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Yeah, And You Don't Know Anything About Baseball Or OUR Football. We're Even
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Now that soccer... er, football is more popular in the U.S., people in England are complaining/amused/condescending about the American terminology they think we use in describing the matches, and they're using Fox Sports' Gus Johnson as a barometer. Gus Johnson! He's hardly representative of any other human. He's making up terms on the fly. I've been watching soccer since the '60s, played a little, went to every Cosmos match at Giants Stadium in the "Once in a Lifetime" era, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "in the six" or some of the other things they ascribe to American soccer fans. In fact, fans here say "pitch" and "nil" and other stuff to a fault -- it comes across as Anglophilia, and the fans as wanna-be Englishmen. But it's the proper terminology. (BBC)
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