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Hey Euros a question about football. Why do teams always have

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Hey Euros a question about football.

Why do teams always have names like FC or United? Why don't football teams have names like in other leagues after animals or other people - i.e the Chicago cubs or Pittsburgh Pirates?
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You forgot to put on your US flag proxy before you started shitposting.
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>>74179823
because we're not children and our clubs were usually founded in the late 19th century or early 20th century
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>London Lions
>Manchester Mayhem
>Liverpool Lightning
>Barcelona Beasts
>Madrid Madness

Do you see whats wrong with this?
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>>74179872
the chicago cubs were founded in 1876, hans
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>>74179823
Quite a few old rugby teams have names like that.
Harlequins
Saracens
Leicester Tigers
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We have a lot of those.

Ajax, Go Ahead Eagles, Sparta Rotterdam, Vitesse, Excelsior and some others.
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>>74179857

dumb burger doesn't know Aussie teams use childish animal names too
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>>74179823
London Sarracens
Leicester Tigers
Sale Sharks
Northampton Saints
Exeter Chiefs
London Harlequins
Newcastle Falcons
London Wasps
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Americans and Australians actually copied off of old footy naming conventions.
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>>74179823
how come american teams can leave their town? who do you support if your team moves hundreds of miles away?
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>>74180336
>London Wasps are now Coventry Wasps
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>>74179823
Because we're not children.

>>74180297
That's rugby, he asked about football m8
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