In all seriousness... even if I could get past the fact that this is a low scoring, boring game to me, and even if I could get past the fact that a competitive sport could have matches that end in ties *cringe*... I cannot get past the fact that this sport encourages grown men to pretend to fall down and cry like 7 year old girls in order to get a competitive edge. In boxing, taking a dive will get you sanctioned and barred from the sport; in soccer it seems like it's page one in the playbook.
How do you reconcile the fact that this sport you love encourages its players to act like b*tches? Do you consider this baby-acting to be sportsmanlike? Do you actually approve of this tactic?
Seriously, what can you say to defend this practice?
2006-06-27
05:06:24
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Neerdowellian
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