Difference between revisions of "Talk:Soccer teams in England"

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(sorry footie is soccer)
 
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:Thanks - I may not be able to do more than shift stuff today; it will need a bit of work to make the info supplied up to date and reasonably comparable in terms of the information provided. But all in good time. [[User:Bradlaugh|Bradlaugh]] 11:31, 16 May 2008 (EDT)
 
:Thanks - I may not be able to do more than shift stuff today; it will need a bit of work to make the info supplied up to date and reasonably comparable in terms of the information provided. But all in good time. [[User:Bradlaugh|Bradlaugh]] 11:31, 16 May 2008 (EDT)
  
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Can we not rename this "Football teams in England"? It's a sore point over here with many that only our friends across the pond use the term soccer.
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::Better yet, let's create an article called [[Soccer in England]] and begin by noting that - everywhere but in America - people call soccer "football" (both in Spanish and in English). It is only in the good ol' USA that "football" refers to American rules football.
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::I made a nice compromise over this at Wikipedia, because so many Britishers were there, but this is an American encyclopedia and we use American English here. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 22:27, 12 February 2010 (EST)

Latest revision as of 03:27, February 13, 2010

Great start! Keep up the good work, old chap. ^_^ --Ed Poor Talk 11:22, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

Thanks - I may not be able to do more than shift stuff today; it will need a bit of work to make the info supplied up to date and reasonably comparable in terms of the information provided. But all in good time. Bradlaugh 11:31, 16 May 2008 (EDT)
Better yet, let's create an article called Soccer in England and begin by noting that - everywhere but in America - people call soccer "football" (both in Spanish and in English). It is only in the good ol' USA that "football" refers to American rules football.
I made a nice compromise over this at Wikipedia, because so many Britishers were there, but this is an American encyclopedia and we use American English here. --Ed Poor Talk 22:27, 12 February 2010 (EST)