6/21/2010 8:21:42 AM

because soccer is a shitty sport that allows ties

any sport that allows ties is pussy

grow a set of balls and find out who the winner is you simpering losers

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 8:25 AM. Reason : ]

6/21/2010 8:22:56 AM

6/21/2010 8:23:01 AM

hi.

you seem to have found a gif on the internet of a soccer player falling down.

congrats.

now realize that there's dozens of other threads of tons of other silly people saying the same thing you're saying.

can you and your cohorts keep it in one place, thnx.

6/21/2010 8:24:10 AM

lol, why are soccer fans such pussies

can't handle it when people piss on their shitty ass pussy sport

6/21/2010 8:25:32 AM

I wouldn't call that a "pussy" move. He was taking a big risk there, because if he was caught diving he would have gotten himself in trouble with the referee.

Plus, not that it made a big difference, but Brazil was pulling the same shit the entire game, and the ref didn't crack down on it.

Is it classless? Yes. Pussy? No. There are a few teams that pull this shit all the time. See: Italy.

But, as I've said before, you can't have good, classy teams without the evil, shithead ones to play against. The good can't exist without the bad.

6/21/2010 8:28:44 AM

can both just not exist at all?

6/21/2010 8:30:42 AM

I guess american sports can thanks soccer for being the bad that allows them to be good

6/21/2010 8:30:52 AM

This is the main reason that I avoid watching soccer. I enjoy their footwork skills, but most of those bitches need to man-up.

6/21/2010 8:31:28 AM

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That call was bullshit. Kaka didn't do shit, but got a red card
In fact, this whole World Cup has been full of bullshit calls -- more so than usual.
(The US got totally robbed)

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"why are soccer players such pussies? "

They aren't. They're actually so incredibly fucking tough, that they can afford to act like a pussy.
On average, soccer players are twice the athlete than any sissy quarterback, point guard, or pitcher.

6/21/2010 8:31:45 AM

It's a difficult situation to deal with because there are really only a few fixes:

1. Institute retroactive penalties for diving. This would involve FIFA reviewing the footage afterwards and issuing the player a suspension for the next game for simulation.

2. Add instant replay. This would stretch out the game, because the officials would review each call. Maybe it could be like gridiron football where coaches could sacrifice a substitution for a "call review," and if the call was reversed they kept their substitution.

However, what about situations where technically a foul was committed but the player exaggerated the effects? This is the hard part. A good example would be that animated gif. Kaka did walk right into the path of that player and put an elbow up and shove him off. Is that a foul? Yes. Did he hit him in the face? No. So, the review would show that Kaka did foul the player. What does the ref do then?

6/21/2010 8:39:57 AM

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"However, what about situations where technically a foul was committed but the player exaggerated the effects? This is the hard part. A good example would be that animated gif. Kaka did walk right into the path of that player and put an elbow up and shove him off. Is that a foul? Yes. Did he hit him in the face? No. So, the review would show that Kaka did foul the player. What does the ref do then?"

If it's a foul then he should get the foul.

I don't see why it would be a bad thing to have instant replay. It's not like other sports games drag out for 5 hours because of instant replay.

6/21/2010 8:41:56 AM

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"Kaka did walk right into the path of that player and put an elbow up and shove him off. Is that a foul? Yes."

Um, no, no, and no.

It looks like the Ivory Coast dude slapped himself.
Kaka did nothing wrong.

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM. Reason : ]

6/21/2010 8:43:39 AM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=581106

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM. Reason : ]

6/21/2010 8:44:14 AM

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"because soccer is a shitty sport that allows ties any sport that allows ties is pussy grow a set of balls and find out who the winner is you simpering losers"

So, the NFL and NHL are a bunch of pussies as well I guess.

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6/21/2010 8:56:22 AM

The NHL does not allow ties.

6/21/2010 8:59:43 AM

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"1. Institute retroactive penalties for diving. This would involve FIFA reviewing the footage afterwards and issuing the player a suspension for the next game for simulation. 2. Add instant replay. This would stretch out the game, because the officials would review each call. Maybe it could be like gridiron football where coaches could sacrifice a substitution for a "call review," and if the call was reversed they kept their substitution."

i think these are both horrible ideas

i mean, i know it's an entirely different situation, but it was quite convenient in rec soccer that whatever i ruled was what happened, no questions asked.

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"Kaka did walk right into the path of that player and put an elbow up and shove him off. Is that a foul? Yes."

um, no. did you even watch the match?

6/21/2010 9:02:39 AM

^Yes, including Fabiano's double handball goal.

6/21/2010 9:05:28 AM

lol at all the whiny bitches that haven't figured out that life is not fair - soccer is just an accurate representation of that - you can bitch all you want, but it isn't going to do any good.

Learn to play the "game" and use it to your advantage.

6/21/2010 11:18:54 AM

Hey guys, lets watch a USA soccer game, so we can see the refs completely fuck us over...yeah, that will be lots of fun, what a great sport where the refs completely fuck us over

And then after they fuck us over, they don't even give us an explanation for why they fucked us over

Yay soccer!

6/21/2010 11:25:48 AM

Hey guys let's watch a Raiders Patriots playoff game

6/21/2010 11:35:51 AM

How was that a red card?

Isn't a red card for something like really bad? That seems to be deserving of a yellow card at most, but more likely just a warning and free kick.

6/21/2010 11:37:11 AM

I'm trying to figure out how to take a huge NBA fan -- a fan of the league where it is a proven fact that officiating was influenced by gamblers and bookies -- seriously when he complains about officiating in another sport.

I haven't really found a way to pay him much attention, though.

(and to be clear, I AM a NBA fan)

6/21/2010 11:38:04 AM

greg paulus would be a soccer god

6/21/2010 11:38:55 AM

Tree (and everyone) should read these columns by Tim D. on the finals

http://deadspin.com/5555622/watching-the-watchmen-tim-donaghy-breaks-down-the-officiating-in-game-1

6/21/2010 11:40:33 AM

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"what a great sport where the refs completely fuck us over"

And this doesn't happen in every sport??

Football: Raiders/Patriots as mentioned up above, the fucking infamous 5th down call in Colorado game
Baseball: Took away an easy complete game this year
Basketball: Kings/Lakers in what seems like 20 years ago, Suns/Spurs about 5 years ago, etc.


I will say that the call in the US/Slovenia was probably one of the worst I've seen in ANY sport. But it does happen all the tim.

6/21/2010 11:40:35 AM

best thing about soccer is there are no commercials

6/21/2010 11:41:33 AM

Do refs assign penalties in soccer based on how injured a player is? That's the only reason I see for soccer players to fake injuries after they dive.

Players flop in basketball, but I never see them writhing around on the ground pretending they broke something.

6/21/2010 11:46:13 AM

^Yes.

And they do that in basketball, the difference is that soccer is much more of a contact sport than basketball.

In basketball, touching someone's hand is a foul. Egregious injury is almost automatically a technical or an ejection.

In soccer, there's plenty of rough physical contact that can be clean without a foul.

6/21/2010 11:48:09 AM

Contact isn't called foul in basketball due to threat of injury, it's called a foul when one player gains advantage because of the contact. People get injured in basketball all the time without anyone being ejected.

If player A smashes player B trying to dunk in the body from behind and sends him crashing into the goalpost in a crumpled heap, but he gets up immediately and doesn't pretend to be injured, player A will get a flagrant foul and possibly ejected.

If player A attempts to block player B but fouls him instead, and player B falls and tears his ACL, it's just a foul.

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 11:59 AM. Reason : ]

6/21/2010 11:58:37 AM

Yes, but the amount of injury (if legitimate) to a player indicates how clean the tackle was.

Example: Brazilian player slide tackles an Italian player.

Two ways this could play out:

It looks like a rough tackle, but the Italian player rolls off the tackle and gets right back up. Ref calls a simple foul.

It looks like a rough tackle, and it's confirmed by the Italian player writhing around in pain. Clearly the Brazilian player slid in hard and hit the Italian player in the back of the ankle. Red card.

6/21/2010 12:01:05 PM

if these "teams" just sat down and peacefully negotiated a compromise there would be no need to resort to soccer

6/21/2010 12:01:33 PM

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"That call was bullshit. Kaka didn't do shit, but got a red card "

It's karma for this fucking disgrace, which also got a red for the "offender":

6/21/2010 12:11:21 PM

only fruits, hipsters and eurotrash watch soccer.

6/21/2010 12:13:04 PM

lolz

6/21/2010 12:13:58 PM

only doctors, communists and 2nd-graders flip pancakes.

6/21/2010 12:15:18 PM

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"That call was bullshit. Kaka didn't do shit, but got a red card "

it was his second yellow.... (which = red)

shit like this happens in the nba and in college basketball too, you just don't see the fake face grabbing "pain rolls" like you do in soccer

6/21/2010 12:16:00 PM

guess you don't watch UNC basketball

6/21/2010 12:18:05 PM

because they run around for 90 minutes and have nothing to show for it.

they have to act like Greg Paulus so they can get the better player to get kicked out.

6/21/2010 12:18:27 PM

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"best thing about soccer is there are no commercials"

+1000000000000000000000000000000000000

I'm sick of all the alarm clock advertisements for the portable tv/cell phone and subway. I don't want to hear that noise unless I have too and my alarm clock is less annoying. If soccer had tv time outs then I couldn't watch this World Cup.

6/21/2010 12:18:59 PM

its funny considering soccer fans are so fuckin violent


they make oakland raider fans look like a golf audience

6/21/2010 12:19:48 PM

the other good thing about soccer is that it gives numerous tangible reasons to hate italians

diving, boring tactics, rampant racism, shooting flares at brazilians, etc.

6/21/2010 12:23:51 PM

6/21/2010 12:28:37 PM

^The coach was fired for that.

6/21/2010 12:29:34 PM

^HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

That shit is gold!

6/21/2010 12:29:47 PM

go to fuck yourself, you sonofabitch.

6/21/2010 12:30:38 PM

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"because they run around for 90 minutes and have nothing to show for it. "

wut?

6/21/2010 12:36:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ4vJ0BDhZU

6/21/2010 12:42:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioyt2zzm530&feature=related

wow, funny stuff

6/21/2010 12:49:04 PM

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"Is it classless? Yes. Pussy? No. There are a few teams that pull this shit all the time. See: Italy, Spain, & Cristiano Ronaldo ."

6/21/2010 12:50:00 PM