What is the difference between football, soccer and rugby??

Question

or.....

is der any diff in between football, soccer n rugby???

n plus wats da diff btwn snookern billiards??

Answer 1

The difference between the 2 is that soccer uses ur feet and you kick a ball and run...... football is when you catch a ball and you try to make a touchdown..... i don't know about rugby......

Answer 2

going to school in Birmingham in the early 80's we always called football "soccer".

i can remember every breaktime running out to the playground shouting "soccer" in our brummie accents after being in lessons all morning, anyone who called it football would have been thought of as posh and would have been called a puff

also in the late 70;s Bob Wilson, former Arsenal keeper, presented a programme on bbc called "soccer"

so it baffles me when years later there is a nationwide obsession with hating the word soccer and claiming only the americans ever used it

Answer 3

"Soccer" is the American word for what the English call "football" (Spanish "futbol," German "fussball").  In soccer, only the goalkeepers may pick up the ball with their hands, there is no grabbing of opposing players, and points are scored by driving the ball into a rectangular goal.

In "rubgy" players may pick up the ball and run with it, the ball carrier may be tackled by the opposing team, and points are scored by touching the ball beyond the goal line, or by kicking the ball between two upright posts.  The ball may be thrown sideways or backwards, but never forward.  Players may not interfere with other players trying to tackle the ball carrier.

In (American) football, the ball is carried with the hands, and may be advanced by running with the ball or throwing it forward.  When the ball carrier is tackled, or a forward pass is not caught, play stops and each side regroups before the next play.  Players may impede defenders in front of the ball carrier in order to prevent a tackle ("blocking").  Points are scored by advancing the ball past the end line, either by carrying it or catching it, or by kicking it between two upright posts.

I'm not positive, but I think snooker and billiards are the same thing.

Answer 4

American football:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_fo...

Football (EUR) / Soccer (US):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer

Rugby:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_footb...

Also:

Snooker:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker

Billiards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiards