Soccer: What a Fukkin' Joke

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Soccer is more boring than baseball.
College football and hockey are the only entertaining sports.

Hockey moves too quickly and the puck is too small. Without the light on the goal, most people would never be able to tell anyone scored!

 

[rightwinger]

Soccer is more boring than baseball.
College football and hockey are the only entertaining sports.

Hockey moves too quickly and the puck is too small. Without the light on the goal, most people would never be able to tell anyone scored!

To me, hockey is like that magicians shell game where you try to follow where the pea is

Now, try to follow where the little ball is

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

this thread: another episode of Old man yells at cloud.

 

[22lcidw]

Excuse me, I suppose I should call it foot-ball, like the rest of the world does.

At highly anticipated Barcelona-Real Madrid soccer match, riot police and protesters clash outside

Here we have the most exciting foot-ball match of the season - Real Madrid vs. Barcelona - hundreds of millions watching on the telly, a hundred thousand paying customers in the stadium, a couple hundred thousand outside (doing some political stuff, but...), and was what the result?????\

0 - 0.

What other sport would TOLERATE such an important contest resulting in...NO RESULT AT ALL???

Let them use their ******* HANDS, for Christ sake! Make it a real sport!

Tangent: Am I on to something here? Maybe we Americans can call Soccer "Foot-Ball," with a hyphen, and at least we will know what we are writing about.

If rule changes were instituted to make a lot of say 7-5 games that would bring a lot of excitement into the game. It seems to be a game of mistakes like a chess match with evenly matched teams. You may get a few to several exciting plays a game. But to many 0-0 games and then decided by a shoot out takes away from it. And you must be an actor to play. The audience it plays to seems to like it. They kill each other over it.

 

[rightwinger]

Excuse me, I suppose I should call it foot-ball, like the rest of the world does.

At highly anticipated Barcelona-Real Madrid soccer match, riot police and protesters clash outside

Here we have the most exciting foot-ball match of the season - Real Madrid vs. Barcelona - hundreds of millions watching on the telly, a hundred thousand paying customers in the stadium, a couple hundred thousand outside (doing some political stuff, but...), and was what the result?????\

0 - 0.

What other sport would TOLERATE such an important contest resulting in...NO RESULT AT ALL???

Let them use their ******* HANDS, for Christ sake! Make it a real sport!

Tangent: Am I on to something here? Maybe we Americans can call Soccer "Foot-Ball," with a hyphen, and at least we will know what we are writing about.

If rule changes were instituted to make a lot of say 7-5 games that would bring a lot of excitement into the game. It seems to be a game of mistakes like a chess match with evenly matched teams. You may get a few to several exciting plays a game. But to many 0-0 games and then decided by a shoot out takes away from it. And you must be an actor to play. The audience it plays to seems to like it. They kill each other over it.

Soccer is played too much like a chess match
Playing not to lose rather than to win

Makes for boring play and few shots on goal

 

[22lcidw]

Excuse me, I suppose I should call it foot-ball, like the rest of the world does.

At highly anticipated Barcelona-Real Madrid soccer match, riot police and protesters clash outside

Here we have the most exciting foot-ball match of the season - Real Madrid vs. Barcelona - hundreds of millions watching on the telly, a hundred thousand paying customers in the stadium, a couple hundred thousand outside (doing some political stuff, but...), and was what the result?????\

0 - 0.

What other sport would TOLERATE such an important contest resulting in...NO RESULT AT ALL???

Let them use their ******* HANDS, for Christ sake! Make it a real sport!

Tangent: Am I on to something here? Maybe we Americans can call Soccer "Foot-Ball," with a hyphen, and at least we will know what we are writing about.

If rule changes were instituted to make a lot of say 7-5 games that would bring a lot of excitement into the game. It seems to be a game of mistakes like a chess match with evenly matched teams. You may get a few to several exciting plays a game. But to many 0-0 games and then decided by a shoot out takes away from it. And you must be an actor to play. The audience it plays to seems to like it. They kill each other over it.

Soccer is played too much like a chess match
Playing not to lose rather than to win

Makes for boring play and few shots on goal

What is good is that the two 45 minute halves keep moving and does not stop. Playing not to lose seems correct. If down a goal when does desperation play start? And can a team ramp it up after playing in a careful manner. Seems like a gentleman's game with flaws.