In the context of football, are 'match' and 'game' the same for you?

[yello]

But Cricket is 100% match, 0% game

Ditto.

Football though... neither 'football match' nor 'football game' give rise to the same feeling of right/wrong.

 

[yello]

If I was playing it's a game. If I was going to spectate more likely to say match

I like that distinction. Something for me to think about there. An active/passive thing.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

You can only use jumpers for goalposts at a football game, not at a match. HTH

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Can't beat a good existential debate on a foul claggy day...

I am in the match camp for pukka footy matches and more in the game camp for the Sunday Football with Long-suffering Girlfriends on the Sideline affairs.

 

[yello]

You can only use jumpers for goalposts at a football game, not at a match. HTH

You're getting close to my hinted at suspicion But it also plays to the active or participant v passive or spectator distinction.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Versatile word, Match.

Did you watch the match?
Have you got a match?
You're socks don't match.

How do foreigners ever learn this bloody language?

 

[T4tomo]

But Cricket is 100% match, 0% game.

"I saw a cricket match on telly" That's fine.

"I saw a cricket game on telly". That's weird. Maybe you saw some kind of game derived from cricket. Subbuteo Cricket or something like that.

Ah but if some catches you down the pub and say "oy Tomo you used to play, do you fancy a game of cricket on Saturday, Fat Harry has let us down..."

that would sound weird with "match", so maybe this whole thing about sentence construction and context.

 

[T4tomo]

Versatile word, Match.

Did you watch the match?
Have you got a match?
You're socks don't match.

How do foreigners ever learn this bloody language?

indeed you can't light a fire with a book of games....

 

[yello]

Can't beat a good existential debate on a foul claggy day...

Hey, it's what I do!

I am in the match camp for pukka footy matches and more in the game camp for the Sunday Football with Long-suffering Girlfriends on the Sideline affairs.

That's another interesting distinction. Are you a player in the Sunday league game? Or a spectator?

 

[yello]

that would sound weird with "match", so maybe this whole thing about sentence construction and context.

and different contexts praps being playing v watching??

 

[Sharky]

I have a similar confusion with my two sports...

With cycling, I used go out "training". But when I go to a table tennis session, it's "practice".

 

[yello]

Cool. I like it. Nope, you don't go to cycle 'pratice' That seems to invoke images of some kind of activity involving scoot-bikes and stabilisers!

 

[yello]

Darn me if I didn't go to soccer practice. I may well have, I can't be sure. I doubt my mum would remember either.

Edit: yup, just googling about, I quite likely did. So, for me, the game/match distinction may come from a cultural difference.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ah but if some catches you down the pub and say "oy Tomo you used to play, do you fancy a game of cricket on Saturday, Fat Harry has let us down..."

that would sound weird with "match", so maybe this whole thing about sentence construction and context.

Very good point. You have just destroyed my neat Cricket hypothesis. I hate you.

 

[Psamathe]

But Cricket is 100% match, 0% game.

"I saw a cricket match on telly" That's fine.

"I saw a cricket game on telly". That's weird. Maybe you saw some kind of game derived from cricket. Subbuteo Cricket or something like that.

Except, ever heard "match of cricket"? I'd always expect people to say "a game of cricket".