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On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:50:19 +0100
Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>On 03/04/2024 at 08:38, David Brown wrote:
>> One lottery winner managed this.  When he won about £160M in the 
>> lottery, he bought his favourite football club (or "soccer club", for 
>> those who come from a country where "football" doesn't involve feet or 
>> round balls) and set it up as a trust owned by the club's fans.
>
>I do wish people would stop intimating that the US is the only place 
>where Association Football (the football we play in the UK) is known as 
>soccer. When I was at secondary school (back in the 1960's) "soccer 
>practise" was a well know alternative to the term "football practise".

IME the only people in the UK who call football "soccer" are rugger bugger
types.