World Cup Discussion Thread

[eppie]

But why care about that? Let those silly americans watch their American Football instead :P

This tournament was indeed no advertisement for football. Personally I'm getting more and more annoyed by it.

Well after a night of little sleep because a bunch of morons went around all night blowing their carhorns....
I can say that I'm happy this tournament is finished..it was bad, uninteresting and a general outrage.

The fact with soccer is that for most fans the result is the most important....even if your team plays lousy. (of course this sounds logical). In Italy soccer is extremely popular and so many people go to the stadiums every week or used payTV to see matches....and they play so negative.
The are able to get the best players of the world....only to make them do nothing else than defending. Point is, the fans are so much attached to their team (it is a way of life) that indeed the only thing that counts is the result.

A team like portugal has absoltely no problem with making a complete fool of them selfs by crying, faking injuries and trying to make the opponenet so angry that they make a foul and get send off. This has absolutely nothing to do with football but, because the result is so important it happens.

I think things really need to change in football. Say, lose the offside rule, use electronic tools to help the refs.
ike I said before this is a difficult subject in football, but this tournament showed that negativism is getting to important....and that needs to be stopped.