Re: Rugby or Association?

John Cowan wrote:

>Michael Poxon scripsit:
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>>There's a famous case of the
>>well-known footballer Paul Gascoigne
>>up before the judge, who on being told Gascoigne's vocation, asked "Rugger
>>or Association?"
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>As an iggerant Yank, I don't get the joke, unless it's simply that
>no reasonable person would fail to know the answer in the case of this
>particular football player.  You do still have two kinds of football
>over there, don't you?
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Yes, but you only call one of them 'footballers'.   There's Association
Football and Rugby Football(which, in turn, is divided between two sets
of rules - Rugby League and Rugby Union), true, but  only the former is
ever called 'football', the latter simply 'Rugby'.

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