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Post by mitch on Sept 21, 2008 13:05:30 GMT
why is that pommies and euros get so pissed when we call it soccer
i mean its not really football cause football is full contact
and is it just me or is the world cup really for world diva challenge on who can look the most pathetic and stay down for the longest time to try and get a penalty
i mean, give me a fucking break that totti was fouled by australia in the quarter finals of the world cup
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Post by THE Soccergalaxy on Sept 21, 2008 13:23:19 GMT
Despite my name, I think football is infinitely more fun to watch. The World Cup is pretty cool too however.
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Post by BigFake on Sept 21, 2008 13:31:47 GMT
Tough one, I prefer to watch Rugby more than Soccer (Although I'm a bigger soccer fan), and American Football is similar to Rugby in a lot of ways, but I find the games that I've seen from the NFL are just too slow. Stop, start, stop start, commerical break, timeout, so I'll have to go for Soccer on this one.
Oh, and just as a sidenote, I used to be annoyed by people calling it Soccer, until I discovered that it was us English that called it soccer (Short for Association Football) first, so we didn't get confused with the much more popular at the time Rugby Football.
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Post by fairysky on Sept 21, 2008 20:51:04 GMT
I've never seen a American football match, but going by Rugby, you never get a boring game, even if it's a poor one. Rugby, no matter what, is a really watchable sport.
There is just something about Soccer though that I will always like more though.
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Post by BigFake on Sept 21, 2008 23:24:32 GMT
I've never seen a American football match, but going by Rugby, you never get a boring game, even if it's a poor one. Rugby, no matter what, is a really watchable sport. There is just something about Soccer though that I will always like more though. I know where you're coming from. By the way, decent result for Hull today eh? I really thought they'd struggle this year but they're defying the odds so far. |
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Post by fairysky on Sept 22, 2008 7:47:42 GMT
I know, although the worst part is, it was kinda disappointing.
If before the match, someone had given you 1 point for a draw with Everton, I'd have bitten their hand off. But when you get that result after you're 2 - 0 up for 70 minutes, you feel a little robbed of 2 points.
But, yeah I think City are doing amazing so far, especially after listening to the 1st half. They sounded like a proper premiership team.
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Post by THE Soccergalaxy on Sept 22, 2008 19:57:39 GMT
How do you guys get so excited over the premiership? The same teams win every year.
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Post by fairysky on Sept 22, 2008 20:11:16 GMT
I'm not excited over the premiership, I'm excited about Hull City being in the premiership. I'm only really interested where they finish, I'm really not fussed about the top 4. Unless by some miracle we end up in there.
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Post by BigFake on Sept 22, 2008 20:32:43 GMT
How do you guys get so excited over the premiership? The same teams win every year. The premiership has been in a slump for 5 or more years now, it's pretty terrible. I only *really* follow League One at the moment, and that's only because Leeds are there. |
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Post by fairysky on Sept 22, 2008 20:42:55 GMT
I kinda like the lower divisions more than the premiership. It's entertaining, and it's not all about who spends the record amount, and all that.
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Post by THE Soccergalaxy on Sept 22, 2008 20:55:23 GMT
So if you don't care about how your team is doing, whats the point?
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Post by fairysky on Sept 22, 2008 21:35:35 GMT
Was that question for me?
Because I said I only care about how my team is doing.
I'm not into the premiership as a whole.
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Post by jacktyler on Sept 27, 2008 17:29:39 GMT
Well right now, Chelsea are top (2nd last year) and Liverpool are 2nd (4th last year), whereas Man United are quite low down the table (1st last year). You can bank on it being one of four teams who'll win it, but you can never really guarantee exactly who it will be.
Plus, the Premier League isn't just about the top spot. You 2nd, 3rd and 4th spots getting you into the UEFA Champions League, the 5th spot getting you into the UEFA Cup, and then there's the relegation battle. You don't have to be one of the best clubs in the league to have something going on involving your team, which is why it's such an exciting league.
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