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Title: Football - again!
Post by: GrannyMac on February 28, 2024, 06:02:54 PM
Both BBC and ITV are showing football tonight.  Its not the first time this week.  Thank goodness we have some recorded programmes to watch.  🙁
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Scrumpy on February 28, 2024, 06:04:23 PM
Good old Netflix.. Prime.. iPlayer.. and all the others..
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Diasi on February 29, 2024, 07:47:36 AM
Quote from: GrannyMac on February 28, 2024, 06:02:54 PMBoth BBC and ITV are showing football tonight.  Its not the first time this week.  Thank goodness we have some recorded programmes to watch.  🙁
Exactly.

Both ITV & BBC have a plethora of channels that they could use for sport without using the main channel.

I'm sure 3-yr-olds aren't watching CBeebies in the evening & ITV could use one of their channels which normally shows moronic programmes.
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Alex on February 29, 2024, 09:41:50 AM
Moan, moan, moan.   This is the FA Cup, part of British history since 1871  Last night a group of kids from Liverpool, Chester and Warrington beat a Premier League team - I'm happy 😄
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: klondike on February 29, 2024, 10:08:16 AM
Hope you weren't watching live TV Alex  :smiley:
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Alex on February 29, 2024, 12:46:48 PM
Quote from: klondike on February 29, 2024, 10:08:16 AMHope you weren't watching live TV Alex  :smiley:

As if !!!!!!! :cool:
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 29, 2024, 04:50:08 PM
it's soccer
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Alex on February 29, 2024, 06:55:06 PM
Quote from: Michael Rolls on February 29, 2024, 04:50:08 PMit's soccer

Maybe to you Mike, but to 99.9% of Brits it's Football !
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Michael Rolls on March 01, 2024, 07:40:16 PM
can I help it if they're wrong?
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Alex on March 01, 2024, 07:41:33 PM
Quote from: Michael Rolls on March 01, 2024, 07:40:16 PMcan I help it if they're wrong?

When in Rome Michael.......
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Michael Rolls on March 01, 2024, 07:41:59 PM
 :grin:  :grin:  :grin:
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: klondike on March 01, 2024, 10:19:11 PM
Well to Americans it's soccer because to them football is a different game.

Being a smartarse I used google translate which said football is calcio in Italian. I always reverse translate to see what sort of rubbish it comes back as. In this case calcio is apparently soccer in English  :grin:

Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Alex on March 02, 2024, 11:36:30 AM
ITV and BBC plus millions of football fans in this country and in Europe do call it 'football' and have done for generations.  The Germans call it fußball, the French call it le football,
Spanish fútbol, no idea why the Italians use the word 'kick' to describe the game.

The majority of US fans use the word 'soccer'because there is another more popular sport there that they call football.  We call that American football, the Germans call it American football, perhaps other European countries do the same I'm not sure. 

Hopefully I'll remember not to take Mike's bait next time.

🤓
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Scrumpy on March 02, 2024, 01:32:39 PM

I don't watch Coronation Street , Eastenders or Emmerdale but they continue to show these soaps.. They are part of British television..
This also applies to football .. The FA cup.. It is British.. don't take it away..
Title: Re: Football - again!
Post by: Michael Rolls on March 03, 2024, 02:05:07 PM
 :grin:  :grin:  :grin:  :grin: