THE ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL: man utd is the greatest team on earth

THE ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL: man utd is the greatest team on earth: Manchester United                                                         A historic team known all over the world. Most peopl...

Rooney shows why he is most important player

Wayne Rooney gave an almost perfect performance for United against  City and showed just why he, rather than Robin van Persie, is the one player you would always want in your team. Van Persie has been a fantastic addition to the United team and he showed that again with his late winner at the Etihad, but his goals are really the icing on the cake. In terms of which player United need most, though, I would say it is Rooney every time because he offers as much at right back as he does at right wing and as a centre forward. When you are sat in the dressing-room and your best player is also the hardest worker, it lifts everybody and gives something extra to everybody else.  It is a strange situation with Rooney, though, because regardless of how good a player he is, he keeps on having to answer questions about his form, his contribution and other aspects of his game. Maybe people just look at him from an England perspective and put his United performances to one side. But I have never been one of those who believed that Rooney was on the wane or that he was no longer the most important player at Old Trafford. If you offered me all of the top players in the Premier League, all of the top foreign imports, I would still put Rooney ahead of them. 

 

The Origin of Football 

Who would have known that the ancient Greek Gods invented football? Once upon a time, on the grassy main lands of Olympus, the gods had just finished eating their daily meal of pork and bud light. They had pork every day, except on Monday, where they had the Taco Bell 1$ special. Every day, except on Monday, the gods threw out the pigskin from the pork. And every day, Athena was disgusted. She thought that the gods were wasting valuable material. She wanted to find a way to put the pigskin to good use. She asked Hermes, her brother for help. They thought for 72 days and 72 nights, without eating, drinking, sleeping or bathing. On the night of the 72nd day, Hermes had an idea. The pigskin would be used to make footballs-oval shaped balls with laces. For another 40 days and 40 nights, without eating, drinking, sleeping or bathing, they thought about what to do with the football. This time, Athena had an idea. She thought that there would be two “goals,” called end-zones. There would be teams of eleven, and each team would have a player throwing the ball, and other players trying to catch it and bring it to the end-zone. Athena and Hermes proposed their idea to the other 10 Olympians. There then was a vote. It was unanimous, all the Olympians wanted to play football. From then on, after the Olympians’ daily meal of pork and bud light, they had a 6 on 6 game of football. Every year, during the month of February, there was a pro bowl (sort of like an all-star game). It was a 3 on 3, with only the beast Olympians. Demeter wasn’t in the pro bowl because she couldn’t catch a ball for her immortal life. Dionysus, Apollo, and Artemis weren’t in the pro bowl because at that time of the year, they were on earth looking for followers. Ares wasn’t in the pro bowl because if he lost, he would throw a huge temper tantrum. From then on, no pigskins were wasted, instead, they were made into footballs. This is believed to be the origin of the saying: “you wanna toss the ol’ pigskin around?”    the first ball on earth compare the two evolutions  worldcup 2010 The Origin of the Word “Soccer” Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”.  For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”. In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years.  This happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”. In the 1860s, as in most of history with records as far back as 1004 B.C., there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England.   Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches.  They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”. Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common.  They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames.  Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”.  Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”. The inventor of the nickname is said to be Charles Wredford Brown, who was an Oxford student around the time of Association Football’s inception.  Legend has it, in 1863 shortly after the creation of Association Football, Wredford-Brown had some friends who asked him if he’d come play a game of “Rugger”, to which he replied he preferred “Soccer”.  The name caught on from there. In the beginning, the newly standardized Rugby and Soccer were football sports for “gentlemen”, primarily being played by the upper echelons of society.  However, these two forms of football gradually spread to the masses, particularly Soccer as Rugby didn’t really catch on too well with the lower classes.  This resulted in the name switching from “Soccer” and “Association Football”, to just “Football”; with the first documented case of the sport being called by the singular term “Football” coming in 1881, 18 years after it was first called simply “Soccer” or officially “Association Football”. This game then gradually spread throughout the world under the lower class name of “Football”, rather than “Soccer” as the “gentlemen” called it.  The problem was though, that a lot of other countries of the world already had popular sports of their own they called “Football”, such as the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, to name a few.  In these countries, the name “Soccer” was and, in some,  still is preferred for this reasons

man utd is the greatest team on earth

Manchester United

    

                                                 

A historic team known all over the world. Most people can name more united players than they can distant relatives. With the current era under sir Alex being seamlessly never ending they have every right to claim themselves the best football team in the world. No other club is hated by all fans of all teams outside of it.+61

• Man utd is the greatest football club in the whole world judging from their performance so far in England and abroad. With 19 title to their credit I think they worth it. 

Look - I like Manchester City and have done for over 10 years. But even I have to admit that Manchester United is the best football team of all time. Seriously, what's with these others choices? Manchester United have consistently had one of the best teams year after year. And some of the greatest players ever have played for them: David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Peter Schmeichel, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney, Bobby Charlton, George Best, etc. Etc. All of these players are superb and all of them had their greatest seasons at United. Come on now... I think the only real rival to United is Barcelona and possibly Real Madrid.

They are the most Successful team in the Premiership, Liverpool have never won the premiership before, Arsenal have attractive football but sometimes waste important chances, Chelsea needed a Billionaire to get where they are now, I think we are the best attacking team in the world only Barcelona comes close, with are front 3 as Tevez Ronaldo and Rooney they are world class plus they are all still young, Henry Ronaldiniho and Messi are great but Henry and Ronaldiniho wont be around for 2 long, anyway Cristiano Ronaldo has proven that he has matured and become the greatest player in the world, we are the best thats just the way it is


+6Man United is the best team with the best players. It is a great quality of players to be in the team. Known legends such as Bobby Charlton, George Best, Peter Schmeichel, Edwin Van Der Sar, Paul Scholes, Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs, Denis Law, David Beckham, Roy Keane, and Ruud Van Nistelrooy is trained in Man United FC and is to be the greatest players of all times. So with no doubt, Manchester United will win the next BPL season, Champions League, FA Cup, and the Carling Cup great quality of players. Glory, Glory, Man United. Your fan, Josh in Jakarta, wishing that.

+2No other club comes close, period. They had the best 90's squad and have had some big names associated with them. Matt busby, Alex Ferguson, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Peter Schmeichel (best goalkeeper EVER) and Wayne Rooney just to name some. The derby game with Manchester City is always unbeatable as are games with Liverpool, there's nothing as intense as a game with one of those clubs especially if United are at home. Their trophy record speaks for itself and Manchester United should be at number one where they truly belong. The three clubs above United.. Do me a favour.