Joy wrote: <I get the impression that other countries don't give cutesy names to school sports teams.>
School teams, whether it been for rounders, netball, field hockey, football (soccer), rugby or cricket are usually just named after the school, eg the school I last taught were all just called "Heathfield". Boys tend to play soccer, rugby and cricket. Girls usually play rounders, netball and hockey. Girls soccer is growing as is boy's hockey. Both play tennis.
American football teams (both junior and senior), which aren't usually associated with a school but with a town or area, are given fancy names like Birmingham Bulls or Coventry Cassidy Jets. Adult professional football (soccer) teams usually have a name which associates them with a town, but might have another word added or even subtracted, eg the team which originated at the Woolwich Asenal is now know just as Arsenal, Sheffield has two teams - Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday (don't ask me the significance of Wednesday). The major professional cricket teams are associated with counties and known by the name of the county in which the town that has the team's main ground is situated eg the team located in Taunton is known by the county's name of Somerset. There are a lot of small, local amateur soccer and cricket teams, again known by their location. The members of those teams take it just as seriously as the professionals even though they usually only play at weekends.
Jean in Poole
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