Anyone in the Reading/London area?

SilverTongue · 14 Jan 2017 at 08:59

Malt_Vinegar said:
Haha, I know your pain. Used to navigate Cemetery Junction a lot

Working in Theale now and living out in the sticks near Amazingstoke. My 9 mile commute is all country lanes and never any real traffic although I do find the odd rogue sheep or old dear in the hedge after sliding on the untreated roads.

Sort of know your pain, used to work in Silver Street and come down from Whitley so would be fine until I got to the bottom of Kendrick Road trying to merge onto Kings Road there was a nightmare.

sigma · 14 Jan 2017 at 12:36

Diddums said:
Yes. Soccer. The correct term for football.

Wat

sigma · 14 Jan 2017 at 12:37

ttaskmaster said:
Or whatever they're called in the UK.
I dunno - We didn't actually have either 'Soccer Moms' or even SUVs when I was growing up...

Is that not just a derivation of Asocciation Football?

Oh, didn't realise you were American.

ttaskmaster · 16 Jan 2017 at 11:00

sigma said:
Oh, didn't realise you were American.

Neither did I - Football Association of 1863-present was formed at the Freemasons' Tavern in Great Queen Street, London, England... I assume that makes it a British term, then?

Apparently it was the upper class British term, used presumably to distinguish from Rugby Football, or something?
I also presume that's why Brit colonies like Aus, NZ and Saff Afrika still/did call it soccer?

But beyond the etymology, I don't really have much interest either way...