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Originally Posted by MoParMan
"Mercellus Bohren" wrote in message
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On Aug 29, 6:45 pm, Viper wrote:
On 30/08/2010 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?
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Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
What a strange array of cross posting destinations. Ah well, you're sure
to rouse a few malformed cells from the bottom of a couple of gene pools
Viper
Ah, the "pointing out unique x-posted groups and then insulting them"
post.
Crank or Crack?
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I still love to play soccer. Watching it on TV is about as exciting as watching a car warm up, though. When I lived in Ecuador, the Copa America was going on (1992 or 93). Great times. The place was wild. Loved every second; especially how the cops lock everybody into the stadium so the riot doesn't spill out.
Word to the wise: don't try to pull the old fill a plastic bag with run, put it at the bottom of a thermos, then cover it up Coke to sneak into a game there. The cops ahve seen it before. I think that's the most I've ever put away in ten minutes.