toadie_uk
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Pardon me for disliking racists...
toadie_uk":2skr3ys7 said:Pardon me for disliking racists...
CALIHAWK1":1izoxqw7 said:peachesenregalia":1izoxqw7 said:CALIHAWK1":1izoxqw7 said:InSuarezWeTrust said:Shaz said:One of the main reasons why Soccer will never be as big as any other sport here in America
1. Ties
2. Flopping
3. Low scoring
If this guy does flopping and bitching, then he's everything that's wrong with the sport
Please leave this thread and don't come back.
Yes. The truth shall not be spoken in this thread.
Yeah, because guys never flop in basketball. Because a cumulative points league is just so bad for sports. Because hockey and baseball aren't low scoring.
Soccer won't be big in America because Americans are shite at it. You guys only like sports that are pretty much exclusively played in America at the professional level. That way all of the best players in that sport come here to play. You can't do that with soccer, so you don't like it. It's only the most popular sport in the entire world by a silly margin. I guess the rest of the world is wrong then?
When Italy and England went 0-0 after 90 minute I blanked out.
SmokinHawk":ylkaw79n said:Players like this are why I can't take soccer seriously.
Player of the year in the EPL. Gareth Bale and Robin Van Persie can feast on 1000 dicks.
Uncle Si":2wmfelpi said:Calihawk... thats a common debate with American soccer. I just disagree with it. First, more kids ages 5-14 play organized soccer than all the other sports combined. And its not that close. Look it up.
The best athlete thing is purely American. Soccer players are world class athletes. The speed, balance, agility and strength they have while using their feet to control the ball is extraordinary. Its too easy to assume that calvin johnson or lebron james would just become world class soccer players if they grew up playing. As if the rest of the world only has 175 pound 5foot 8 men in their populace. The game is far more than that. If it wasn't why wouldn't the germans or dutch produced these 6 foot 8 soccer players. Is america the only country that has these athletes?
Not saying its impossible. But honestly our best athletes play soccer as well.
We just havent made them the elite soccer players yet. (thats a whole different post about the failures of youth soccer here)
CALIHAWK1":1wn44wty said:Uncle Si":1wn44wty said:Calihawk... thats a common debate with American soccer. I just disagree with it. First, more kids ages 5-14 play organized soccer than all the other sports combined. And its not that close. Look it up.
The best athlete thing is purely American. Soccer players are world class athletes. The speed, balance, agility and strength they have while using their feet to control the ball is extraordinary. Its too easy to assume that calvin johnson or lebron james would just become world class soccer players if they grew up playing. As if the rest of the world only has 175 pound 5foot 8 men in their populace. The game is far more than that. If it wasn't why wouldn't the germans or dutch produced these 6 foot 8 soccer players. Is america the only country that has these athletes?
Not saying its impossible. But honestly our best athletes play soccer as well.
We just havent made them the elite soccer players yet. (thats a whole different post about the failures of youth soccer here)
As far as more kids playing it than any other sport, I believe it. That is probably counting girls though too? Football and baseball don't even have a punchers chance.
Next if you look at the cutoff age being around 14 years. Many places around the country don't have football available until then. I understand it is the fastest growing sport and with player safety I assume that parents will tend to lean towards leaving them in soccer rather than letting them try out for football. As of right now as long as teenage American boys want to get laid they'll be turning their shin guards and soccer cleats in for shoulder pads and helmets as soon as they hit high school.
Also before I forget, our women do play through high school and college and they are halfway decent. That said I can imagine that if American males did the same the results would be similar. That's just me dreaming though.
peachesenregalia":wt9xynj5 said:toadie_uk":wt9xynj5 said:Pardon me for disliking racists...
shelve it, twat.
toadie_uk":1v8k85gk said:peachesenregalia":1v8k85gk said:toadie_uk":1v8k85gk said:Pardon me for disliking racists...
shelve it, twat.
And now I see why you like scum like him... birds of a feather and all that
toadie_uk":1nbs1ehr said:I have only said that I dislike him because of his racist comments and then responded to being called a twat, I don't need a lesson in football etiquette, I've been on enough pitches in my time and I'd never put up with racist language anywhere.
toadie_uk":3gqfgmyi said:You make some interesting points... I disagree on the whole but see your point... now could we not have done this without dismissing me with a 'grow-up' or name-calling like peaches?
P.S RE: Terry - I concur entirely but that doesn't really affect my opinion on Suarez
toadie_uk":3i30yjfb said:I'm at Uni in Leeds and work for Leeds United but my heart belongs to Bolton! Peaches - there's a difference between a short, if slightly disparaging comment and calling someone a twat... We're all #12s here and I don't expect to be sworn at for raising an opinion