Meh, Do you really think England could have won after seeing what Germany did to Argentina? It was a bad call, but they kicked your ass like a redheaded step child. Get over it.
my roomate was watching a game last night, perhaps in south Africa. Just because I needed another reason to hate soccer the fans all had Kazoo’s…I made him turn that shit off before I had to punch him in the face, nothing like watching soccer while listening to a swarm of angry bees.
I’ve got no use for futbol/soccer, but I understand that’s due to where I was raised. I enjoy basketball/US football/baseball but realize they’re nowhere near perfect as spectator sports. (Although non-pro basketball is pretty good.)
Anyway, my knock on futbol is that the players can’t use their hands.
It’s like watching Irish step dancing. Sure those dancers have some great moves, but manual dexterity is sort of what defines the uniqueness of the human race. Why disallow half the body?
Ballet dancers. Swing dancers. Break dancers. They would all be so much more interesting if only they’d stop moving their arms!1!
That’s my main dispute with futbol.
I can’t decide if this more, or less, retarded than the OP.
It might be less, but thats still pretty retarded.
Hmmm, yes. Maradona is why I stopped watching soccer the first time I tried to many years ago during another world cup. There he was the best player in the world on a break away with no one between him and the goal other than the goal keep. Wow, could it get any better?! Well, there was a guy behind him who looked at him cross-eyed. Next thing you knew Maradonna was on the ground and I was wondering why the camera’s weren’t scanning the crowd looking for the sniper that obviously had put a 50cal bullet through his head to knock him to the ground so hard. Wait! It wasn’t a sniper, it was just regular soccer theatrics. He was rewarded for his play, not with an Oscar which he would have won for his rendition of a fish, but with a free kick. Pussies play the game, pussies ref the game, and pussies watch it (at least those who think such actions are reasonable).
But, maybe that is why they call it the ‘beautiful’ game? The acting was truly amazing.
You disallow half the body because it’s the half that we are especially good at. It makes the sport much more challenging.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12646412&postcount=1
I read through as much as I could stand of the whole fucking idiotic thread, Rysdad vs. the world’s most beloved spectator sport, that he started.
What a fucking joke.
He made a point. Oh, wait, no he didn’t, because he is a total imbecile and doesn’t know shit about soccer, or any other sport as far as he was able to demonstrate.
What. The. Fuck. ?
Ain’t that the idea? To learn something halfway intelligent about something in order to present cogent criticism of it? And not just be a self-inflated douchebag?
90% of the thread is ignorant bullshit. Only a couple people came close to a real, justifiable criticism of FIFA.
But not the OP.
WHAT A FUCKING TOOL. HE CAN’T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO LEARN SOMETHING BEFORE FROTHING AT THE MOUTH LIKE A VAGRANT, RABID DOG!!!
Then, there were more stupid comments. Evidently, that means Rysdad is on to something. Um, no.
Then, a couple people moronically entered the thread to brainlessly /agree with Rysdad, but without any substantive comments relating to intelligent criticism.
These fucktards without two braincells between the lot of 'em didn’t even come close to pointing out some of the real issues with FIFA.
These brainless prats spend their time posting gibberish like this on a holiday weekend? Ridiculous.
During the time I endured this faux thread, 99% of the time, whenever a poster on Rydad’s side posted a comment, there was a 99.99% chance that someone who actually knows something about sports would blast their ignorance into smithereens.
For Christ’s sake, Rysdad couldn’t even adequately explain how many players there are on a side and what their positions are!
Learn something about then topic, then develop well-constructed criticism for it. Don’t just spout off inane diarrhea and expose your ignorance for all to see. Educate yourself first.
As best as I can tell, Rysdad gets angry that other people like stuff he knows nothing about, and therefore has to try and grab handfuls of his poo and fling them at people who know better than him.
Then, when his poo misses all of his targets, he smears it on his face and wails about how sucky his life is.
Rereading his posts, I still can’t see that he has an IQ above the average summertime temperature in Antarctica in Fahrenheit.
Idiot.
Regardless, I’m sure we’ll see him post again.
And reveal his ignorance to all the world, again.
I can’t read anymore of his posts.
What a fucking moron.
The biggest problem with football is that for various reasons FIFA doesn’t allow referees to use video technology. These reasons are all mindbogglingly stupid and all basically boil down to the fact that FIFA President Sepp Blatter is a fat, flatulent cunt who wants to live in the past. This is a massive flaw in professional football and I can understand if it puts you off watching the game.
This doesn’t mean it’s a game for pussies though, although some players are indeed pussies. Just spend five minutes playing with your average Sunday league pub team and you’ll see (and feel!) what I mean. Some of these amateurs take it more seriously than the professionals 
I have seen many a game where the eventual winner went against the run of play. It is very common in football. When the second goal went in Germany were clearly rocked. Anything could have happened. Unfortunately, due to the incompetent officiating, we will never know.
Good lord, amen. You have never had to run more in your life than if you play soccer as an adult. That’s part of the reason I ended up playing keeper on my intramural team in college. That, and I can’t dribble worth a damn. I’ll throw my whole body in front of an attack, though. I think that came from playing cornerback in American football.
This is MY HOUSE!
Damn, I miss guarding the goal.
it’s the only position you can use your hands.
Employing video technology for determining goals will simply cause inoportune lengthy interuptions to the play. Imagine the coach of the offense throwing down the red flag as the defense clears the rebound and are on the counter attack.
Just when does the ref stop the play to go to the booth?
I much prefer dedicated goal judges. Accurate instant decisions.
Just watched David Ortiz go 0-4 today against the Orioles! He struck out * three times *. What a douchebag! What kind of sport is this?! Baseball is never going to catch on in the States. Players who put the ball in play 30 percent of the time are the All-Stars?! What the fuck!
What about implanting a microchip in the ball?
On the other hand, the game’s hardly worth playing if mistakes like this and this are allowed to go unaddressed. And don’t even get me STARTED on THIS shit! There’s got to be a trade-off at some point. Video technology might slow the game down a bit but if it makes the game fairer then it’s worth it. Dedicated goal judges are also a good idea though. That would probably be a fair compromise.
I’m English and as much as it wounds my national pride to admit it, I’ve got to side with Monkey on this one. He’s absolutely right. The Germans have really perfected the art of the lethal counter-attack, and the way we were defending it’s pretty unlikely we would have stopped them taking the lead again. Frankly, that seven minute period at the end of the second half was really the only time in the game when we looked better than them.
Right. All Americans are overweight. Uh-huh. And NFL football is awesome, and I like futbol.
I’m really sensing a trend here. Fuck off. There’s no need to attack a whole nation of people because you disagree with the OP’s ignorant rant about futbol.
Nobody that dislikes futbol is claiming American superiority, other than perhaps the sports that Americans are accustomed to and grew up with (just like South Americans, Europeans, etc do with futbol) are more culturally intrinsic than futbol. Just because more people globally play futbol doesn’t inherently make it a better sport any more than “just because a sport is American”.
So he’s an American?
I don’t doubt the actual athleticism of the players, I just couldn’t believe that the rules allowed such crap to happen. I remember playing the game fondly as a kid and thought I’d give it a chance as an adult. Not being much of a sports fan in any case, what I saw was enough to convince me not to waste my time.
What I like about the OP is that it is exactly the same as all the othe people who hate a sport and have no clue. Maybe the OP is right about everything and football is the world’s worst group acivity this side of genocide; however it sounds like, for instance, people I know who describe American football (calling it Rugby) as “lots of guys hitting each other” and it’s also one step away from “kissing is just swapping saliva”.
Watching Schweinsteiger own the midfield against Argentina was a thing of beauty.
Technology: Ball with chip: yes; most other stuff no. Video for penalising those fucking fakers who dive: agreed (after the match). If we got video for offsides like in the World cup: good, because it’s almost instantaneous.
In addition to having instant replay to settle the matter of questionable goals, a letter to the sports editor of the New York Times today had other suggestions that sound reasonable to me:
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Stop the game clock when the ball is out of play or action is stopped for a foul or injury (enough with the “stoppage time”. Seems like it would be more exciting if the clock was actually ticking down for real the first time).
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Replace “yellow cards” with hockey-style power plays (I doubt many goals would be scored during these, but there’d be a reasonable chance of a score if the power play lasted at least 5 minutes). And put players on the bench for at least the duration of a power play if they are found to fake fouls/injuries.
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No more ties, in any game. If a sudden-death overtime doesn’t settle matters, go to penalty kicks. Something I found repulsive was the jockeying for ties during the World Cup first round. There was a U.S. player commenting in an interview that while the team would like to beat Slovenia, a tie would be OK too. Now there’s a gung-ho spirit. :rolleyes:
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Select an Obnoxious Fan Of The Game (ten candidates picked by the TV broadcast crew would be flashed on a big screen, with fan voting via cellphones or some such). The winner (loser) is placed in the stocks, and fans filing out of the game get to jeer and douse him/her with beverages (alright, this is my idea and not the letter writer’s).
I lost interest in this thread, and I was going to let it die, but I feel I should respond to this nitwit. (Evidently using the quoting feature is beyond Knorf’s capabilities, so I’ll try to patch up his efforts where possible.)
[quote=“Knorf, post:107, topic:545453”]
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12646412&postcount=1
“What a fucking joke.”
Yes, yes I did. Because it is. A joke. And much of the world has swallowed it. Too bad for them. I don’t really care. Watch it until your eyes bleed. Just keep it off the screens of sports bars.
The point was, you dumbass, that soccer is a boring sport. I don’t need to know the rules nor how many people play it to see that it’s boring.
And, anytime you’d like to discuss rules and regulations of any of the other sports I mentioned, feel free. You don’t seem like you’d be much of a challenge in a contest of wits.
He also quotes me as saying:
“What. The. Fuck. ?”
I believe that still stands without any further explanation needed.
Calm down there, snookums. As I said, I don’t need to learn anything more about soccer to see that it’s boring, and, well, kinda wimpy.
So, if I and the rest of the fucktards studied soccer, we’d be able to come up with even more criticisms? Doesn’t it have enough already? Why would we want to learn something about that which we already loathe just to find even more things to hate?
Rather unstable argument there, champ.
Yet, you read it and posted as well. Join the fucktard club.
Read back. I never tried. Go ahead. Read again. Nope.
Dude, this was just lame. Unfunny. Unoriginal. Adolescent. Try harder next time.
sigh
I have to give you an epic fail on your entire post.
Dear World, here I stand, revealed, by Knorf the Challenged. His scathing commentary has opened my eyes, and I’m bathed in the goodness and light that is his wisdom.
Yet, soccer still sucks.
In all likelihood, this will be my last post on the subject. As you said, it’s a holiday weekend, and I have the rest of the week off. I’m going fishing.
If any mod feels like closing this one, feel free. I’m done with it.