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Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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lugnet.sports
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Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:24:41 GMT
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In lugnet.football, Todd Lehman writes:
> (Like lugnet.western, lugnet.football is based on the international or
> European name of the product line. "Soccer" is the U.S. name for what is
> called "Football" everywhere else in the world.)
Just to be picky, we Australians also call it soccer. "Football" here
generally refers to Australian Rules Football (AFL) although I think
that it may also refer to Rugby(?) depending on where you live in Aust.
(Can't say for sure, I'm not a huge sportsfan).
Do not take the above as disagreeing with you category name, I'm not :)
My soccer sets are inventoried under "Football".
Deidre
drb@tasmail.com
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| (...) Oh! OK, I'll fix that on the webpage. OK, added the word "most" and now it says this: ("Soccer" is the U.S. name for what is called "Football" most everywhere else in the world.) That's what I've heard for years and years, anyhow. What's it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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