Soccer Is Fucking Gay
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2 changes for professional football/soccer:
Retroactive red cards - Anyone found diving will be given an automatic red card with a minimum 1 game suspension upon video review of the game. No pro-player would risk the suspension.
Instant replay review on critical calls - Fouls resulting in scoring opportunities, offsides on goals, red cards, ect. Not perfect, but would stop a lot of the bullshit calls and dives.
Too bad FIFA would never instate this. They're a bunch of corrupt assholes.
Retroactive red cards - Anyone found diving will be given an automatic red card with a minimum 1 game suspension upon video review of the game. No pro-player would risk the suspension.
Instant replay review on critical calls - Fouls resulting in scoring opportunities, offsides on goals, red cards, ect. Not perfect, but would stop a lot of the bullshit calls and dives.
Too bad FIFA would never instate this. They're a bunch of corrupt assholes.
I think blatant offsides would suck.
But I think if they instituted a 2 or 3 yard threshhold for offsides, the games would be much more fun to watch because of the higher scoring. There are too many questionable calls by the refs who are ruining potential plays
dont maker your decision on the Italy/Slovakia game dude lol. those teams are boring as shit to watch
All in all, this World Cup has SUCKED thus far. But it will get better and there will be better games.
Your post will never change anyone's opinion, just entice them into an argument.
Who the fuck wastes that much time writing a thread?! I'd of out sourced that much typing..
Who the fuck wastes that much time writing a thread?! I'd of out sourced that much typing..
100 million US viewers of the World Cup 2006 Football matches. Expecting an increase this year, as they do every WC.
The most supporters who've travelled to South Africa to watch (some 40k) second only to the host nation in numbers.
Yeah, no one gives a shit about "soccer" in the US
The most supporters who've travelled to South Africa to watch (some 40k) second only to the host nation in numbers.
Yeah, no one gives a shit about "soccer" in the US
Sadly not, offsides do serve a useful purpose and believe it or not it results in lower scoring games. Before the rule was implemented, the game often descended into something resembling ping-pong, where teams would hit it aimlessly long in the hope it found a man. It meant everyone had to ridiculously defend deep (close to their on goal line) and there was little incentive to push forward because you'd be undone by a long kick up field.
It also adds the element of excitement when a skillful, defense-splitting pass is made that is picked up by a nippy striker who goes 1-on-1.
If you ever (and I doubt if you're from the US you ever have) played football in the school playground you'll recall 'goal hangers'- annoying kids who were shit but stood next to the goal in the hope a loose ball found them that they could tap in. That's basically what the game can be like without offsides.
I don't think I can reply properly to everyone but I'll skim through this. Oh and before I do keep in mind I never said I hated the actual sport - I said it was gay because of x x x...I think it can be great if they fix a lot of these issues. I dunno if all the other haters think like this I'm just speaking for myself here...ok here we go.
I don't normally watch it...only reason I turned it on was because a friend who's at work asked me to let him know what the score is at final since there was only about 10 minutes left. I was near the tv so I was like ok wtf and turned it on. Only time I will watch it is if Poland is in it (that's where I was born)...kinda like all the Americans who never watch hockey tuning into the Olympic gold game.
Never watched a full game of NFL in my life so yeah, that's not why I'm hating. As a matter of fact I think football is pretty gay too ( OH SNAP now I pissed off all my supporters in this thread, ok it's in no way gay like soccer I just can't stand all the time in between plays, kinda like baseball. But let's forget about this and not turn it into a football thread
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^THIS...only time there's any high scoring it's usually a really strong team vs. a shitty team...GET MORE GOALS in the game. You don't have to take the skill away, simply change the rules up a bit to allow for more scoring. We'll get to that shortly...
Uhh too much to reply to, just some quick points:
1) Didn't know they started giving out cards for that - they should give them out more often. Still the time isn't adjusted accordingly, it's like a rough estimate or whatever.
2) gay, but you know this already.
3) I'll get to that below...I think.
Rage already answered this - it works in hockey too. Your point is not valid because I said to get those fuckers off the field. If you had to sit out to "recover" from your "injury" for 20 min you wouldn't have everyone rolling around on the field every 2 minutes now would you?
1) again sorry didn't realize this, they obviously don't call it enough because the players aren't too deterred to do it.
2) Shorten the time to 60 min and your problem is solved. Injuries - get the fucker off the field for 20 min or X amount of time, problem solved
3) Yeah umm something along NHL offsides would be better...you'd get more break aways, more goals, more action
I watch when Poland plays.
Oh and umm I forgot bizzykehl - icing is not stupid, there's consequences for icing the puck - face off in your zone, you can't do a line change. As a matter of fact they should put something similar in soccer so you can't just keep kicking the ball all the way down which causes the majority of the boring back and forth play. I don't know how you'd do this exactly and I never said I had all the answers but it's something that should be looked at. And umm, they do have off-sides in hockey just fyi...k I'm done for now.
I don't normally watch it...only reason I turned it on was because a friend who's at work asked me to let him know what the score is at final since there was only about 10 minutes left. I was near the tv so I was like ok wtf and turned it on. Only time I will watch it is if Poland is in it (that's where I was born)...kinda like all the Americans who never watch hockey tuning into the Olympic gold game.
Never watched a full game of NFL in my life so yeah, that's not why I'm hating. As a matter of fact I think football is pretty gay too ( OH SNAP now I pissed off all my supporters in this thread, ok it's in no way gay like soccer I just can't stand all the time in between plays, kinda like baseball. But let's forget about this and not turn it into a football thread
)^THIS...only time there's any high scoring it's usually a really strong team vs. a shitty team...GET MORE GOALS in the game. You don't have to take the skill away, simply change the rules up a bit to allow for more scoring. We'll get to that shortly...
Uhh too much to reply to, just some quick points:
1) Didn't know they started giving out cards for that - they should give them out more often. Still the time isn't adjusted accordingly, it's like a rough estimate or whatever.
2) gay, but you know this already.
3) I'll get to that below...I think.
Rage already answered this - it works in hockey too. Your point is not valid because I said to get those fuckers off the field. If you had to sit out to "recover" from your "injury" for 20 min you wouldn't have everyone rolling around on the field every 2 minutes now would you?
1) again sorry didn't realize this, they obviously don't call it enough because the players aren't too deterred to do it.
2) Shorten the time to 60 min and your problem is solved. Injuries - get the fucker off the field for 20 min or X amount of time, problem solved
3) Yeah umm something along NHL offsides would be better...you'd get more break aways, more goals, more action
I watch when Poland plays.
Oh and umm I forgot bizzykehl - icing is not stupid, there's consequences for icing the puck - face off in your zone, you can't do a line change. As a matter of fact they should put something similar in soccer so you can't just keep kicking the ball all the way down which causes the majority of the boring back and forth play. I don't know how you'd do this exactly and I never said I had all the answers but it's something that should be looked at. And umm, they do have off-sides in hockey just fyi...k I'm done for now.
I have to say, I agree with the points on diving, retrospective cards etc. The game does need to be cleaned up a lot at the top of the sport.
Henry's handball denying Ireland being a case in point.
But as we've said, it's very difficult to do without taking away the free flowing nature of the game. Diving etc however should certainly be dealt with by after-match video analysis.
Henry's handball denying Ireland being a case in point.
But as we've said, it's very difficult to do without taking away the free flowing nature of the game. Diving etc however should certainly be dealt with by after-match video analysis.
Team sports need high-scoring outcomes to get the interest of us Americans. Either that or fights. We love seeing fights. So, here's what it boils down to. We want to see men either score high or fight. Or both. A high-scoring fight club would be great. That said, soccer is definitely not gay.*
* Nope. It's gay.
* Nope. It's gay.
Alright, you've figured it out. The World Cup is basically just a world wide gay pride event disguised as a sporting spectacle.
Even in England we just go to sing songs to each other:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_rf2jVxxY"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
(^real Tottenham Hotspur fans)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCBfEg_bDk"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
Soccer...great athletes, supremely gay.
Soccer...great athletes, supremely gay.
Many of you "soccer haters" won't change your mind but...
You definitely aren't the voice of America. On ESPN/Univision, the American audience for USA/Algeria was 8.6 million; just remember that it was shown on the morning of a weekday and most people would have been watching it in bars. Not to mention that the USA supporters have bought more tickets than any other country for the World Cup.
You definitely aren't the voice of America. On ESPN/Univision, the American audience for USA/Algeria was 8.6 million; just remember that it was shown on the morning of a weekday and most people would have been watching it in bars. Not to mention that the USA supporters have bought more tickets than any other country for the World Cup.
Would be cool if they could issue Red Cards after watching replays that show no contact and crazy falling down and pretending to be hurt.
Maybe that would stop the silliness
Maybe that would stop the silliness
Yes. You are correct. Here's my theory:
Most of America tuned in for one reason, and one reason only. Our press has covered the vuvuzela horns ad nauseum. I am convinced nine of ten viewers mistook the vuvuzela for the vulva. Hence, their attention.
To say they are disappointed is an understatement.
They won't even acknowledge these points man as they don't fit their hate agenda.