A good soccer game is entertaining if there’s nothing else on. Like…golf or curling, maybe badminton. For me it’s like hockey. I don’t understand the game, so I don’t know where to look for the entertainment. Playoff hockey, where everyone involved is top tier and just plain exciting to watch, is good with me though. American football I have played and understand, so I really enjoy watching it played well but I can see why someone might think it’s boring. It’s gotta be right up there with baseball in terms of a low action/standing around ratio.
I don’t think we’ve had the “I, who knows nothing about the game, propose some really ill-thought-out rule changes” one yet. Plenty time for it yet though 
football is a game where you kick a ball with your foot - you’re thinking of another game entirely, handegg or something 
On a proper football team there are two players, the punter & the placekicker, whose primary job is to kick the ball…with their foot. Of course, the player’s weight is measured in lbs.
When you measure in kgs, the weight conversion makes it an entirely different game. It’s one of those space/time continuum things. :dubious:
It always mystifies me when people proudly announce their ignorance on a subject.
I’m not a soccer fan. I also find it boring to watch. But it is the most popular sport in the world, with 4 billion fans. So I have to conclude that it is not intrinsically boring. It’s just that I don’t know enough about it to see the things that make it interesting.
I watch soccer mostly during the World Cup (because I would like to understand it better), or when Panama has a critical game in some tournament (so I know why the people around me are elated or depressed:)). The last time around, watching some of the key games, I did begin to get an inkling of the strategy, and what the different players were doing, and why it might be interesting and exciting even when a goal wasn’t imminent.
Fine if you don’t like baseball, or basketball, or chess, or ballet, or on-line gaming, or whatever. But announcing the fact to the world seems pretty pointless. I actually think it’s defensiveness. Confronted by the fact that one doesn’t understand the appeal of something that others find interesting, it’s easier to attribute it to some intrinsic feature of the activity rather than one’s own ignorance.
I’ve got a list a mile long of things I find boring and pointless that other people find interesting. You know what I don’t do? Start threads about topics that I find boring and pointless.
If I thought watching soccer was boring and pointless (and full disclosure, I absolutely do), I’d ignore threads about soccer and I wouldn’t start threads on soccer.
Now, back to the discussion of whether the Glorfindel from Fellowship of the Rings is the same Glorfindel from the Silmarillion, or a different elf with the same name.
And it always mystifies me when someone makes an assumption/judgment of their own, assigns it to another person, and then criticizes them for it. It’s much akin to a “Strawman Argument”.
I said that I find it boring as hell. Compared to the action of the NFL, NHL, and NBA, it’s dead to me. That’s the way I feel about the sport. I didn’t say it was worthless and should be expunged from the planet just because I don’t like it.
By the way, many of the countries that embrace soccer never had another major sport to embrace or compare it to. It became king by default. The reason soccer has not become huge in this country is that we DO have other major, established sports to which to compare it. Evidence would indicate that it palls in the comparison.
If you find soccer boring, I really suggest you skip the Cricket World Cup next year! 
Was this the Glorfindel who played stiker, or the wide receiver one?
I suppose this forum is for the Mundane and Pointless, so I guess you’re entitled to post your opinion here. I just don’t understand the motivation.
Although you denied it, here you are claiming there is something intrinsic about soccer that makes it less appealing than any other sport. By this argument, American football should never have become established against baseball in the US.
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Really? Give me examples!
What makes soccer boring to me is the passing. Wide open player A kicks ball to wide open player B, who then kicks it to wide open player C. No opposing player is even nearby to block or intercept. Every other similar sport there’s a constant fight for control of the ball.
OP did start a separate thread, rather than threadshitting a football thread - that’s the classy way to do it if you do feel the urge.
That’s the defense holding their shape. If a defender runs out of position it creates a hole in the defense which can be exploited. In the last few minutes of a match if a team is behind they might swarm the ball because its worth the risk of giving up a counterattack goal to take the ball away and attack.
Wow! Three major blow-outs in one day!
The old Papacy vs Sultanry wars being refought in the 21st century.
If you want to stick to your personal opinion that it’s boring, no problem. But now you’re trying to use convoluted logic to argue that it’s objectively a worse sport, which is just silly when it’s by far the most popular sport in the world by viewership. Are you suggesting that the sport’s 4 billion global viewers are unconsciously harboring a desire to watch American football instead, if only they had the chance? Perhaps if we set up a series of tubes, to allow everyone to watch the Superbowl live, it would turn things around?
I once had an attitude like the OP. Then I became friends with a bunch of people who were really into it. Their enthusiasm didn’t really have much of an effect on me, until they brought over a copy of FIFA 99 or 2000 for Playstation and I inexplicably kicked their asses, all day long.
The point is, you won’t like soccer, or anything else for that matter, until you find an angle that makes it interesting to you. For me, it was videogames. Frankly, I still occasionally find watching soccer to be a bit tedious, like I couldn’t watch more than one game in a sitting, but even so, I get it.
Granted, there may not be such an angle for everyone. As much as I played the shit out of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 on the Wii, you still couldn’t pay me to watch golf on TV.
It was much worse before the goalkeeper back-pass rule, when a team could just kick to their own goalie all day long.