[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Stephen Hope]

On 28 June 2010 10:26, Jason Cunningham <jamicuosm at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the wiki needs to be changed to tell people not to use the insulting
> word 'soccer', especially as we try to use British English to stop tags
> getting confusing.
> Just using sport=football would be confusing, so I prefer
> sport=association_football
> I would also guess that using the insulting term 'soccer' in the UK will
> lead to vandalism by British football supporters
>
> Jason

No, Jason, what is insulting is when soccer players/fans try to claim
exclusive use of a word which has been used for hundreds of years for
many sports, of which soccer is one on the most recent, and also the
least like the original.  Original football banned kicking the ball,
it was carried and thrown only.

You can recommend association_football if you like, but I would bet
many more people can tell you what soccer is than association
football.

Stephen