We are one people, divided by a common language...
My only surprize is issue being taken with 'starting-eleven' - due to substitutions, the players change during the game, but there will still be eleven on the field, at the end. And the NFL uses 'starting' all the time...Not quite sure what other expression would describe it so succinctly?...
Anyway, here's some favorite US soccerisms, that generally aren't heard elsewhere... 'In the six', 'on frame', 'winningest', 'apex-restarts', 'upper-90', 'transfers and completes', 'riding pine,' 'goaltender', 'corner-markers'...
And how could we forget, from 2013, the BBC News website describing baseball as 'cricket for Americans'....
