[Paine in the Neck]

Use of the American “Soccer” for the British “Football” is not an affectation. Good try.

Ah. I see. The rules of this slagging match are clear now. When I use a Britishism, that's affectation. When you use one, we just ahistorically declare it to be American.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Per my post 30, you are correct that the term soccer is originally English in origin. You also have to know that few if any Brits ever use the word in that context. It is completely Americanized today and English sports fans get their kits in a twist when Yanks call the so called “beautiful game” such a hateful epithet. So I score it one-nil for luvbach1.

[luvbach1]

Everyone knows soccer is also an American term and not because I declared it to be so. I didn't say its derivation was American. And I wasn't "slagging," just giving my opinion.