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<blockquote data-quote="somethingtobelievein" data-source="post: 84236" data-attributes="member: 90">It&#039;s a dumb sport period, even as sports go.It can only be considered good in a world where other sports to compare it to don&#039;t exist.&nbsp; The design is slow and clunky.&nbsp; Movement is limited by the nature of how one must move the ball around.&nbsp; This takes it away from being a game of athletics and more to one of a niche skill: like juggling or bowling or similar.&nbsp; The dexterity required to do the little back and forth moves may be exceptional, it might be really really impressive, but like professional juggling it&#039;s boring to watch, especially if you&#039;ve gotten used to watching top athletes in other sports where their movement isn&#039;t hindered.Hockey is an easy parallel: you&#039;ve got net/goal, apparatus (puck/ball), can&#039;t carry the apparatus, must move with apparatus (can&#039;t go offsides), and so on.&nbsp; If you are introduced to hockey before soccer, there&#039;s really no reason to be interested in the latter.&nbsp; &quot;Imagine soccer but the field (oh I&#039;m sorry, the &#039;pitch&#039;) is 4 times as big, the ball is a beach ball that moves really slow, and everyone has to wear ankle weights.&quot; That&#039;s what going from hockey to soccer is like (that plus soccer players all having to act like faggots as some apparent requirement.)That&#039;s before even getting to how retarded the rules and format are.&nbsp; Every sport made after soccer has figured out &quot;hey it makes more sense to count time down so when it runs out it&#039;s the end, and when play stops the clock stops.&quot; Soccer just like &#039;nah we&#039;ll count up and just keep the clock running even if the ball flies into the stands then just kinda guess how much time needs to be added at the end really incentivising the team in the lead to delay with no strict rules stopping them every time play is stopped.&#039;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="somethingtobelievein, post: 84236, member: 90"] It's a dumb sport period, even as sports go. It can only be considered good in a world where other sports to compare it to don't exist. The design is slow and clunky. Movement is limited by the nature of how one must move the ball around. This takes it away from being a game of athletics and more to one of a niche skill: like juggling or bowling or similar. The dexterity required to do the little back and forth moves may be exceptional, it might be really really impressive, but like professional juggling it's boring to watch, especially if you've gotten used to watching top athletes in other sports where their movement isn't hindered. Hockey is an easy parallel: you've got net/goal, apparatus (puck/ball), can't carry the apparatus, must move with apparatus (can't go offsides), and so on. If you are introduced to hockey before soccer, there's really no reason to be interested in the latter. "Imagine soccer but the field (oh I'm sorry, the 'pitch') is 4 times as big, the ball is a beach ball that moves really slow, and everyone has to wear ankle weights." That's what going from hockey to soccer is like (that plus soccer players all having to act like faggots as some apparent requirement.) That's before even getting to how retarded the rules and format are. Every sport made after soccer has figured out "hey it makes more sense to count time down so when it runs out it's the end, and when play stops the clock stops." Soccer just like 'nah we'll count up and just keep the clock running even if the ball flies into the stands then just kinda guess how much time needs to be added at the end really incentivising the team in the lead to delay with no strict rules stopping them every time play is stopped.' [/QUOTE]

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