Quote Originally Posted by Timekeeper View Post
And don't come at me with that 'people should call it by the name that the governing body of the code assigns it' nonsense, because it's just not popular enough in Australia for it to take the colloquial title of Football.
Quote Originally Posted by Jiro View Post
The US has always been an exception to this entire argument. However, I don't care what "the football of Australia" is, I'm just saying that football is football, not soccer. It's FIFA, Football Australia and QLD Football. Whether it's "the football of Australia" or not is irrelevant.

I will make my analogy again. If the Pope said "We are no longer Christians, we are Jesusites" would you go "no smurf you I'm a Christian"? No you would listen to the top dog.: