think they are from Orange County.

Irish people call it soccer, mate. We’ve been over this countless times… We have our own football.

Americans call it soccer.

You have the Football Association of Ireland.

And so do Irish people… Brothers in arms.

The Irish call it Football

Do you know how the FAI was formed you do?

Irish people call it soccer — all major media sites have sections for soccer to reflect what the people call it.

It’s the Football Association of Ireland. Can’t see anything about soccer there.

What do sport are the likes of Mickey Harte or Peter Canavan referring to when they say “football”?

Soccer is what the people call it and it drives you batshit crazy for some reason. If you say football to people in Ireland they automatically assume you mean Gaelic football … I’m not sure how it works up in the occupied 6 where you’re from but that’s how Irish people refer to it - soccer.

Gaelic Football.

No. The Football Association of Ireland call it football.

Americans call it soccer

And Irish people.

But wait, didn’t you just say:

You’ve directly contradicted yourself there on the internet.

No. They call it football.

The Football Association of Ireland.

In America it’s soccer.

In Italy it’s calcio.

Everywhere else it is football or some other language variant of football.

He’s all over the place. They call two different sports the same thing but they blink their eyes once when saying it for gaelic football and they blink twice for association football

Yeah football.

It’s not a term unique to one sport, rugby football use it too.

You’ve been caught out.