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Yes. Facts are needed. Did you know that governments also call the game soccer? The ""most major media"" claim is just plain wrong, and that has been demonstrated. Soccer people call the game soccer when they come to Melbourne. Can we also admit that the name of ""football"" for the game is a marketing exercise? One that hasn't succeeded on the other side of the Barassi Line, and won't in the foreseeable future.   "