Football sucks.

[Trejiuvanat]

You got it wrong Thrawn, it sucks because it can awake strong feelings of disappointment in people, that can also be extreme nation-wide joy.

 

I think Jahled (who started the thread) will agree with me, that Football rules over any other teamsport.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

Ah, so it sucks if your team looses, but if they win, it's the best game in the world? That's why I don't get onto sports... well except hockey, but few Canadians... er Chiss don't like hockey.

 

Edit: I just had a thought on Chiss hockey. It wouldn't work. Both teams would be waiting until the other touched the puck. But that wouldn't happen because that would be considered a pre-emptive attack on the other team.

[Jahled]

I thought this thread was about how much football (soccer) sucked! It has turned into a pro-football (soccer) thread!

 

Emm...a famous football manager-I think Bill Shankley-once said of football; 'It's not a question of life or death; it's more important than that.'

 

WOO* Costa Rica!!!

 

*Fully clickable action packed Woo!

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

Perhaps you could edit that so the claws stab him in the head> That would be quite satifying...

[Trejiuvanat]

There it is.

 

BRAZIL wins Copa América.

 

After a last minute goal (93') Brazil ties with Argentina in the final and wins 5-3 in the penalties.

 

Yet one more title for the Brazilians, that have won basically everything there is in the football world.

 

Congrats!

[Trejiuvanat]

Happy me,

 

COSTA RICA 4 - Portugal 2

 

Gotta love olympic football!

 

Now we're up against Argentina, and most likely will get our butt kicked out of Greece.

[Jahled]

Oooh! It just keeps on getting better!

 

Oldest league in the world...

[Lord_La_forge]

Well Football sucks anyway...

 

But today, for some reason, I've turned on my C64 and loaded a game, older than me...

 

after playing a few rounds with my Bro', I realized, that Football is a wonderful thing:

 

http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=289&picid=1

 

I love Andrew Spencer!

[Jahled]

Ha hahahahahaha!

 

I actually remember owning a C64, ZX-Spectrum, and ZX-81! At the time we all thought the games were the cutting edge of technology and cool, and used to bunk of school to play Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, and Elite on the BBC..

 

Just how drunk were you both to see that one through me old mucker?

[Lord_La_forge]

Just how drunk were you both to see that one through me old mucker?

 

Sadly, we're like this in general!

[Jahled]

Must be something you guys picked up off Atilla and his mob.

[Lord_La_forge]

Must be something you guys picked up off Atilla and his mob.

 

Could be!

[AdmiralFishface]

England - Austria

2:2!

Who'd have thought!

[Jahled]

England - Austria

2:2!

Who'd have thought!

 

Who indeed. Except our muppet excuse for a goalkeeper. Mumble.

[Imperator2]

Just thought I'd reignite this topic by putting in my own two ha'pennies worth.

 

I absolutely loath football. My father was the coach/manager of my local Boy Scout group and to be in the team I had to be 5 times better than the average player to even be considered. I was constantly embarassed and reduced to tears ( well I was only 8/10 ), and had to enjoy years of being abused on the pitch with taunts of 'cissy', 'pansy', 'big girls blouse' from my own father. Any love for the game was thrashed out of me by the time of my early teens.

 

I am appalled at the grotesque amount of money at all levels of the game, of constantly reading in the Daily Mail ( I read this paper because it fuels my paranoia of the world ), of 20 something thugs and hooligans being paid obscene amounts of money to kick an inflated replica of a pigs bladder around a field and the sheer mindless, adolescent tribalism that the game carries with it ie my teams better than yours, no it is'nt, yes it is, we won you lost........ad nauseaum.

 

Its like reliving World War I in city centres all over England EVERY Saturday night. There are decent law abiding football fans, but the game is inundated with eighteen year olds who drink a pint of lager and want to take the world and his wife on. Many a football fan has made the mistake of uttering that mindless thug litany 'You looking at me......Mate' to me, and have consequently lived to regret annoying my guests and I.

 

It is a game ruined by money and celebrity interest / status, and in the case of English teams is no longer a mans game, but is one played by over indulged, spoilt, prissy little twats, who in many cases are'nt even English, and do not act like men, more like silly little boys & girls. Why do we have constant football exposure??? To turn us all into mindless controllable morons I have seen games advertised on TV of things like 'Clash of Titans...... Sheffield Utd vs Woolagong Spartans....tonight at seven', CHRIST, give us a break!!!!!!!!!!!

 

American Football is more interesting and is definitely more tactical, but seeing as I am not a spectator ( I take part and compete or nothing ), it's a moot point for me.

 

Now I've really gone and done it

[Mad78]

I find Football quite boring. I mean... 22 players runing from one side of a pitch to another and scoring 2 goals in 1 hours and a half tends to put me to sleep rapidly. Australian football is much better.

I wass thinking of typing out a sketch of Billy Connelly for Imperator about Football violence. But i don't know if its proper.

[Imperator2]

Please email me the sketch.... I'd love to read it

[Mad78]

I would if yu gave me your email. And i can send you the mp3.

[Imperator2]

Will drop you a line Mad78....thanks

 

Have just heard on the news that Emlyn Hughes has sadly left us. A great footballer and ambassador for his country, and a genuinely lovely man to boot. For all my hatred of football, I have to say he will be sorely missed both as a man and a great footballer. My condolences to his family.

[Mad78]

Even if i have never heard of him my thoughts go to his family.