re: Bedoya and I believe

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have a strong feeling this is a troll account.

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Second

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There is no derision for Gaelic football or Aussie Rules because they don't try to steal the title of just 'football'.

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Oh get off it. No one claims the word "football."

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They respect their elders, like we're all taught as sprogs.

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You're clearly a moron.

Please frick off from this board. You clearly don't know anything about the history of the words "football" or "soccer," nor do you know anything about the development of either sports in the United States.

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There are two different sports known as simply 'football' around the world, and ones an imposter.

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No. There are many sports around the world known as football, each of them with their specific code, each evolving from one of two English schoolboy games. The word soccer is used in countries which developed different codes to differentiate Association Football with the various other codes that developed regionally (American Gridiron Football, Canadian Gridiron Football, Gaelic Football, Australian Football, etc, among many other variations). Are you indignant that the Australian team is named the Socceroos?

If you're whole shtick is going to be based on this extremely tired and silly argument, then I'd advise you to just shut the frick up. This is the best board on this site, don't be a count and you'll be fine. But since you seem to insist on being an a-hole, I would just advise you to just shut up.

I think in Australia, they call Aussie Rules football simply football. Why else would they use the term soccer?

They tried to put England's highlights on YouTube but it was too short. Even Vine was like wtf

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We just have more affinity with our local clubs, and you see fans of other clubs about to gloat at etc. I'm sure the majority of you care more about your local NFL clubs than you do about the American NFL national team?

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That's an absurd comparison to a fictional team.

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what does that make you? A cave troll?

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Where'd you get those clothes, the toilet store?

RDW - I think you have a point. Football culture is similar in almost all countries world wide. Everyone puts their own slant on it, which is a good thing - wouldn't it be boring if we all sung and did the same things - but from what I gather (and I hold my hand up I hardly watch any American sport so I could be completely wrong here) American style sport support is the kind of thing that football culture turns it's nose up at. Stuff like cheerleaders, goal music, face paint, foam hands and such. There are one or two clubs in England who use these methods (namely Crystal palace) and they get ridiculed for it.

I read a bit from an English journo during the World Cup who said (trying to quote from memory) "and along comes team usa in it's usual pompous bombastic fashion, strutting about with a giant eagle on it's chest". When we over here saw that "I believe we will win" it was pretty much what we all thought, it was a head in hands moment thinking "what the feck are these lot doing" not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

I think he's right that you need to be more English but less English, as ridiculous as that sounds. You need to have your own style of support, it's no good just copying us, but it should be less foam hands, face paint, army recruitment style chants, because in doing those things you'll never really fit in.

Not sure that makes a great deal of sense. Don't really know how to explain it.

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there is no such thing as a national team in football in the US

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Incorrect

You said it, not me. The United States fields a football team that competes internationally. Albeit, not in a competition that's highly regarded, but still.