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Bobaphat · 04-23-2004, 05:10 PM

I am sure that soccer players are very talented athletes, nonetheless, I would rather take a good kick to the crotch then sit through a game. I just find in mind numbingly boring (same goes for hokey, its soccer on ice...zzzzzz). Its not for lack of trying, I have been to a number of matches, it just does nothing for me.

Spartak · 04-23-2004, 05:56 PM

As Nick Hornby in his wonderful book "Fever Pitch" writes:

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Absurdly, I haven't yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful sport, but of course it is. Goals have a rarity value that points and runs and sets do not, and so there will always be that thrill, the thrill of seeing someone do something that can only be done three or four times in a whole game if you are lucky, not at all if you are not. And I love the pace of it, its lack of formula; and I love the way that small men can destroy big men in a way that they can't in other contact sports, and the way that the best team does not necessarily win. And there's the athleticism, and the way that strength and intelligence have to combine. It allows players to look beautiful and balletic in a way that some sports do not: a perfectly-timed diving header, or a perfectly-struck volley, alow the body to achieve a poise and grace that some sportsmen can never exhibit

I agree 100%

04-23-2004, 05:10 PM	#81 (permalink)
Bobaphat whoopity doo Location: Seattle	I am sure that soccer players are very talented athletes, nonetheless, I would rather take a good kick to the crotch then sit through a game. I just find in mind numbingly boring (same goes for hokey, its soccer on ice...zzzzzz). Its not for lack of trying, I have been to a number of matches, it just does nothing for me. __________________ --size matters not-- yoda