06-23-2006, 07:05 AM
Quote:eppie, I don't think you understood my point. The players and the rules officials have in their control the integrity of the game. Their joint complicity in promoting falsehood and fraud damages to truth of what is happening on the field. Your excusing the "lawyer find a loophole" theme as excusable fraud" is part of the problem. Put differently, if you condone slavery, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
I love soccer.
I have nothing but comtempt for liars who try to cheat to win. Falsely trying to portray a slide tackle as injurious is cheating, since it uses falsehood to wrongly influence a referee to award a card designed to punicsh truly rough play. Leave the legal loophole crap in the courtrooms, keep it off the "football pitch."
Occhi
Too bad you didn't quote the other parts.
In soccer winning is so important, financially that people do a lot to win. Not only pretending to be injured, but e.g. as well the fact that except for very few countries everybody is playing defence...making it more boring then it should be. Soccer is big business, and also in business people try to find the loopholes.
In american sports it is not so important if you win or not (of course for the fans it is), it is more important to be a really 'cool' or 'crazy' person that can sell a lot of T-shirts or caps. That's why there are things like all-star games, dunking contests etc.
As I said, the american prof.sports system (although also overcommercialized) is better then the european system of soccer to my opinion. Still I believe, but that is just my opinion, that the game of soccer is much more interesting then basketball, baseball etc. (Of which I'm actually also a big fan, I went to watch several NBA and MLB matches when I was in the US and I hope one day I can also go and see NHL and NFL games)