Who says soccer? Ask the people who invented the word (and the game) - the Brits

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Originally Posted by Brian Bryan

Handball seems the obvious choice for the name of the game, to me at least. The ball is carried in peoples arms, or hands, so why not handball or armball?

It's the most logical. The ball isn't kicked with the foot, so football seems rather a stretch of the imagination.

The 'ball' isn't spherical shaped, either. Infact, it's more of an egg-shape, so why not 'handegg' or 'armegg' or Americ-egg or something sensible?

Beats me.

Because that sounds retarded as fuck?

Yo nigga let's get down on some armegg Aw fuck yeah no