Are you off your nut? A penalty shoot out to determine a world cup winner is the most exciting moment in sports. It was epic...sad to see the USA lose, but Japan did sort of need it. Great, great game.Originally Posted by thelancinator
Penalty kicks to decide the world champion....and people wonder why Americans hate soccer
Last edited by JoeyB; 07-18-2011 at 05:16 AM. Reason: shout? Shoot...
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It's completely lame....champions should be decided on the field, not by some feat of chance. Might as well just sit down and play a game of Slap Jack to determine the winner
Actually, the greatest happening in sport is sudden death dodgeball, obviously. Dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge~!!
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I think everyone in my world, the normal world, knows that Mark Levin and Hannity are relevant only to the angriest, most bitter Americans. (Alec Baldwin)
I'm just curious, what exactly is the attraction with football?
American football? None. Proper footie? It's wonderful~!!
It was decided on the pitch, how do you not get that?
It's completely lame....champions should be decided on the field, not by some feat of chance. Might as well just sit down and play a game of Slap Jack to determine the winner
I wish I had the time to go into this right now Lance, but there is an elegance and splendor to a draw...it's what makes footie so great. And the penalty kickout seen in games that must have a definitive winner is an incredible sight.
But the draw is part of what makes soccer the Beautiful Game.
I understand your point of view, I grew up at a time when soccer was widely derided here in the states and had the same attitude as yours...until I watched it. Now, it's the only sport I can watch regularly, because all others pale in the extreme beside it.
There is a wonder to the game that comes to you after a time, something special about it. How every goal can shift the style of play, the aforementioned draws, the balletic magnificence of well play football...no other sport can touch that.
And for the record, some of the best matches I have ever seen, ones that had me shouting and barely able to contain myself, and that left me feeling really great long after the game ended, were in fact draws.
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The horse does not eat cucumber salad.
I think everyone in my world, the normal world, knows that Mark Levin and Hannity are relevant only to the angriest, most bitter Americans. (Alec Baldwin)
Been to a game ??
Once, I was bored to tears, never again...
It takes an amazing amount of skill and courage to put a penalty away with all that pressurePenalty kicks to decide the world champion....and people wonder why Americans hate soccer
You would not think it but it does
We tried the sudden death way of sorting out the result but it was SHITE
I have actually enjoyed soccer/football games - and the womans world cup gold game was a very good one
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You are either grabbed by it or not as in your case
For me it's not just the game it's much much more than that
Ah yes, assume that because I dislike it, that I never watch it.
Maybe a game of Jenga to decide the winner
I played that once but was hard work as I was in a caravan with a force ten gale blowing outside
You hate soccer, from the way you talk about it. So why do you keep watching it? And after all I wrote, that was the only comment you had?
Last edited by JoeyB; 07-18-2011 at 05:36 AM.
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Pippa~!!
The horse does not eat cucumber salad.
I think everyone in my world, the normal world, knows that Mark Levin and Hannity are relevant only to the angriest, most bitter Americans. (Alec Baldwin)
I'd take you to a game
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