So why isn't it defencing on the other side of the pond? I found a bunch of sites with UK extensions in the URL which had defensing. Also I found several sites with the c which had things like "defencing and attacking". Seems to me that all defencing or defensing do as opposed to defending is to go one more step towards shitty English.

But I guess sports English is to English like gullah is to English. Have at it, folks, and when you get to the point where no one understands what the other person means then perhaps some few of you will go back to some plain common-sense rules.

Still don't see any reason to verb a noun when the ver already exists. grumble, mumble, fade to silence.

TEd