Early sports fans used both "football" and "soccer" for the same game.

There are a small number of countries that still use the word soccer, with most of the world preferring football especially across Europe, Africa and South America

The 2009 drama follows Clough's disastrous 44-day spell as Leeds United manager in 1974. Michael Sheen is remarkable as Clough, capturing the charisma, stubbornness and force of nature that made him both brilliant and controversial.

The word ‘soccer’ remains at the heart of one of the most enduring, if comparatively low-key and petty fronts of the culture war. At its most basic level, it’s a transatlantic disagreement over language, but there seems to be more to it than that.

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare had no idea that those same words would apply to one of today’s ongoing terminology rivalries stretching across the Atlantic – the debate of association football versus soccer.