[lesbolove]

football to americans is american football -shortened, football to the welsh is rugby football - shortened...and aussie rules, and so on. This is itself confirms that these other cultures have already differentiated their sport from that of original football, therefore they are already acknowledging that they have named their versions after the one and only - so they will never have a leg to stand on in the 'real football' stakes -
...however, my point is that now these other versions have become accepted as forms of football -even though the games are totally different (none of which actually use ball-to-foot skills as an integral part of the game -except one), so should there be a universal name change. If someone told you to change football to soccer, you wouldn't do it - should these other versions accept the same conditions -they wouldnt do it either -football is football to them too. They are, of course, wrong but at least should acknowledge that soccer is the one and only, worldwide accepted, real and only game that is football.