It's soccer in Australia and South Africa too, because rugby is our 'football' (more's the pity). It's short for "association football" BTW, and adding an -er is a very British English thing to do though it's usually -ers, like brekkers or preggers.

Yeah, I didn't get that either. It was almost as bad as human emotion stopping that Dalek bomb. This is why DW is more fantasy than SF to me; there's not a lot of logic. Eleven was so much fun though and really looked like he was enjoying himself. If they hadn't killed so many people (I hoped for most of the ep that they were all still alive) it would have been even better. I'm tempted to make an Eleven soccer icon.