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FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa Discussion (pg. 177)
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| osterzone |
| quote: | Originally posted by yukii
Honestly, no. But they should at least play in fair. Don't put an Italian as the referee if more than half the population in Argentina is Italian and don't count a ing goal that was seriously off sides.
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FIFA has had a long history of bull goals and awful calls. This year's WC happens to be the worst though.
Let's face it...football is not that fair of a game at all. Pretty much all the players are diving pussies, you have referees from poor third-world countries blowing calls left and right (it reeks of match fixing with these corrupt governments), and you have World Cup's and important games decided on gimmicky penalty shootouts.
The only reason football is as popular as it is around the world is because it's the cheapest sport to play, hence the reason you see these ed-up dictatorship countries fielding World Cup teams. It has nothing to do with the quality of the game (in fact, football is heavily flawed). It has everything to do with the fact that all you need to have to play a game of soccer is a ball. That's it. |
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| shaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
ah yes i remember now.
"the hand of boob" goal. |
Nobody cares about that silly Mexican slapping balls. It's all about the awkwardly masculine she-beast stripping to the world's most boring undergarment. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by osterzone
FIFA has had a long history of bull goals and awful calls. This year's WC happens to be the worst though.
Let's face it...football is not that fair of a game at all. Pretty much all the players are diving pussies, you have referees from poor third-world countries blowing calls left and right (it reeks of match fixing with these corrupt governments), and you have World Cup's and important games decided on gimmicky penalty shootouts.
The only reason football is as popular as it is around the world is because it's the cheapest sport to play, hence the reason you see these ed-up dictatorship countries fielding World Cup teams. It has nothing to do with the quality of the game (in fact, football is heavily flawed). It has everything to do with the fact that all you need to have to play a game of soccer is a ball. That's it. |
thank you
hell you don't even need an actual ball to play the game....just something somewhat round that you can kick |
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| djhaziel |
| quote: | Originally posted by osterzone
Let's face it...football is not that fair of a game at all. |
it's not ... it's very much like life ... thats what makes it so beautiful ;) |
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| Scottaculous |
| world cup 2010 winner: the fifa referees |
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | Originally posted by osterzone
FIFA has had a long history of bull goals and awful calls. This year's WC happens to be the worst though.
Let's face it...football is not that fair of a game at all. Pretty much all the players are diving pussies, you have referees from poor third-world countries blowing calls left and right (it reeks of match fixing with these corrupt governments), and you have World Cup's and important games decided on gimmicky penalty shootouts.
The only reason football is as popular as it is around the world is because it's the cheapest sport to play, hence the reason you see these ed-up dictatorship countries fielding World Cup teams. It has nothing to do with the quality of the game (in fact, football is heavily flawed). It has everything to do with the fact that all you need to have to play a game of soccer is a ball. That's it. |
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| Schadenfreude |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
Nobody cares about that silly Mexican slapping balls. It's all about the awkwardly masculine she-beast stripping to the world's most boring undergarment. |
you, sponge bob thongs are comfy :mad: |
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| noikeee |
| quote: | Originally posted by osterzone
Well that's what a lot of the people on here believe- that there's still "tradition" in football...or sports in general.
These kind of people make the same case against baseball getting instant replay. They compare baseball today to what it was back in 1910 and say they shouldn't ruin the tradition of the game.
Meanwhile, baseball is 99% different today than it was back then. There is no tradition left between all the steroids, HGH, new stadium dimensions, new bat technology, new training methods, new glove shapes, new uniform styles, new batting helmets, new batting gloves, new on-deck warmup methods... |
I wouldn't say it's about tradition, it's about the identity of the sport, change the rules too much and people will be confused as to what exactly the sport is all about, sadly I've seen this happen with another of my fav sports, Formula 1, big rule changes every single god-damn year, it's still not right and everybody disagrees on what should be changed now.
Personally I'm for instant replay, I think the large majority of football fans are for it as well, unfortunately the people in charge are not. I think it can easily be done simply by appointing a videoref watching the cameras and in contact with the ref on the pitch, it's not a wild or confusing concept, it'd avoid such ridiculous unfair calls, and done right wouldn't disrupt too much the flow of the game neither, calling this England goal today would've taken 5 seconds.
What I don't want is americanizing the sport, making revolutionary changes to increase scoring, stopping the clock, etc etc, things like that don't relate to the identity of sport. But it doesn't mean the sport can't be improved, carefully. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
This is what's wrong with soccer.
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| djhaziel |
| GOLAZZOOOOOOO!!!!!! |
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| osterzone |
| quote: | Originally posted by noikeee
What I don't want is americanizing the sport, making revolutionary changes to increase scoring, stopping the clock, etc etc, things like that don't relate to the identity of sport. But it doesn't mean the sport can't be improved, carefully. |
Gary Bettman made a bunch of "revolutionary" changes to the NHL after the 04-05 lockout and it didn't change the game much at all. The players just got better and the game changed on its own. |
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