"Soccer" is an English term!

[Lallans]

Reading the historic threads here reminded me, apropos of nothing in particular, of the old adage that "football (soccer) is a game for gentlemen played by ruffians and rugby (rugger) is a game for ruffians played by gentlemen."

Anyway, in regards to the nomenclature controversy, my personal belief is that soccer will never be called football in North America because that name is already very firmly taken by a large number of giant guys in heavy body armour. And football will never be called soccer in the rest of the world because you don't play it in your socks.