Comments on: You’re Saying it Wrong! Sporting Lisbon, Inter Milan, and Other Incorrect Names That Drive Football Fans Crazy

By: keke

keke — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:32:10 +0000

on the AC Milan issue (and the ManU FC example):
When you’re referring to “the FC” in Germany, everyone knows you’re talking about Cologne, just as “the Club” is a synonym for Nuremberg.
Doesn’t mean that it’s ok for Milan, though.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:06:48 +0000

@ Paul: Here, here! That’s my main pet peeve too. Refusing to call our team Athletic (or Athletic Bilbao, Athletic Club etc) is reminiscent of the Franco era when we were forced to change it into Atlético de Bilbao. :/

Athletic Club de Bilbao or even Athletic de Bilbao is just fine as that’s what it is in Spanish. But it’s the simply Bilbao that annoys me so much.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:58:18 +0000

Another one that gets messed up a lot is Athletic Club Bilbao. I have seen them called “Athletic de Bilbao”, “Athletic Club de Bilbao”, or “Bilbao”. They are only to be called Athletic Club Bilbao, Athletic Club, or Athletic!!!!!

By: Francesco

Francesco — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:37:44 +0000

Oh man how I hate when people ask me what club I support and I say “Milan” and they say “Inter or AC?”.

By: Kara

Kara — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:05:07 +0000

DC United also follows the Washington habit of having team names relating to the fact it’s the Capitol of the US – like the Washington Freedom (women’s soccer), Nationals (baseball), Senators (former baseball), and Capitols (ice hockey).

By: g

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:05 +0000

HAMBURG IST SCHWARZ-WEIß-BLAU
SCHEIß SANKT PAULI
Nie wieder erstklassig!

By: Weston

Weston — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:35:24 +0000

@Chris
“Funny, I wasn’t aware there were multiple other Serie A’s or La Liga’s.”
isnt the official term for the brazilian league serie a, or is that the wrong one?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:04:52 +0000

I’m surprised the Old Firm clubs weren’t included on the list. It’s fairly common to see “Glasgow Rangers” or “Glasgow Celtic”, although they’re just Rangers F.C. and Celtic F.C.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:25:56 +0000

Taylor, I love all that stuff. When I was a kid, from a LFC family, I thought that Anfield rather than Old Trafford deserved to be the Theatre of Dreams! But then no one else has The Kop so we make do ;-) .

I thought The Trotters for Bolton was very funny until I made the wanderers connection. And for the longest time I imagined that the Tyne-Wear Derby had something to do with table settings rather than rivers (???).

By: MAD

MAD — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:44:09 +0000

I have no idea if Daryl is still paying attention to this thread but I just wanted to say thanks for changing the banner on the Inter page to reflect the actual name of the team.