**Spoiler if you have taped the World Cup Final**

**Winston001** · 10th July 2006, 19:11

I've said it before - soccer needs more points scored in a game. Look at basketball, tennis, cricket, baseball - in fact most sports. Plenty of points in every game.

Not in soccer. Nil all games at full time. What bloody nonsense. Widen the goal, stop the goalie handling the ball, change the off-side rule. A simple change would be all it would take.

Look at rugby. It got bogged down in titanic but boring forward play with low scoring. The IRB changed the rules and what a magnificent difference.

I'll happily concede that soccer has advantages over rugby. Being non-contact anyone can play it. All you need is a ball. But settling world cup level competitions by penalty shootout leaves this spectator cold.

**Patrick** · 10th July 2006, 19:15

Couldn't understand why they didn't go for the kick over the cross bar... worth three points you know! They would have won without the penalty shootout!

**The_Dover** · 10th July 2006, 19:16

Typical cops, always looking for the easy statistics.

It would not be boring if the players were knocking the shit out of each other and making it a real contest. I don't find a low scoring rugby game boring, a good forward battle is great to watch, provided it's not all South African style killing the ball and penalties.

A goal is a goal, end of story, and if you'd watched much of the world cup you'd see that even with so called "World Class" strikers the goal mouth would need to stretch from corner to corner and be 40 feet high to increase the shots on target ratio.

Dwarf goalies could be a laugh though. You know the proper little stumpy dudes.

**Big Dave** · 11th July 2006, 09:04

Todays harold:

it also came at the end of a tournament that, instead of showcasing the globe's most beautiful game, has spotlighted a shameful catalogue of phony grimaces of pain and Hollywood dives as players feigned one injury after another and tried to cheat an advantage.

**Swoop** · 11th July 2006, 09:16

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Todays harold:

it also came at the end of a tournament that, instead of showcasing the globe's most beautiful game, has spotlighted a shameful catalogue of phony grimaces of pain and Hollywood dives as players feigned one injury after another and tried to cheat an advantage.

The harold had to report that???

I thought it was a simple fact that the players could be nominated for an oscar...

**Lou Girardin** · 11th July 2006, 09:48

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Yeah but they don't have NRL! Poor sods.

They don't have incontinent morons pissing on the field either.

**Lou Girardin** · 11th July 2006, 09:49

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Todays harold:

it also came at the end of a tournament that, instead of showcasing the globe's most beautiful game, has spotlighted a shameful catalogue of phony grimaces of pain and Hollywood dives as players feigned one injury after another and tried to cheat an advantage.

Sounds like extremely bitter vinous fruit.

Never mind we'll have the thugby world cup. That'll show the wrold how it's done.

**Big Dave** · 11th July 2006, 10:13

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

They don't have incontinent morons pissing on the field either.

Nah - just the rule book and the ideal of sportsmanship.

**Zed** · 11th July 2006, 10:14

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Todays harold:

it also came at the end of a tournament that, instead of showcasing the globe's most beautiful game, has spotlighted a shameful catalogue of phony grimaces of pain and Hollywood dives as players feigned one injury after another and tried to cheat an advantage.

Haha i reckon they could put together about 5 mins of continuous footage of players falling over, like the bike stunt/accident mpegs we see on here, that'd be a laugh, they could do multiple slow motion rewinds! :eyepoke:

**sAsLEX** · 11th July 2006, 10:48

The Conversation according to afew forums

Zidane: - "Ordinanza de tirare il costume!!" (stop pulling my
jersey!!)

Materazzi: - "Taciti, enculo, hai solamente cio che merite..." (Shut
up, you
mother f$%er, you only got what you deserves)

Zidane:- "si e cio..." (yeah...that's it...)

Materazzi: - "meritate tutti ciò, voi gli enculato di musulmani,
sporchi
terroristici"
(you derserve all that, you f#$ing muslims, dirty terrorists...)

**Zed** · 11th July 2006, 13:20

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

The Conversation according to afew forums

Did you add in that last line yourself Alex?

**crashe** · 11th July 2006, 13:30

Watched TV1 midday news today......

It was either BBC or CNN that had someone lipread what was said..

I cant tell you what was said as I only caught the tail end of the news clip.
But its didnt sound too good... some racial slurs etc.
Last words were "Go Fuck yourself" and then Zidane went and headbutted the dude for saying that.

So watch tonight 6pm news on TV1.
There maybe something already in TVNZ website.