The perennial football versus soccer debate, how excruciatingly dull.
The fact is that Soccer is an English abbreviation of the term 'association football' and was in common use in Britain for donkeys years, until there was an anti American reaction against its use, similar to the anti Gaelic sentiments of a pathetic group of people in Dublin typified by the late journalist George Byrne.
http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...soccer/372771/