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
Occhi, since the time sports became something to earn money with, the integrity was lost.
I personally have a lot more problems with the fact that people can make millions per year just by kicking, hitting or throwing a ball, than with the fact that they fake injuries.
Quote:. Just another indication that motor sports get no respect in the mainstream media.
--Pete
No it is an indication that motor sports suck. Why do you need to get respect for driving around in a car?
Take Michael Schumacher. He makes all in all around 50 million dollars per year....for doing a sport 4.8 billion people in this world didn't even try to do once....so the chance that there are 1000s of people better them him is quite big.
If there is one sport that is only there for commercial reasons its motor sports.