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Soccer. ..F*** No. Why not many in N.A. give much of a sh**
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Have you tried trashing your preferences?
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World football is a lot more interesting than American “football.”
But then so is Basketball, Lacrosse, bike racing, and any number of other sports.
The only sports more boring than American “football,” are baseball (by a slight margin) and golf.
I did find American “football” interesting in a communal kind of way for about a day last season… (I live near Seattle). 🙂
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I agree that American sports are more willing to change and evolve over time to make things more exciting for the viewer – the 3 point line and 24 sec. clock in the NBA are prime examples. The NFL has changed radically over the decades and the days of leather helmets, laterals and sweeps.
I think for American’s, we’re used to seeing breakout plays where such as interceptions run back for touchdowns, stolen balls leading to slam dunks etc. None of this exists in soccer due to the ancient offside rule. I know, it’s tradition, but it’s really dumb. Could you imagine every time Blake Griffin was running a fast break he’d have to wait for a defender to get back before he could catch the ball and dunk it? The silly thing is there’s a full-time goalie! How can you penalize me on a breakaway when I know there’s always a goalie waiting to try and stop me?
The other insanely lame soccer rule is substitutions. Why can’t players come and go as needed like every other sport? Limiting the amount of subs makes no sense.
I’m thinking of running for world leader… I promise, if you vote for me, I’ll fix soccer and make sure all NLE’s have tracks and audio mixers!
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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Does the fact that it’s called the WORLD Cup mean anything?
It’s the single biggest sport on the planet…by a looooong way.
Can I help it if you just don’t ‘get’ it.
…Go ahead, do your worst.
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BTW it’s called FOOTBALL.
…you know, cause you play it with a BALL and you kick it with your FOOT. . . .ahem!
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Perhaps if we stopped the game every few minutes for an ad break it would make it faster.
Steve Connor
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See, all the Footiephiles in this brilliant and intelligent thread prefer to attack American sports for what they perceive as their slowness. They don’t get that things like commercial breaks are beloved by the vast majority of us. Especially the ones that slip through the Loudness Act and tickle our ear drums.
What they prefer to ignore is the main thrust of the complaint: the gross injustices committed by blind and location challenged referees that change the outcomes of so many important soccer games. It’s clear that no one outside fortress North America cares about faulty vision or injustice. If they did they would surely take musket in hand and overthrow the corrupt monarchy of FIFA and establish a new republic, a shining beacon of vision that has at least 3 referees on the field and allows 2 manager’s challenges with video review. Until that happy day I vote that our children not be allowed to play the game until they sign an oath to reject it at puberty, as I, and all sane North Americans have done.
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FIFA have finally allowed goal line technology to be used in this World Cup. A bold step forward into the modern era.
As for the refereeing…Well I guess we just have to keep on putting up with the odd injustice…
…a bit like American foreign policy really.
(will that be taken as a joke?)
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[David Cherniack] “If they did they would surely take musket in hand and overthrow the corrupt monarchy of FIFA and establish a new republic, a shining beacon of vision that has at least 3 referees on the field and allows 2 manager’s challenges with video review.”
I would generally agree with that
Steve Connor
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Sorry but I just don’t see this kind of skill in any other sport…
…mmm Basketball…maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7mXGMcpA0g
Alex Hawkins
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