# Resolved: I fucking hate soccer! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453 "2010-07-03T19:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/221 "2010-07-07T20:36:53Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > I really don’t see why people are replying to this shite by slagging off other sports. > > The OP doesn’t like football and he’s being a loud fuckwit about it. Grand, fuck him. Slag him off for the way he seems to think he’s superior in some way because of it. > > Going after basketball, baseball or American football isn’t going to help. In fact it just turns the thread into a pissing match between sport fans. I couldn’t agree more! Sitting around trying to determine which sport is “better” is just plain stupid. No one is going to agree and there isn’t anything to compare anyway. The OP did nothing more than make a fool of himself. It really isn’t necessary to bring up any other sports in order to illustrate that the OP is a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/222 "2010-07-07T20:38:17Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Yes, I’ve seen similar in hockey. Guys who can flip a puck around at will. Luckily, you don’t see it much in play because some guy standing there fooling around like that would usually get flattened in short order. Rightly so, as it keeps the game moving rather than having to spend time excess time watching some showboat play keep away. If you really want to improve soccer introduce the shoulder check. Crap. Here we go again. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/223 "2010-07-07T21:32:12Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Seems odd the the millions (billions?) of people watching the World Cup would all be so masochistic as to watch such a “boring” game. I guess the word ‘compared’ threw you, huh? Playing ‘_ **compared** _’ to watching. Also, billions believe in a magical friend who will answer their personal prayers. Many of whom are praying right now that this being should take time out of its busy schedule and intervene on their behalf to make their favorite team will win. So, what is your point? It’s a game, people. And not a very good one. Get over it that some other people think it is lame when in the grand scheme of things it really is. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/224 "2010-07-07T21:38:44Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Get over it that some other people think it is lame when in the grand scheme of things it really is. Actually, most soccer fans i know have no problem with the notion that some people don’t like soccer. If you think it’s lame, that’s your prerogative. The only people i find really annoying are the ones who don’t stop at “Soccer is lame,” but who continue with “Soccer is lame, and needs to be changed in the following ways, which will completely change the game and annoy the billions of people who don’t think it’s lame.” ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/225 "2010-07-07T21:44:32Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > It’s a game, people. And not a very good one. Get over it that some other people think it is lame when in the grand scheme of things it really is. in a grand scheme of your own making, that exists only in your imagination, that makes sense only through your eyes. There are no objective criteria by which to pronounce a sport “good” or “bad” and to do so just makes one sound childish. However, we can use objective criteria to say how popular a sport is and make a judgement as how much pleasure those fans get from watching and playing. Guess what…football comes top of of the pile globally, you can’t argue against that although you are welcome to flap your mouth incredulously. There really isn’t anything else to add here. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/226 "2010-07-07T22:15:37Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Yes, I’ve seen similar in hockey. Guys who can flip a puck around at will. Luckily, you don’t see it much in play because some guy standing there fooling around like that would usually get flattened in short order. Rightly so, as it keeps the game moving rather than having to spend time excess time watching some showboat play keep away. If you really want to improve soccer introduce the shoulder check. Sigh. The players shown in the linked video were performing those skills even when world class defenders were trying to stop them by any means possible. They were showing great skill, which was kinda the fucking point of the video. You really struggle with the basics of sports don’t you? I wonder why this is? After all, I bet you “watch” lots of sports dont you? After all, you really think there has never been a shoulder check in football? ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/227 "2010-07-07T22:26:13Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > in a grand scheme of your own making, that exists only in your imagination, that makes sense only through your eyes. I don’t know how to answer this. I’m dumbfounded that someone thinks a sport, that they only watch, is somehow so important to their existence that they’d sacrifice other things for it. You’d miss your daughter’s graduation? A family dinner? Getting that kidney transplant? Where do you rank a game in this? It is a game! ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/228 "2010-07-07T22:47:02Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > I don’t know how to answer this. I’m dumbfounded that someone thinks a sport, that they only watch, is somehow so important to their existence that they’d sacrifice other things for it. You’d miss your daughter’s graduation? A family dinner? Getting that kidney transplant? Where do you rank a game in this? It is a game! 😕What on earth are you replying to here? I never suggested nor hinted that this or any sport is more important that any of the things mentioned above. I was saying that you are measuring the “lameness” of a sport by your own subjective criteria. Your own “grand scheme”. Others may make a different judgement. I think you are confusing the word “lame” with the word “important” and that’s an argument I’ve not made. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/229 "2010-07-07T22:50:16Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Sigh. Sigh. It is only a game. Don’t get your panties in a bunch over it. > [@](#): > > The players shown in the linked video were performing those skills even when world class defenders were trying to stop them by any means possible. They were showing great skill, which was kinda the fucking point of the video. I’m not knocking the skill, I could never conceivably do it. If anything, I’m knocking the showboating. Does it actually generate extra chances, or given the time being spent mucking about, does it allow the opposing team time to reposition their players? Most of the video seemed to end in no field position gained and the person kicking the ball out of scene for some random player to pick up. > [@](#): > > You really struggle with the basics of sports don’t you? I wonder why this is? After all, I bet you “watch” lots of sports dont you? I don’t watch any sports except for the occasional hockey. Why would I? What bearing on my life does it have if some guys who makes millions of dollars each win vs. another set of millionaires losing? Nor am I bitter that they make millions of dollars. More power to them that they can fleece people of their money by kicking a ball around. I’d be doing it if I was so gifted. But, I don’t give them any more credit than that or some sort of extra status because of it. > [@](#): > > After all, you really think there has never been a shoulder check in football? Legally? And that is just my opinion, btw. I could really care less that you watch the game, or that it stays the same. It just amazes me that people become so defensive over something so inconsequential. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/230 "2010-07-07T22:54:32Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > I could really care less that you watch the game. I think you mean “couldn’t care less” don’t you? it doesn’t make sense otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/231 "2010-07-07T23:35:20Z")
Probably more than anyone would care to know on the [subject](http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/232 "2010-07-08T00:26:50Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > I don’t watch any sports except for the occasional hockey. But you rant on about football, why? ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/233 "2010-07-08T01:28:21Z")
Because of all major sports it ranks as one of the most boring, but mostly I participated in this rant because of the stupid analogy put forward by **Tagos**. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/234 "2010-07-08T01:51:39Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > I…I don’t like football at all. I don’t like most sport. I’ve had to listen to people banging on about sport all my life and not caring about it. I just try to get by without much sport talk. I could be like the OP and start thinking I’m great because I’m not liking what other people do and so feel superior in some way but I don’t. > > I do love events though, so I look at most of the world cup as it’s much more than just sport. It’s countries coming together and competing… > > UP HOLLAND!!! I’ve never been a _serious_ sports fan, but I work with a group of people from all over. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed following the World Cup–pretty much for your reasons. One of my co-workers is an All-American Soccer Dad. After he heard us raving about the US making it out of group, he decided to watch the US/Ghana game–the first professional soccer game he’d ever watched all the way through. He really enjoyed it. He was truly impressed by the skills of the Ghanaian players. As a Soccer Dad, he _knows_ the rules of the game. But he’d only experienced the sport as a good way to give little kids some exercise. He has watched some of the later games & spoken with enthusiasm of the skills on display. However, I must disagree on one point: My work environment will be much happier if Spain wins! ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/235 "2010-07-08T07:26:25Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Probably more than anyone would care to know on the [subject](http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm). Thank you, ignorance fought. (for me at least) ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/236 "2010-07-08T10:38:45Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > If you really want to improve soccer introduce the shoulder check. Do you have some sort of disorder that compels you to ignore the fact that football fans don’t give a flying frack about ill-informed suggestions as to how to ‘improve’ the game? Quite besides the fact that football already has the ‘shoulder check’ - referred to by people not crippled by their own arrogance and know-nothing stupidity as the ‘shoulder charge’. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/237 "2010-07-08T12:15:05Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > Quite besides the fact that football already has the ‘shoulder check’ - referred to by people not crippled by their own arrogance and know-nothing stupidity as the ‘shoulder charge’. Looked that up. The fairy version of what happens in hockey quite in keeping with a sport that rewards flopping around like a fish. Sorry, not what I was referring to which if you knew anything about hockey, which was quite clearly mentioned in my comment, you’d have figured that out. A proper [shoulder check](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkba15Xctis) ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/238 "2010-07-08T12:27:26Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > flopping around like a fish. Lots of football fans don’t like that either - what else ya got? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/239 "2010-07-08T12:36:31Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Lots of football fans don’t like that either - what else ya got? 😃 As I stated earlier, it was what turned me off the game the first time I seriously tried watching an international game. We don’t get a lot of coverage in Canada otherwise. When the supposed best player in the game goes down so easily when there is only the goal keeper between him and getting a goal, I had to wonder is this type of play what made him the best player? ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453/240 "2010-07-08T12:55:51Z")
How much time are you going to invest in something you don’t like … a game at that! Being derisive about sports you don’t like is a sport in itself I suppose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-i-fucking-hate-soccer/545453.md?page=13)