Talk:Association football/Archive 10

message: When you score a goal, people usually mean you scored with a person, as in sex. Well...I do that a lot.  But in this case they mean you scored a point for your team. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bpgirl14 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Football Goals 

message: I just don't understand why the English Wikipedia uses the word cautioning instead of Booked or Booking when a football player gets an yellow card. In every  FIFA game when a player gets an yellow card, the comments says that the "player getting booked", not that the "player get cautioning". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.84.45.196 (talk • contribs).
: Because the official term as specified in the Laws of the Game is caution. A player gets cautioned, when he is shown the yellow card. The term booking is explained in the main article misconduct (football). I hope that answers your question. – Elisson • T • C • 20:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, it does. Thanx a lot! But I don't understand why the commentants in every football game or in TV says booking —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.84.45.196 (talk) 21:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Commentators do say "he's been cautioned" rather than "he's been booked", but they tend to go with the less formal. Most commentators would say "penalty shootout" rather than kicks from the penalty mark, because again it's less formal. Illuminattile 01:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Never in my whole like have I heard a commentator say "he's been cautioned" it's allways "he's been booked" or "he's been given a yellow card" Chandlertalk 02:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cards 

message: Let's rename this page to football please.--Jet123 22:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we can all agree that that move is not going to happen. Also please do not just slap a move template on a page without following the instructions. I've removed it for now because of that reason. – Elisson • T • C • 22:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

text: The existing name makes sense.  "Football" is the more common name, but that word is used by many people to refer to a different sport, so the disambiguation in the title is useful.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the reasoning behind your request? You need to state some reasons if you are going to get any consensus for a name change. As has been stated, the current title is seen by many as the best compromise. Removing 'football' from the name all together would be completely wrong, as this is the official name for the sport and arguably the most commonly used name. —Dave101→talk→contributions • 11:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename

message: Someone with the power to edit this article should probably add a line about the Major League Soccer league in North America.  --24.235.229.208 15:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure why? We have a section about domestic competitions, where the main article link takes you to an article with links to all domestic competitions. The five best European leagues (which in turn are the five best leagues in the world) are mentioned, I don't see a reason to go further. There are several leagues out there that are equally good or better than the MLS that aren't mentioned either. – Elisson • T • C • 15:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: (after edit conflict) :Why? Other than in the founding history, this article doesn't mention individual leagues and organisations below the continental confederation level. -- Arwel (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, we definitely wouldn't mention such a low-level league in this top-level article. You can find it in two clicks from this article, which is as it should be. --Guinnog 15:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major League Soccer 

message: A recent edit adds the ascertion "boasts twice the audience of the Summer Olympics[1] mainly due to the enthusiasm of latin american audiences." I've removed an odd link between 'enthusiasm' and hooliganism, but a unsure about the claim about Latin America being responsible for the large audience. If it is true does anyone have a link supporting it, otherwise it just looks like opinion? ReadingOldBoy 11:37, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just subtle vandalism, I guess. Removed. – Elisson • T • C • 14:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audience make up 

message: What if someone went onto wikipidia and changed the information so it would be false...for example I just read the soccer and it had jibberish in it and wierd measurements?64.203.146.157 14:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was reverted and if you continue to vandalise you will be blocked from editing. Archibald99  15:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What if 

message: Can we please change the super cheesy pictures at the beginning and end of the article to something a little more representative of the sport. The pictures are horrible.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.203.27.215 (talk • contribs) 
:yes, the pictures are cheesy and make the article look bad, there should be ones of maradona and pele in their place and for goalkeepers zoff and shilton. here is one of maradona for use --SalvoCalcio 04:48, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: yes change these —Preceding unsigned comment added by Modelun88 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horrible Pictures 

message: This page should address the derivation of the word "Soccer" (maybe it does but I came onto the page to find it and can't).  As it happens, I believe it's an abbreviation of "Association (Football)". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.201.35.52 (talk) 22:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is - from asSOCiation football - primarily used in America where just 'football' refers to American Football.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.96.161.52 (talk) 21:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here you go -
soccer
1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang, from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); cf. rugger, but they hardly could have taken the first three letters of Assoc.♦Tangerines♦·Talk 00:21, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation of the word "Soccer" 

message: "The sport also exacerbated tensions at the beginning of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, when a match between Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb devolved into rioting in March 1990."
The correct statement would be: "... between Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade devolved ..." because the game took place in Zagreb. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.80.60 (talk) 12:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: True, and fixed. Thanks for the input! – Elisson • T • C • 13:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History and development