06-28-2018, 10:10 PM
davester wrote:
[quote=Lew Zealand]
[quote=cbelt3]
What they need is a 'shot clock' . You've got 1 minute to take a kick on goal or the opposing team gets the ball.
Nope. Adding rules to force a more artificial style of play is very American sports thing and will never happen. Soccer has a flow which is not always engaging but is always interesting. Hockey and basketball also have this at faster levels where baseball and football have little of this. The flow *is* the game.
I completely agree. I can't stand to watch american football because the (slow) pace is completely controlled by the referees and coaches and there is nothing going on for most of the game time, whereas soccer is vastly more interesting because it proceeds and evolves continuously, based only on what the players do. The job of the referee in soccer is to avoid getting in the way of the game. The job of the referee in american football is to control almost every moment of the game.
Another thing about dives. My experience watching soccer with americans who have never played the game is that they falsely call "dive" (egged on by conversations like the one in this thread) for many genuine falls. Since I play the game myself and frequently get knocked down due during play, I have a good understanding of how easy it is to end up on the ground after a collision or even a minor trip during a high speed run. Folks who've never played soccer don't have an understanding of this.
I am not questioning injuries. I used to play youth soccer. I am questioning the non-contact fake injuries that are revealed through replay in multiple angles showing no contact yet the person acts like they have just had a limb torn off.