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<blockquote data-quote="sanzar" data-source="post: 194317"><p>Interesting topic. Soccer was actually the first team sport I played as a kid, and I did enjoy it at the time, but it was a very ethnically lopsided team with about 90% of the kids being Greek and I got a fair bit of stick being one of only 2 white kids (though not as bad as BLR by the sounds, cause some of them were alright). I then went and played league, and my team was probably more ethnically diverse and pretty working class, but the players and families were so much friendlier and more welcoming and there was just a sense of comradery that I never felt playing soccer. Eventually I became a Union man and I've never really looked back. For me Rugby has everything and is suited to all types of people, whereas other sports like soccer (and increasingly Rugby League) are suited to really only one type of physique and size.</p><p> To be honest though, I never really minded soccer for a long time and would watch the odd international with Australia (though I could never identify with any of the European clubs on any level or respect the attitudes of the players enough to start following any European team or League), but over the last ten years or so I've really begun to really dislike it because of a number of the reasons already stated, but also because soccer fans I've encountered in Sydney (and Aus in general) started to get really arrogant over the last 5 or 6 years. Always crapping on about how they support the 'world game' because it's "beautiful and rewards skill and technique instead of violence like rugby". Sure soccer requires skill, but get f#cked... I mean European soccer is the biggest in the world, but it's also a hotbed of corruption and deprivation... it's not beautiful and the players dive at the drop of a hat and you can't respect that. Especially when one considers the controversies the players are involved in as well (ones that make the Bulldogs in the NRL seem like upstanding citizens) and that soccer fans are the most violent and unruly of any sport. Then of course came the move to try ban the use of the word soccer in Aus by criticising people who used it. Sorry, but not a clever way to endear yourselves to the public.</p><p>The sport itself on pure merit alone I think can be brilliant, but it's still a massively flawed and negative game in my opinion and too many games are played in the vein of the last RWC final (ie teams trying not to lose rather than to win). And seriously, why can't soccer get with the times technologically? Why can't they bring in a video match official to keep an eye on divers? They could keep the refs ear and red card them immediately. They could even do what the NRL does and have a post match review committee to check fowl play and also to give severe bans to any player caught clearly diving who was not pinned during the game).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sanzar, post: 194317"] Interesting topic. Soccer was actually the first team sport I played as a kid, and I did enjoy it at the time, but it was a very ethnically lopsided team with about 90% of the kids being Greek and I got a fair bit of stick being one of only 2 white kids (though not as bad as BLR by the sounds, cause some of them were alright). I then went and played league, and my team was probably more ethnically diverse and pretty working class, but the players and families were so much friendlier and more welcoming and there was just a sense of comradery that I never felt playing soccer. Eventually I became a Union man and I've never really looked back. For me Rugby has everything and is suited to all types of people, whereas other sports like soccer (and increasingly Rugby League) are suited to really only one type of physique and size. To be honest though, I never really minded soccer for a long time and would watch the odd international with Australia (though I could never identify with any of the European clubs on any level or respect the attitudes of the players enough to start following any European team or League), but over the last ten years or so I've really begun to really dislike it because of a number of the reasons already stated, but also because soccer fans I've encountered in Sydney (and Aus in general) started to get really arrogant over the last 5 or 6 years. Always crapping on about how they support the 'world game' because it's "beautiful and rewards skill and technique instead of violence like rugby". Sure soccer requires skill, but get f#cked... I mean European soccer is the biggest in the world, but it's also a hotbed of corruption and deprivation... it's not beautiful and the players dive at the drop of a hat and you can’t respect that. Especially when one considers the controversies the players are involved in as well (ones that make the Bulldogs in the NRL seem like upstanding citizens) and that soccer fans are the most violent and unruly of any sport. Then of course came the move to try ban the use of the word soccer in Aus by criticising people who used it. Sorry, but not a clever way to endear yourselves to the public. The sport itself on pure merit alone I think can be brilliant, but it's still a massively flawed and negative game in my opinion and too many games are played in the vein of the last RWC final (ie teams trying not to lose rather than to win). And seriously, why can't soccer get with the times technologically? Why can't they bring in a video match official to keep an eye on divers? They could keep the refs ear and red card them immediately. They could even do what the NRL does and have a post match review committee to check fowl play and also to give severe bans to any player caught clearly diving who was not pinned during the game). [/QUOTE]
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