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I watched five minutes of the Switzerland/Ecuador (I think) match yesterday. The end was great because the Swiss scored on the last play. The five minutes I watched before that made my eyelids heavy. How in God's name is this sport so damn popular? And holy ****, I thought flopping was bad in professional basketball but those guys are amateurs compared to soccer players.
As a former soccer player myself, I have to agree. You can get a card for diving, but embellishment is called 100 times as much in hockey. The fact of the matter is that it's hard to tell who is diving given the size of the soccer pitch. I'd like to see a system where cards are awarded after the game for blatant faking as indicated by instant replay (holding ones face when a foot came close). If a player accumulates 2 to 3 cards, they miss a game. That would at least cut back on the theatrics, even if players continued to fall more easily than they should.
makes the Donovan exlusion all the more baffling.They certainly seem to lack much offensive firepower without Altidore in there. It didn't look to my untrained eyes as if that Johanson kid was up to the task.
I don't know the rules of hockey but a fixed offside line sounds crazy. No clue how it works in Hockey but offside in soccer is what it is, two defenders (goalie usually one) between the forward and the goal. I have no idea how a fixed offside line could or would work.Also, the moving offside is a bit weird, I would rather they put a hard line like in hockey. It's also hard for the referee to properly judge this.
Klinsmann as a player was the biggest diver in the history of the game. He was a disgrace.The English Premiere League has done a great job reducing the flopping element in games. The combination of yellow carding the flopper and just keeping the whistle in the pocket has gone a long way in tightening up the product. What I've noticed since I climbed aboard the Liverpool bandwagon after Henry bought the team is that the players of the "romance language" dialect ...French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (no opinion on the Romanians..yet) are the serial floppers no matter the league. Watch the Italian leagues some time and occasionally "football" interrupts a 90 minute flop fest. This Mexico/Brazil is a perfect example of ingrained flopping...they can't help themselves, its in their DNA. Germany....never the antics. Japan.....they are too nice. Anyone see the highlights of the last Japan game at the World Cup. The Japanese fans whipped out large garbage bags after the game and cleaned up the areas in the stadium. That country doesn't flop. And the US.....Klinsman won't allow his players to raise their hands for the obligatory off sides plea that also is ingrained in most players DNA.
Klinsmann as a player was the biggest diver in the history of the game. He was a disgrace.
Certainly he had that reputation, though I've got to say that, compared with some of the Latin Americans I've watched since, he was pretty moderate.
Probably not you. You live or lived in Europe. I'm talking about people on the bus or at the gym in part of Massachusetts USA.What a sad thread -- so much heat, so little light.
No, no one could care less that you aren't interested in soccer.
This is a thread to talk about it for those who are interested (like a huge number of Americans, Pats fans included). But it seems to have been hijacked for general expressions of butt-pain that anyone could be passionate about the sport. Well, whatever ...
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