Panamaned t1_iy3hbnf wrote on November 28, 2022 at 1:49 PM

Reply to comment by ksdkjlf in TIL that FIFA is a French abbreviation, it would be IFAF in English, and England weren't an original member despite creating the game. FIFA also now has more members than the UN by BXCellent

Thank you very much for your very informative comment. I am going to fall back on English being my third language which will enable me to justify to my self about just how wrong I was. Cheers.

ksdkjlf t1_iy4f9g9 wrote on November 28, 2022 at 5:54 PM

Ha, no worries. 99.99% of the time "association" is a noun, and it's rare to hear it referred to in full as "association football", so your confusion was understandable, even if you'd been a native English speaker. Hence my giving the rather drawn-out explanation, rather than simply leaving it at that first line :)