Much funnier w/ the accent

Goff do you happen to know how bad Toja's injury may be?
Think he'll start tommorow?
No this isn't for my fantasy team, honest.
the injury reports unless they are yours are not very good and I need a Soccer Insider!

looking at the time I mean do you think he'll start later this evening?

Err... I think it's "concave," not "conclave."

:)

I do love the late-night blogging though, Mr. Goff.

I too love the late-night blogging. It makes me feel a lot better about myself when I'm checking this site a million and nine times at 2:30 and there is actually an update.

I hope there is an update in an hour when I'm checking for the million and seventh time.

...and I crossed the finish line like a determined helicopter...in 4th place...

And here I thought it was the Brits, specifically Charles Brown, that coined the term "soccer". Sad that modern day Brits don't know the history of their own sport. I do think his stand-up was funny though.

I'm sleep deprived...

...Tell me a bed-time story?

Bed-time story?

...

It all began in early-April, back in 1996. The wrong team won...

It's three o'clock and we haven't had an update in more than 3 hours. Where are you, Mr. Goff!

*falls asleep with the signing of Galin Ivanov*

I agree with you Section106. They invented the word soccer and it was used for a while over there but they are now too ignorant about their own game to understand the history of the word soccer.

Oliver is a funny man and a great addition the Daily Show.

We had an interesting discussion on America and soccer when we launched the Reuters soccer blog.
http://blogs.reuters.com/soccer/author/paulradford/
It's been pretty quiet on the issue since but I still think unless the main point of a game is kicking with your foot, the game cant be called football.
Even rughy is officially rugby football..why?

While I think it is silly for Brits to talk about the word soccer like it is inferior (which is actually how Brits talk about everything), I'm not sure I get your point, Mark Meadows. The sports and games evolved and the names stayed for the most part. It's really just that simple. Would it be more appropriate to call soccer - association?

The guy that broke the other players leg in Holland and recieved a 6 month suspended sentence plays in the EPL! Shocking! :p

Shouldn't this entry be entitled "British Humour"?

I'd love to see a match featuring Go Ahead Eagles versus Nagoya Grampus 8 - just because.

I think it's "concave," not "conclave."
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fixed. thanks

On the BBC radio sports shows, older retired players and some coaches often refer to the game as "soccer". Usually, someone will text into the show to complain about hearing the word on the show. My guess is that "soccer" was still in common use in the UK a generation ago and that what galls the British is that the word is now an "American" term (even though a couple other countries also call the game soccer).

Should I be the guy who comes through with the long, pedantic explanation of the word "soccer" and how the British are partially responsible for it's origins?

...no, I don't think I should.

I think there are enough hints at it here already, Jeff M...

I thought it was supposed to be funny, not a lesson in etymology?

Beautiful woman: "Should I go with you?"

Scully: "This is no place for an entomologist."

It's funny because it's true

I saw this live, it was hilarious, John Oliver is the man...

@ Mark Meadows - Rugby football is so called because it was "invented" when William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a football match at Rugby Grammar School. Flat out cheating in my book, but it seemed to catch on.

I had heard that games using the word football were called as such because they are played on foot rather than on horseback (like polo) and that it has nothing to do with what part of the body was used to play the game.

"I had heard that games using the word football were called as such because they are played on foot"

There were lots of foot-based sports with hyphenated names: rugby-football, association-football, cricket-football, tennis-football, and hunting-football. The last one does not include fox hunting, that was called fox-hunting-polo.

I had heard that games using the word football were called as such because they are played on foot rather than on horseback (like polo) and that it has nothing to do with what part of the body was used to play the game.

does the guy have any more jokes from 1965 that he'd like to pass off as fresh 'humour'?

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