Soccer is rubbish

[Qkkid]

On the news this morning postie they showed a team practising faking fall overs.They are just overpaid actors i reckon

[Big Dave]

I'm a sports nut too - but I rarely watch a whole game. (Soccer or Rugby.)
The diving, hassling the referee and culture of Soccer I find really ugly.
I just follow the results.
Sounds like we wuz robbed last night.

[The_Dover]

Soccer Hooligans who bash a 10 year old for wearing an English strip in Scotland..?

They weren't soccer hooligans.

That was the traditional local welcome.

[SimJen]

Postie, thats cause it was an Arsenal game.....go to any of the smaller clubs and its a lot better. All of the London clubs have crap atmospheres, its all about the money with them.
Sarge it wasn't soccer hooligans it was a lone Scottish nutter.....everybody knows they're mental

[sels1]

Rugby is for violent meatheads, firmly ensconced in the culture of wife-beating and alcoholism.

Trolling again Jim?, or wouldnt your mummy let you play rugby when you were little

[Postie]

Postie, thats cause it was an Arsenal game.....go to any of the smaller clubs and its a lot better. All of the London clubs have crap atmospheres, its all about the money with them.
Sarge it wasn't soccer hooligans it was a lone Scottish nutter.....everybody knows they're mental

so its just my imagination that the news has been awash with football violence and riots at every world cup or large football tournament?
The fact that the Germans had to make it illegal to imitate any Nazi signs to stop the football supporters from luring the Germans into fights????

[SimJen]

Most of the violence still occurs during world cup or large tournaments like you say.
My favourite soccer is english premiership where violence rarely occurs these days. If it does happen its usually at a shit teams ground where the locals are known to be nutters.......only really a handful of teams, and none I would support.
I don't watch much anymore, I prefer to be there.
Motorsport is my main interest now, Rossi and the guys of Motogp will always be more exciting.
Any time the Germans and English are bought together there will always be tensions......the fact that Hitler decided to try and take over the world will be difficult to forget. Its also fun taking the piss out of them

[James Deuce]

Soccer Hooligans who bash a 10 year old for wearing an English strip in Scotland..?

yea.. super game.. give me motorsport anyday

anything less is just a kids game played by overpaid primadonnnas

SARGE!!! Irony routine ON please.

Geez. Flippin' Americans.

Sels = Well DUH! Only made it into a RUbgy team in 7th form and only because I finally sneaked over 40kg in weight. How I've grown since!

[SARGE]

SARGE!!! Irony routine ON please.

Geez. Flippin' Americans.

in case you didnt see the story,,,

[Squeak the Rat]

I have been to English Premiership games, my boss had season tickets at Arsenal and i used to go most weeks, the atmosphere was shit, people only wanted to insult eachother and fight the other side cos they supported the other team, so each week there were 50,000 people who couldn't give a fuck about the sport or have any interest in sportsmanship at all, they just want to sling shit and organise fights.
If people want to watch it (and they obviously do cos its the most popular game in the world) then so be it, but i refuse to acknowledge it as a sport when it has no qualitys of sport at all.

You obviously don't like it. Why again did you used to go most weeks?

[James Deuce]

in case you didnt see the story,,,

You didn't have to use MY quote to highlight it. I was making a flippant comment, and I've seen rugby player do worse, on and off the field. We won't talk about home invasion, rape, or trying cause a spontaneous abortion by beating your girlfriend about the torso, sticking fingers up other players anuses, or any of the other meathead behaviours "professional" rugby playersd bring to society. That wasn't my point, but if you want a deep and meaningful, bring it on.

[Postie]

You obviously don't like it. Why again did you used to go most weeks?

cos my boss asked me to go, i never enjoyed the game but the food and drinks were worth the 90 minutes. I like sport and i tried to like football, at least i gave it a try, a lot of people would just dismiss it with out having any knowledge or experience of the sport.

[SARGE]

You didn't have to use MY quote to highlight it. I was making a flippant comment, and I've seen rugby player do worse, on and off the field. We won't talk about home invasion, rape, or trying cause a spontaneous abortion by beating your girlfriend about the torso, sticking fingers up other players anuses, or any of the other meathead behaviours "professional" rugby playersd bring to society. That wasn't my point, but if you want a deep and meaningful, bring it on.

yea sorry man.. wasnt anything towards you... i just hit the button to reply.. i was just making a point about the fan hooliganism that seems rampant in Soccer..even the riots in Germany over the last few days over a FRIKKIN GAME...


not a huge fan of any of the ball sports personally, but if you put a set of slicks and a supercharger on it.. im all over it.

maybe if we changed the rules of soccer to be played in a minefield i might tune in

bullfighting is cool too

[Squeak the Rat]

give me motorsport anyday

anything less is just a kids game played by overpaid primadonnnas

Unlike F1, MotoGP, WRC, SBK. Those guys have a hard job paying the mortgage on their shacks in Monaco........


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maybe if we changed the rules of soccer to be played in a minefield i might tune in

[The_Dover]

You didn't have to use MY quote to highlight it. I was making a flippant comment, and I've seen rugby player do worse, on and off the field. We won't talk about home invasion, rape, or trying cause a spontaneous abortion by beating your girlfriend about the torso, sticking fingers up other players anuses, or any of the other meathead behaviours "professional" rugby playersd bring to society. That wasn't my point, but if you want a deep and meaningful, bring it on.

If you could make the distinction between rugby union and rugby league you might realise most of this shit was league players.

As for football hooliganism, the organised thuggery should be open season for the armed pigs, but a lot of the pissed up fights would occur anywhere with that many pissed up guys in such a confined space.