On Aug 30, 8:51*am, Peter Lucas > wrote:
> Time to ''spill my guts'' so to speak;
>
> I dont hate soccer, I just think it a sport that is mainly fun for
> kids to play, but lacks the detail and exitment that make for a great
> spectater sports for grown adults. In Australia, interest in soccer is
> high for children under 10 and then drops off gradually as kids get
> older, and by the time kids reach adulthood, they genarally have no
> further interest in the game.
>
> Soccer or ''football'' is big as a sport for kids in our country, but
> the sport has failed again and again to cross over into popularity
> either on the television or at the stadiums. The game draws very few
> spectaters and the professional leauue here is forever on the brink of
> collapse. We tend not to be interested in sports that attract
> hooligans and riots and lacks much stratagy. Why this (riots and
> violence) is so essential to the british version of the game we will
> never know. In Australia, spectater sports are family events, with a
> wholesome emphasis on community.
>
> There must be a way eliminate the hooligan element from the british
> culture so to advance the games image world wide? Ideas please?

You, sir, are a ****ing idiot of the highest order.

Go watch football in Italy. Or Spain. Or about 50 other countries.
Then come back and talk to us about hooligans.