Resolved: I fucking hate soccer!

The BBQ Pit
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Another person who doesn’t get it.

I watched World Cup soccer players miss the goal by a mile. The circumstances were that there was nobody between them and the goal other than the goalie.

They kicked. They missed. The entire fucking goal! The goalie didn’t even have to make a play on it.

Give me the ball with nobody between me and the net, and I guarantee that I could at least kick a ball that the goalie would have to stop.

Get it?

They’re supposedly the best the world has to offer. They can’t hit the broad side of a barn–which is about the size of a soccer goal.

What’s so hard to understand about this? They kick, they pray, and, mostly, they miss.

Blech.

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Oh, I get it.

Too bad there is no way we will ever get the opportunity to see your awesome soccer skills.

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Hockey’s better, faster, meaner, cooler.

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What does that have to do with his assertion? He didn’t say he could play the entire game. He merely said he could kick at a goal. He’s presuming that, like in the game he has described, he had ample time to get off a kick.

As for the scoring thing–It’s just like a test in school. What good would a test be that only very occasionally had a single question that you could answer? Would it really test your knowledge? That’s what happens in soccer. These people play a really good game, but they are denied any recognition of this after the game is over. And it does seem like pure chance when a goal goes in, or else they’d be able to do it more often. Any one goal could be a fluke, and that fluke can mean that team gets considered the better team. The test of the game was insufficient to establish that.

If there’s so much athleticism being display, why not reward that athleticism? Why instead reward people fake slipping and falling?

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Right on, Rysdad.

And yeah, it’s absolutely ridiculous that these pussies get paid a fortune to do this every week and miss the fucking goal 9 times out of 10 by a mile.

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When the fuck did I ever say I had any soccer skills? You don’t need any world-class skills to kick a ball at an airplane hangar. Yet, that seems to be beyond the capability of the best soccer players in the world on numerous occasions.

Bite me. Pissant. And try to get the point.

I couldn’t play in the NFL, either. But I can appreciate the NFL (or MLB, or NHL, or NBA) because there’s more than a modicum of skill or chance involved in winning the game.

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And no one ever misses the net. Ever.

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I think the World Cup has been dreadfully exciting this year.

Of course, I’ve watched only a few minutes of play overall, with 98% of that being highlights, so there’s some good stuff. And I walked into the employee lounge the other day, turned towards the TV and just at that moment a player scored on a nice header off a corner kick. That’s the second time in the last six months that I walked into the lounge just in time to witness a cool goal. The odds against that must be amazing.

It’s a great sport to play. And to watch the highlights on TV.

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You know what? I’ll give you that. Watching a score is neat.

It’s just the rest of the game that is, to use your lead, dreadful.

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To truly enjoy watching any sport, you’ve got to have a stake in it. For many people, a team loyalty is enough. For many others, a bet adds spice to the game.

I don’t watch sports as a rule except for the NFL, and mostly the Dallas Cowboys games.

But every two years, for the European Cup and the World Cup, I have to follow the Orange. And because the games are broadcast commercial free, I just don’t have a chance for a bathroom break. (Wasn’t that Double- Dutch goal awesome!)

That is why many Americans and Canadians without a recent ethnic connection just can’t get into the game. Both countries are really a joke in the world as far as soccer goes, and many see no reason to tie themselves to a loser.

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“Bite me. Pissant.” Really? That’s the best you’ve got?

You saying you could kick the ball to the goalie in a world cup soccer match pretty much implies that you are saying you have some soccer skills. You seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that you would have to get the ball within striking distance of the goal to even have a shot at the “airplane hangar”. You would never get the ball close enough to even attempt a kick.

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I don’t get soccer either, but apparently foreigners like it. So, unless you’re a foreigner, I don’t think it should bother you so much that it’s boring.

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Rysdad

I’m out. There’s no getting through to you and I’ve better things to do. You’ve not seen any of my videos. You’ve not said anything that would imply a genuine knowledge of football. And you still haven’t explained the difference between a 4-4-2 and a 4-3-3, presumably because you can’t and you still think you’re knowledgeable enough to criticise the game! You’re a know-nothing half-wit. I’ll just say

You have no idea how ironic this is. And you never will. Because you’re a simple minded motherfucker. That’s cool. Gas doesn’t pump itself.

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I’d give him 5 minutes at the outside if he was playing as a striker for a Sunday league pub team.

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The thing that makes American Football such masturbatory wankism is that fact that its all franchised because the team owners dont want to take a risk.

The whole principle of sport is to put yourself up there and take that risk, you put the goods on display for all to see, and if you ain’t good enough, you go down.

Soccer does put it up there, from the local pub team right through to World cup and the World club championship. If you don’t make the grade then you are out of there.

American football, one the other hand, it does not matter just how much you fucking suck donkey bollocks, you still get to play in the top tier the next season.

You only have the option of trying for top spot, and for most teams, it obvious they are only playing to get more fucking hotdogs sold to more overwieght ingnorant redneck American sportfan wankers. Only two teams have any hope of winning, and the rest are just there making up the numbers.

You don’t have the highs and the lows of the promotion/relegation battle, and whats all that about the fucking draft then? From the supposed land of free enterprise and also for personal freedom of choice?

What we do have is a number of fucking stupid, ignorant and ill educated cunts like the OP who deems that the entire world revolves around his personal values and he is too limited in his intellect to imagine that actually, other folk have other opinions of all sorts.

International world champions in a sport no one in the entire world gives one fish’s tit about, don’t make me laugh, you call it sport when you have a break ever 30 seconds just so you can fit in some more advertising, it also gives a bit more time for the burger sales to provide another dollop of ‘obesity in a bun’ to a population that clearly needs no assistance in this regard - and the true joke is that these fat gobs of ignorance are sports fans - so-called.

Truth is, if you ain’t interested, then there is no need to act like a fucking twat, each sport has its own merits, and we can readily point out the flaws, hell I could point out some flaws in Soccer, but at least I don’t colour my viewing lens with a thick coat of ignorance - unlike the idiot OP.

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No skill required? A silly comment.

Imagine a ball coming at you 40+ mph, you’ve got two opposition players closing in on you meaning you have to stop, control and deliver the ball to a team-mate in a manner that makes it easy to control for them. Oh, and where are those team-mates? well while you were controlling that ball you’ll have spotted them making runs into space, which option to take? well THAT one means delivering a curling left foot pass and that’s not your strong foot, THAT one means a firm side foot pass between and will put it on your team-mates strong foot. Or perhaps the long looping pass into space will make the player NOT making a run, get on his bike. And remember, you’ve got about a second to process this and execute the pass.

That is the typical thought process of the skilled players in the world cup. That happens scores of times during a game but If you haven’t played or studied the game you won’t know this or appreciate it or even notice it.

You may as well complain that a Ferrari can’t even pass a Toyota based upon a couple of races you once saw.

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Only an idiot or someone who has never played football at a competitive level, would say that there is no skill involved in playing the game. I’ve a feeling our voluble OP is a member of both camps

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Oh…and Downhill skiiing?
sliding downhill on a couple of planks, gravity does the work for you AND YET THEY STILL CRASH!

bloody lightweights!

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I fucking hate Basketball. What a fucking waste of time. One bunch of floppy stringbeans beating another bunch of floppy stringbeans 678 points to 676 points. Why the fuck do they play the full game? Just play the last five minutes, see who wins by two points.

Then I realised that fat Americans dont really care about the sport, they just like jumping up every few seconds and high-fiving random people, shouting “YEAH YEAH YEAH” as some sort of cultural fat fuckers foreplay. So they like Basketball, which has hundreds of scores per game, each one meaningless as fuck except as something to please the attention-deficit blobbies sitting in their reinforced laz-e-boys.
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(Fucking ads. You retards actually allow your games to stop for ad breaks, what bullshit.)

Anyway, I hate Basketball. And baseball. Fucking detest it. Funny though, I dont think I have watched a game of either in years, why the hell would I? So I was just wondering, do I have to start pit threads to tell people I don’t like something? Because I dont like Cricket, Tennis or gingers either, but I couldnt really be bothered typing out a pile of pit threads. What should I do?

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I have been following along in this thread with a scorecard, keeping track of everyone’s penis sizes. So don’t worry, all of your testosterone-fueled, “my sport is awesome and yours sucks” rants are being duly recorded, and I will be publishing a bar graph when this is all finished.