Weirdy Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 May I partially hijack this thread? I use to love soccer, but in the last few years or so, I have grown to hate it, primarily because of all the fake 'dives' that occur in the game, and players feigning injury to get penalties, or to make an opposing player incur a card, and so on. It has really put me off the game I once enjoyed. Acting is for the movies, the theatre and professional wrestling (not that wrestling is bad, I quite like it lol). Acting is not for sport. What do you guys think about this? Also, it is very hard to appreciate soccer in Australia, I believe, because we have a sport that is the total opposite of soccer - Australian Rules Football. It is fast, high scoring, and can be blatantly brutal at times. It is very popular.Maybe, but I hate it. In fact I hate every code of football that isn't 'soccer'. Let's see why:Rugby League: VERY little kicking involved, mainly it involves running a yard, getting tackled, getting up then running again. Only kicks are after the 5th tackle; even then they usually only bunt it.Rugby Union: Same as league, only more violentAFL: Same as Rugby league only in shorter shorts. Okay, there's actually a fair bit more kicking involved but still way too much hand contact on the ballAmerican Football: Very much the same as league, only you can throw FORWARDS as well, making it even less skillfull and even more about running into the other player These codes should NOT be called football. If anything they should be called 'handball with a little kicking involved'!!! The reason I like soccer is that it is athletic and skillful, it requires people trying to outmanouvre the other person, not just land on top of him.That said, the recent epidemic of 'dive taking' and 'fake injuries' really does harm the sport, I agree. Such a thing is against the spirit of fair play sports are based on. Besides, though I mock the other codes, it's alot harder to get a foul playing them, THAT'S for sure. I agree though it's also funny when watching american football. If you compare the college players with the NFL players, you'll see that the NFL players hit like little b!tches compared to the college guys who will kill anyone who comes right in front of them. I guess it's cause they don't wanna injure star players so they can do advertisements and stupid sh!t like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jjangthekid Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 ...um.. go KOREA !! WOOT! beingl ike the last to ending in 4th place. hel* yea!! imo Bastard! ... dont be hatin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 I use to love soccer, but in the last few years or so, I have grown to hate it, primarily because of all the fake 'dives' that occur in the game, and players feigning injury to get penalties, or to make an opposing player incur a card, and so on. It has really put me off the game I once enjoyed.You just identified Robero of the Montreal Canadians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain FuKu Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 America sucks at soccer cuz here it's all about football -- mostly. Just like America gets owned by the Japanese in every fighting game except MvC2 cuz that's all they seriously play. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerx Posted June 17, 2004 Author Share Posted June 17, 2004 (edited) ...um.. go KOREA !! WOOT! beingl ike the last to ending in 4th place. hel* yea!! imo Bastard! ... dont be hatin. I suffered too much that time, it wasn't right, i just wanted to get all lg's electronic and crashed, they needed Korea to pass the to the semi cause all the money that was given to Fifa, you'll see that Portugal will pass to the next cause they are the host of the eurocup and they have invested a lot of money, mark my words, Fifa is corrupted, i hope i'm wrong. Edited June 17, 2004 by lancerx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.S.D Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Well, it's Euro fever in our country also, although we are not even in Europe Let just say our country's football leave a lot to be desired And yeah, I do enjoy NBA and NFL and Rugby too.The only sport that is the most boring Americans can think of is baseball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 (edited) I only enjoy sports that's in digital form and even at that, I'm not loving it. Edited June 17, 2004 by Agozer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 LOL yeah, a friend at wrok was really depressed yesterday, he oculdn`t believe it, he was also angry because in the newspapers after the match they were stilll saying Spain had gr8 chances of being champion, btw which part of Spain are you from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerx Posted June 17, 2004 Author Share Posted June 17, 2004 LOL yeah, a friend at wrok was really depressed yesterday, he oculdn`t believe it, he was also angry because in the newspapers after the match they were stilll saying Spain had gr8 chances of being champion, btw which part of Spain are you from?Seville, south. btw, i like your avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 yeah me too lolSeville, cool. I am looking forward to og to Spain for a while, just need to save some more money, i would like to visit the place where my grandfather was born but i think i would prefer the south for living, anyway since i don`t know much any place owul be cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I think some of you may like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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