[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[John Smith]

On 29 June 2010 08:36, Jason Cunningham <jamicuosm at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Gridiron? I didn't know the there were so many versions of football in North
> America

This shouldn't be surprising since 4 codes of "football" in Australia
came from the UK/Ireland, Soccer, Rugby League/Union and Touch
Football was derived from Rugby League, and a 5th (Aussie Rules) most
likely has some kind of Irish roots...