Originally Posted by CDSmith

In Canada we play both sports. We call the one soccer in order to avoid confusion.

No sense calling both sports by the same name.


As a completely random point of interest, the one NFL game played in Britain annually in recent years is thus far sold out months ahead of time in a matter of HOURS to the tune of 80k tickets sold.

There are obviously a few Brits who don't really give a shit about why it's called "football", they seem to like it anyway.