Preview: For those reading this (and that'd be you right now), this post is about more
than semantics in calling our sport "soccer" instead of "football". It is about defining our own
history with the sport and our own identity within the global game.
In the last few weeks we've been reading David Wangerin's (author of "Soccer in a Football World")
"Distant Corners" which chronicles the emergence of soccer in the United States.
ASFORDBY VILLAGE 0-3 GLENFIELD TOWN Saturday 1st October 2011 Leicestershire Intermediate
Cup 1st Round Parish Hall Ground, Main Street, Asfordby source: official website
Despite Oadby Town having a home game against Ibstock United I decided to give it a miss this
afternoon and take in a game in a 1st round tie of one of the Leicestershire & Rutland county cups.
ASFORDBY VILLAGE 0-3 GLENFIELD TOWN Saturday 1st October 2011 Leicestershire Intermediate
Cup 1st Round Parish Hall Ground, Main Street, Asfordby source: official website
Despite Oadby Town having a home game against Ibstock United I decided to give it a miss this
afternoon and take in a game in a 1st round tie of one of the Leicestershire & Rutland county cups.