# Soccer season

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-season/305135
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 23, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-season/305135 "2005-05-23T18:55:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-season/305135/21 "2005-05-24T12:09:07Z")

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> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> According to [here](http://www.answers.com/topic/playoff), the system was abandoned before 1900.

Too bad **Owlstretchingtime** is not still about; he’d claim that was practically yesterday.

🙂

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### Author: ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-season/305135/22 "2005-05-24T12:11:46Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> Too bad **Owlstretchingtime** is not still about; he’d claim that was practically yesterday.

…and that it was all the fault of of Guardian readers…

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### Author: ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-season/305135/23 "2005-05-24T14:44:44Z")

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Hmm, well I had simply read it was the case. Maybe I dreamed the whole thing.

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