07-18-2011, 03:00 PM
Trouble wrote: Soccer is popular because, generally, the rest of the world is poor and the only thing that is needed is a ball.
That's one of the dumbest things you've ever written. You don't need to stretch into nonsense mode to get across the point that you don't like soccer. You and freeradical have turned the whole thread into a we hate soccer thread so we clearly get it.
Dennis S wrote:
and, when your team is getting close to the net, all of a sudden, woah, somebody on the other team kicks it way back the other way and you start all over.
Another nonsense statement. First off, every ball game has turnovers where possession of the ball switches to the other team and the direction of play reverses. Basketball probably has a lot more of them than soccer and looks much more like your depiction than soccer does. Second, simply kicking it back the other way is called "bad soccer strategy". Although that is how 8-year olds play it, they soon learn that a good team doesn't do that because soccer is a passing and possession game.
Why is it that the soccer meme carriers feel so strongly about a game that they don't watch that they find the need to sink into absurdity in order to denigrate it?
