> You saw it this month. Spain, European champions, ninety times the population, controlled the ball for 70 per cent of the first half and took twenty-seven shots at Cape Verde, who were playing in their first World Cup ever, and could not score once. Cape Verde, a nation the size of Guilford County, North Carolina, then drew all three of their group games and advanced to the knockout round. If this were a one-off, it’d be a great underdog story.
> But it happens all the time. In 2018, Iceland, population 350 000, tied Argentina. If tennis worked this way, nobody would ever win more than one Grand Slam, and there’d be a new group of people you’d never heard of in the quarterfinals every time. Which is to say, with soccer, most of what you’re watching is luck. It’s like watching professional roulette on television.

>>157053976
>soccer
stopped reading, a amerimutt's opinion does not matter.

> But the worst part, the thing that should disqualify soccer as a sport at all, is that a huge share of games end in a tie. Nobody wins. It’s the most anti-competitive outcome in sports—two hours of intense effort that fails to produce a winner—and in soccer it’s not a fluke, it’s routine. More than a quarter of World Cup matches end in a draw, and in some leagues it approaches forty per cent. Imagine a movie that just stops at ninety minutes, wherever the plot happens to be—sometimes at the ending, sometimes not—because that’s the rule.
> Most matches are decided by a single goal, and many by none at all. One goal is the whole game. And goals almost never come (only about one shot in ten finds the net), and the team that scores first wins two-thirds of the time. Put these statistics together and the incentives are perverse. Giving up a goal is catastrophic, and the chance of scoring isn’t worth the risk of getting caught upfield when the other team counterattacks. So from the opening whistle the smart play isn’t to attack—it’s to play not to lose. Hold your chanc

>>157053976
It's simple really

Remove the off side rule

>>157053982
People harp on this without saying that all the Cabo Verde players play in Europe. They aren't random farmers.

>>157053995
>>157053982
> But that's why it's so tragic. Soccer takes the largest, most brutally filtered athletic talent pool on earth and wastes it by paying players millions of dollars to jog around in circles for ninety minutes and try to score once with their feet. Soccer was never designed to be watched. It just grew: cheap, simple, fun to play, and carried around the globe by an empire that owned a quarter of it. By the time anyone thought to ask whether it was fun to watch, it was already everywhere.
> Soccer's rules were written down in England in 1863, before any of the good sports existed. By the time someone built a game where you could use your hands, where scoring was common and luck was rare, soccer already had a half-century head start and most of the world's children. It isn't popular because it's the best. It's popular because it got there first.

>>157053982
Cabo Verde players play outside of Cabo Verde

They are professionals, you retarded

Youre not in 1960 anymore

didnt real lol

>>157053976
>Why soccer is boring
>Article written right after the author watched a Spain game
I don't blame them.

>>157053976
>>157053982
>>157053995
>>157054014
Most of these are good things

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>>157053976
>Mutt
>Opinion
>On football

Why do mutts constantly write gay long ass think pieces on why they don't like football. NOBODY is reading that shit

>>157053976
>>157053982
Imagine thinking the problem with soccer is that there's TOO MUCH parity and the same teams don't win ENOUGH. Easily one of the most retarded articles ever written.

>the underdog has realistic chances to create kino
>this is why it is bad
mutts, not even once

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>>157054198
>moor
>calls others mutts

>not knowing the outcome of the game before they even play is somehow bad

>>157053976
The average game of American Football is ten times more boring. This is coming from someone who got a free education by playing it.

Third worldies are NOT happy about this thread

>>157054352

Some autist posted a graph for American sports and I can't find it, but the better team wins like 95%+ of the time in Basketball and Football. Hockey and Baseball have a better rate for less foregone conclusion. I will not read the article though.

>>157053976
>soccer
>amerimutt
into the trash it goes

>>157054014
>carried around the globe by an empire that owned a quarter of it.
Football is not popular in former British colonies. They prefer handegg and cricket

>>157053995
>Imagine a movie that just stops at ninety minutes, wherever the plot happens to be—sometimes at the ending, sometimes not
Kek mutts are too used to WWE
It's way harder to rig football because of all this

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>Game ends in a draw
>Counts as a loss for both teams
This fixes soccer.

>>157054450
You got a scholarship? Did you ever mention to your teammates how boring it was, kek. I saw a few matches on my hear abroad, but we just messed around drunk in the crowd and didn't pay much attention.

>>157054660
Draws are kino in sports with high scores where it's rare, so disagree with the fatty that there must be a winner.
In low scoring sports though they're absolute shit. Recipe for snoozers.

>>157053982

I agree that on a per match basis, there can be a lot of luck involved in football, and it's probably the ballsport where the worst team can eek out a result most often, but claiming that it's all luck is peak lolmurrica mentality. Only 8 teams have ever won the WC in 23 editions. Mutt sports are much more 'luck' based in terms of winners.

>>157053976
In any given soccer match only about 7 minutes or so actually matters. Spain had over 900 passes. Maybe 150 of them or so actually improved field position and led to a sequence that could maybe lead to a shot on goal

Note how im not saying only shots on goal matter. It’s more like there’s so many sequences that don’t even advance field position, where everyone just constantly farts around and resets mid field over and over.

It’s so fucking boring. No wonder nfl is growing overseas. It dramatically reduces the issue of “meaningless plays”. Even a really garbage sequence of one first down into punt at least advanced the field position. If the spain Argentina game was the equivalent in American football, it would’ve been something like an 18-0 blowout. Sure they didn’t get any touchdowns but simply by outplaying the opponents they were able to get a large amount of field goals. Then we would have been spared a bunch of wasted extra time.

PLEASE like our sport Mr Big Strong American!
We NEED you to fix the rules!

>>157054660
Did you not watch the world cup? Literally the most rigged sporting event I’ve ever seen in my life. I thought the NFL was bad but even something horrible like an overturned pick six isn’t as bad as a goal being called back on some VAR faggotry

>>157054977
I mean yeah you literally do, you’ll never ever fix VAR, your shit offsides rule, your arbitrary extra time unless Americans tell you to

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>>157053976
>The favorite fails to win 45 per cent of the time.
>and win 55% of the time, which is above 50%, which is good
>not to mention actual, real, home court advantage, unlike burgerstani sports
So you are telling me that the favorites will win most of the times, but it's not that rare that they will get BTFO? Sounds awesome.

Much better than knowing Massachusetts Black Gooners will probably beat Las Vergas Betters by 100 points before the game even started. At least you can speedwatch a couple hundred ads and eat chicken nuggets during the 100s of timeouts during it

>>157055032
There is home advantage in all sports we play here

>>157054978
Why shouldn't the ref cancel the goal if the var spots a foul/offside?

>>157055112
Did you not watch the WC? They just make shit up and give you a fake and gay graph

oof this article really hit close to home

>>157055112
Mate it’s a fucking sport, the fact you have the bozo VAR forensics team making sure a player’s ballsack isn’t one planck length offsides is anti-sport, it completely deflates the soul of the game

>>157055123
I assume you never watched football pre var, Real Madrid literally got 3 free UCLs due to blatantly wrong calls

Americans are gonna use us as scapegoat to implement a shot clock in football. Don't blame us when it happens, blame (((them))).

>>157055223
It’s almost like your sport is bad and easy to rig and your really poorly made offsides rule lets it happen easily. Just use a grid, that’s where we got it from mate, if two players are in the same grid block it’s not offsides and really easy to verify

>>157055066
>There is home advantage in all sports we play here
pffffffffffthahahaHhaHAHAHAHAHAHHA yeah, sure
>D FENCE
>D FENCE
geg

>>157055123
>it's fake because i said so
strong argument.

>>157055373
it's quantifiably demonstrable, smelly.

>>157055373
Yeah the home time wins a majority of games in every sport we play

>>157055112
>>157055382
>The ball touched a guy's hair. NO GOAL
>Here's a graph that shows a spike and nothing else, even though it hit another player a fraction of a second later
:^)

>>157053976
most (((random))) sport which coincidentally also has the biggest sports betting market

>>157055382
It’s not an argument it’s a statement of fact. They literally just make shit up. Most of the time they don’t even give you real footage it’s some fake and gay CG shit showing oh my science an elbow was 1mm offsides trust the science

>>157053982
>soccer fags have the audacity to call baseball “luckswing”

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>>157055403
Nah your chants were better back in the 20s when they used to be racist and vulgar like ours

>>157055452
and you were in the room? or was there an admission by one of the VAR officials that they were doing this?

>>157055538
What kind of weird chatGPT response is this? The World Cup was watched by millions of people

>>157054660
>It's way harder to rig football because of all this
lmao, good one Nige.

>>157055562
right but they didn't televise them inventing the renderings based on their feelies. So I'm struggling to see where you have these as facts rather than your own confident speculation. How are you getting so confused by this?

>>157055474
Only VARgentinians and Infantino defend this thougheverbeithaps

>>157055403
>>157055406
There is a reason I said >real

>>157055590
Where is the pulled pork sandwich you’re referring to?

The World Cup was watched by millions of people where are you getting the pulled pork?

>>157055588
zoomer detected. there was rampant rigging before VAR. Offside were wrong all the time before the video reviews, sometimes egregiously. At least now it has to be close to even consider rigging.

>>157053976
>By this measure soccer is the most random major sport there is. The favorite fails to win 45 per cent of the time.
That's partially what makes it so fun

>>157055538
>>157055590
The bot is just completely broken and going in circles, VAR is CG, you would know this if you watched a single game which millions of people watched

>>157055360
Wouldn't work, the forward just need 1 meter advantage and the defender is fucked 99% of the time. Defenders would have to camp lines and the sport would become retarded like other American sports

>>157055425
Before you had guys 1 meter offside scoring and people seeing it on the live replay while they were still cheering and the goal would stand

>>157053976
>The favorite fails to win 45 per cent of the time.
Sure, that's why there is only 8 nations that won the WC in the history.

>>157055620
A defended being out of position and beaten should be punished anon. You realize this is how offsides works in every single sport besides fifa, even soccer itself. You are not beholden to ever shifting offsides rules.

You understand a 1m difference would require excellent timing and skill from the pass right?

>>157055617
you're forcing this too hard. you misapplied the word "fact" and you're being a low IQ schizo. it's okay to admit it (or to go to another thread butthurt that other people mock your zoomer hysteria)

>>157055662
Defenders literally train to put the forward in offside. Also you can apply the same argument to the forward

>>157055620
>>157055648
>1 meter offsides
Yeah that’s how the sport is actually played in real life, when you played with your mates you didn’t have some incel on the sidelines acting as a ref. Offsides should only be enforced by blatant cherry picking, 10m offsides

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>>157055360
>Just use a grid, that’s where we got it from mate, if two players are in the same grid block it’s not offsides and really easy to verify
I almost agree with this but if you receive the ball in the same grid block as the (second to) last defender it should be offside

>>157055684
>defenders train to account for shit rules
This is irrelevant. Every player also trains to dive and flop to take advantage of shitty rules. Your sport does not functionally work because you guys have completely lost on the plot.

You’re the only sport that doesn’t understand why offsides even exists. Going beyond sports, it’s the only competitive activity in which your time allocated is random as well

>>157055692
And I remember camping the opponent side waiting for a long ball, also cards not existing and refereeing being decided among players. Still wouldn't want for the sport to be played like this at pro level

>>157055673
Bot is utterly broken

World Cup was watched by humans

>>157055595
I hate Argentina with a genocidal fury but a foul is a foul.

>>157055648
Shit happens, at least you could live in the moment.
Look at this kino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAH4Qm5M84
Everyone played the whistle and got on with life.

>>157055733
i don't know how you're so illiterate to think that this is something I'm contesting or this is something that refutes what I said. watching the world cup very obviously doesn't rise to level of knowing that they fabricated the offside lines. post about porkchops again zoomertard lol

>>157055729
>And I remember camping the opponent side waiting for a long ball
1) cherry picking isn’t actually effective because you are playing down one player
2) this is also fixed with a grid to designate clear offsides

>>157055713
Nobody cares about your sports because they're all boring as hell. Football is doing fine

>>157055754
> you are playing down one player
most teams don't have 11 behind the ball

>>157055750
Bot is completely broken

Doesn’t know that people actually watched the World Cup and is now going in circles about pineapples and milk

>>157055769
can't tell if you are bad at reading or just deflecting autistically because you don't want to face reality.

>>157055758
>football is doing fine
You call that WC fine? It was complete shit.

You guys care about out sports considering the rampant growth of the NFL mostly comes from overseas viewership. They add several games every season for this reason.

Your sport is completely fucked too when the gamble cattle realize how suited nfl is for it

>>157055595
>actual differences in score based on home/away aren't real
good one

>>157055785
>bot thinks people didn’t watch the World Cup
Where is your milk? The pineapples? What the bot going to do? Drink some of the milk?

>>157055707
Regarding offside, goalkeepers shouldn't be used for the offside calculation. If the keeper fucks up and gets out of position a team shouldn't need to suddenly unlearn everything they've trained for.
A team missed out on a goal because of this.

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>>157055791
>the world cup attended and viewed by a gazillion people was fine
>you guys care about NFL because 30k europeans watch it

>>157055737
There are still people seething about bullshit goals from 60 years ago
>>157055754
It very much is, Argentina played 1 men down during the defence part and reached final. You don't understand the sport, you never watched it, you never played it and any american influence is poison. For example this tournament's dogshit refereeing was largely thanks to refs getting told to not give cards early to pander to americans

>>157054434
That would be fine if it wasn’t 0-0 for 120 minutes with the outsider winning in penalty goals Kek

>>157055808
where did i say or imply that people didn't watch the wc?

>>157055791
Yes the refs being dogshit was thanks to infantino telling them to pander to anerican sensibilities instead of actually carding players

>>157055830
You do not understand your own sport

You defend offsides

You defend the atrocity that was this WC and blame Americans who know your sport better than you

>>157055855
>to pander to anerican sensibilities
please stop, retard

New idea, no offsides.

>>157055830
I’m sorry but you can’t actually say you know your own sport but then accept the ref arbitrary time rules. That is unacceptable.

>>157055859
>>157055860
Last time I answer to american retards. Just leave this sport alone, every time you come close you make it worse

>>157055885
lel that was not a response to me at all. you just headcanoned your way to the card thing

>>157055885
>leave this sport alone
Exactly why it’s doomed

You defend var like you defend not having AC. No reason other than muh Americans, then you die of heat stroke like dipshits

>>157055907
which sport hasn't had an instant replay problem for referee and rule enforcement?

Imagine insulting countries that actually played in the tournament. Don't recall seeing Italy there.

>>157055930
Were you in the milk room when it happened?

>>157055945
tired gimmick and an implicit admission of stupidity.

>>157055474
I will defend this simply because i hate Egypt.

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> By this measure soccer is the most random major sport there is. The favorite fails to win 45 per cent of the time. That’s higher than baseball (44.1 per cent), hockey (41.4 per cent), basketball (36.5 per cent), and football (36.4 per cent). Compare that to tennis, where over five sets the favorite loses only about 21 per cent of the time. In other words, play long enough and skill wins out. In an average ninety-minute soccer match, the better team is only slightly more likely to win than the better player is in a single hand of poker. Both are basically coin flips.
> The main thing that drives the randomness is low event count. A basketball game, for example, has around a hundred possessions per team. A tennis match has hundreds of points. But a soccer match can turn on a single shot hitting the crossbar, one bad call, or a ball bouncing off someone’s shin. There's simply not enough scoring for skill to drown out luck.

>>157055961
So you’re saying you cannot confirm if you were in the milk room?

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>>157055982
i recognize your concession, but I don't accept it.

>>157056001
So you narwhal the bacon at midnight?

Americans having an opinion on soccer is dumb when they basically only tune in to the World Cup every 4 years and basically ignore all the ups and downs and curveballs of a club football season.

>>157056001
>>157056027
>bot shitting out 2016 stale memes
I accept your pulled pork

>>157056021
presuming I were a bot, wouldn't you be embarassed that all of your attempts are being side stepped? Or are you just committed at this point because it's all you've got?

>>157053976
From a non-American perspective, the high scoring of American sports devalues each individual score/goal and makes the play feel repetitive. If you binge on sugary food and masturbate five times a day, you get desensitised. That's what American sports is, where matches finish 119-95. On the other hand, the winning goal in a 2-1 or a 3-2 win in football/soccer feels amazing because it counts for a lot and there's often been a lot of tense build-up beforehand. Casuals who only follow a sport every four years obviously can't appreciate the tactics and other subtle elements either. That goes for any sport, of course.

>>157056001
>>157056044
I accept your concession

>>157056055
yes, all of the notable baseball, handegg and hockey games that finish 119-95

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>>157056065
>responding to the same post 3 times
absolutely boilin

>>157056055
The median score last year in the nfl is 22.4 points per game

The median score last year in the mlb 4.4

Where are you getting 100+? Basketball? That’s it?

>>157056001
>>157056101
I accept your concession

>>157053976
nobody cares what obese school shooting sub 90 iq landwhales have to say, actually. go back to raping little kids.

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>>157055474
Magical team really.

>>157056001
I accept your ai slop

>>157056055
>often been a lot of tense build-up beforehand
Not really, most scoring opportunities are frantic and happen quickly. Farting around mid field passing 200 times isn’t build up. Build up is slowly advancing on a real football field, having to convert several third or fourths downs is tense, not gay nothingburger shit

>>157054014
>> But that's why it's so tragic. Soccer takes the largest, most brutally filtered athletic talent pool on earth and wastes it by paying players millions of dollars to jog around in circles for ninety minutes and try to score once with their feet.
As opposed to what, nigga? What are athletic people even good for other than running around for our entertainment?

>>157056221
They just need to smash into each other headfirst a little more

Watched most of the games on replay at 3-5x speed, reverting back to normal whenever something happened or the game was tense in the final moments.
Really don't feel I missed much.

But at least the moments for soccer actually count. With basketball you might as well skip the first 44 minutes (and hopefully be able to fast forward the last 4 (~20) minutes).

>>157053976
>muh win rate
If American sports had ties in regulation instead of overtime in the regular season you'd see a lot more favorite teams fail to win. Even with that if he'd ever followed a title race in a top European league he'd know that not dropping points against shitters is usually what separates the league winner from the other contenders.

>Soccer is all luck
Semifinals of the WC were ranked 1,2,3,4 in the world before the tournament. The winners only conceded once (against a top 10 team chasing a lead) and were never behind at any point in the whole tournament. American postseasons are almost never this deterministic, usually one of the #1 seeds or division/conference winners goes out early even in sports with multi game series to sand out the randomness of any one game.

>Muh games decided by 1 goal
How many games in the non boring American sports (no basketball) are decided by 1 score (or effectively so, like a 2 goal hockey game where the last goal was on an empty net)? Are those more boring games to watch than a 70-3 blowout where the winning team puts out walk-ons halfway through the game? Will anyone seriously tell me that they want the sports they watch to have more games like Germany-Curacao and fewer like England-Mexico?

>Draws are anti-competitive
Anti competitive is arbitrarily forcing a winner in a game where neither team pulled out a win. Give me a tied league game any day over pretending that the team that did better in a shootout or that one the coin toss and made an 90+% field goal is the real winner.

There's real shit to complain about with soccer but every world cup there's a flood of American writers who flop their circumcized dicks out on the table and say the dumbest most ignorant bullshit about the world's favorite game to boost their engagement

>>157056184
Watching a qb pass or throw the ball to one-dimensional Quilltylun isn't exactly exciting, and to borrow the playbook of this thread's author, it's the equivalent of a movie forcing a fight sequence every other scene, it loses any impact. But I'm guessing this is what americans are trained for, constant stimulation (with commercial breaks) or else they'll lose interest. In fact all gridiron football players are one-dimensional.

>passing 200 times isn’t build up
I'm assuming you're talking about Spain's tiki-taka tactic? It's the equivalent of a real-life chess match, Spain slowly dissecting and breaking apart their opponents, mindbreaking them over how they never ever get possession. It's sophistication that you twats will never get.

I don't know what statistics he's using but it's just blatantly false. I've watched hockey and football for almost 30 years and there are way more upsets in hockey than football.

>a small handful of upsets happened in a 100 game tournament (where the 4 highest ranked teams all made the semifinal) and this proves football is too random according to this random percentage I pulled out of my ass

Only 8 teams have won the world cup for a reason. Football has very low variance compared to ice hockey. It's comparable to basketball or American football in the likelihood of the better team to win.

>>157054027
>Nobody cares if you like football or not
I care. This World Cup has shown exactly what would happen to football if Americans started liking it.

The worst part of this world cup, as someone who grew up watching extremely physical, entertaining teams who fouled often and trash talked and all that other fun stuff, was all the retards bitching and whining over soft ass fouls and getting personally offended when players ran their mouths. Where did all these fucking crybabies come from? I felt like I was on reddit.

>>157056055
The high of a winning goal in soccer could never match the highs of a winning score in any of the four North American sports because you will never know the emotions of going directly from losing to winning. Or in the case of hockey, knowing that the overtime goal is the absolute end.

>>157058505
Retard. Comebacks and last second goals happened dozens of times just in the world cup.

>>157058307
>VARgentina gets btfo
categorically because of that fact alone this WC was a wild success

> The main thing that drives the randomness is low event count. A basketball game, for example, has around a hundred possessions per team. A tennis match has hundreds of points.
yeah and thats why you never need to watch anything but the last quarter of every basketball game and it sucks

>>157058628
It's not even true when it comes to football. In hockey it's true that you get low scoring games decided by luck fairly often. But in football, despite the low event count, generally the better teams find a way to win.

>>157053976
> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I NEED TO SEE BBCS SCORING THOUSANDS OF POINTS PER GAME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>157058523
No matter how crazy the comeback, you *have* to tie first. You’ll never be in a position where you can completely vault over that status. Being on the knife's edge between winning and losing is far different than between losing and tying or tying and winning. And as for last second goals, you can never tell for certain what the actual last second is thanks to that fucky timekeeping of theirs.

>>157058720
Baseball and american football and basketball all bore me and I haven't watched them in years so I'll concede that I can't make a fair comparison

>>157053976
soccer being more random than gridiron is surprising to me - gridiron feels like a very chaotic sport where "anything can happen on any given sunday", and yet it's actually more likely to pick the favorite than soccer?
the people who designed gridiron fucking cooked

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>"footie is a random sport where patterns can be randomly broken and there are no set-in-stone fixtures"
Not really? Cabo Verde pulled together to have a good defence against teams that we saw were struggling to score. Argentina's best scoreline was 3 - 0 against Algeria. Every other game even when teams opened up, they struggled.
Spain were the exact same, they struggled with Portugal and in the games were they had 1 player advantage they only got 1 goal.

This was a WC where a majority of teams were playing incredibly defensively. Arsenal won the PL, PSG and Arsenal played a game with 4 total shots on target in the champion's league, Inter Milan won the Italian league.
European football has currently locked into defensive setpiece play which results in playing for fouls and playing for luck. That said, the results this WC were not unusual if you've been paying attention to Africa, European leagues and Copa.

>>157054279
The parity should be legitimate and not through dragging the game until everyone is tired and making mistakes.

>>157054870
>Mutt sports are much more 'luck' based in terms of winners.
Not really. He shows the numbers in the article.

The luck in US sports is the draft system. The games themselves aren't more luck based then soccer.

Why are americans obsessed with football? Just don't watch it nigger

>>157053976
I hope America never gets to host a WC again. Conspiracy theories, celebrity larpers, people watching the game from TikTok reels and openly admitting they never watched a full game but giving their dumb takes anyway, the orange retard breaking tradition and touching the cup, cooling breaks, halftime shows, sorry Burgerbros I hope WCs happen on timezones far away from yours in the future.

There were some kino football moments but all the shit around it ruined the mood.

>>157054250
To be fair the article is from some Australian outlet, they also happen to be rabidly pro-Israel

>>157055737
>Shit happens, at least you could live in the moment.
this line sums up exactly why var is inherently wrong, the fact that a random aussie gets it tells you a lot about the state of euros and sudacas of /sp/

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Americans are right. Like me, most of you only watch a handful of important matches like WC or champions league knockout games. I gave up on watching leagues more than a decade ago. It was just boring to me. 90 minutes of nothing.

>>157060040
Ah plus 15 minutes break time, close to 2 hours of pure slurpfest.

what is it about this sport that causes so many americans to insist it needs to be fixed and they are the ones to do it? only using your feet is one of the best parts if anything headers should be banned to keep the ball on the ground more, but this would also reduce the goal count which is probably unacceptable to some.

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>billions love the sport
>akschtually, you should not, let me tell you why
imagine writing an article like that

>>157060103
>>157060119
They've already improved the game with hydration breaks.
It allows the players to play harder, change up tactics if need be and brings in more money for the game.
Everyone wins thanks to American innovation.

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>>157055737
We did not "get on with life" after this mate

>>157055791
>the rampant growth of the NFL
KEK

>article from an aussie
>foreigners all seething about america
kek

>>157057880
This guy gets it

>>157055791
The English Premier League makes more money outside of England than every US sport combined makes outside of the US.

>>157059634
What parity? There already isn't any. Doesn't matter if it's parking the bus, tiki-taka, whatever gay strategy teams use to stall out the clock and prevent the game from happening like a neckbeard at a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament, it's still the same few countries winning internationally and the same few teams winning domestically forever. It's divorced from reality to complain that soccer is too random and gives underdogs too many chances. It's literally the stalest, most repetitive sport in the world.

>>157054014
This simply isn't true. Rugby Football predated Association football.

>>157055425
Yeah that was weird

>>157055425
Aussies are genuinely the most retarded posters on this board. Everything you guys say is the worst post I've ever read. The graph did show two bumps if you paid attention, they just replayed the one bump several times.

>>157056027
>curveballs
Baseball term

>>157059841
This and the stupid takes. The obsession from Africans and their diaspora in Anglo countries constantly crying about racism bc of subtle cultural differences.

>>157053990
It’s not the fact that he’s American that makes his opinion discardable…

>>157060808
>$2.6B

>The NHL generates an estimated $2 billion to $2.5 billion USD annually directly from Canada
>NBA generates an estimated $500 million in annual revenue from China
>Major League Baseball (MLB) and its individual franchises pull in an estimated $300 million to $400+ million annually from the Japanese market.
Oh no no no?

This is just a long winded way to describe the nature of a poisson distribution for games with low score counts.
If the English national team were serious about winning (sadly not the case) then they would understand that the best way to win is to score more goals, even if you let in more goals. If you average a goal differential of 1 against a team, you could win anywhere between 1-0 and 10-9. If you play offensively, trying to get 10 goals, risking giving up 9, you are more likely to win the game than trying for a 1-0 victory. This is a mathematical fact as shown by the poisson distribution and is true for any sport.
tldr: the shirtless, obese englishman yelling "score some facking goals" has a more sound strategy than Suckgate and Tushits.

>>157060906
>The graph did show two bumps if you paid attention
Have a screenshot?

>>157060990
You know what, bro. Infantino isn't paying me enough for me to go looking for the video to prove it to you.

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>>157053976
death to america btw

It just sucks that a match can go on for 2 hours and end in 0 - 0.

>>157061019
Was hoping you had it saved so I wouldn't have to go look up your (bullshit) claim.

>>157053976
Americans be like
>why just enjoy sport when we can statistically analyse it instead

>>157059841
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>157053976
Under this little faggot's logic Tennis should be the ultimate hero vs hero battle and modern equivalent to champion warfare. If soccer was boring then nobody would watch it

>>157053976
"Soccer" is boring to the common Yank because you have zero connections to the souless teams you have, and barely any to your NT.

>>157061269
You just root for your diasporoid homeland in nationals and then cheer for the club that has the best players from your national team. Worked for me 16 years ago. As luck would have it my european club bought my actual local team.

Luck is a skill, especially maintaining it consistently, and that's why fooccer is the best

>>157058720
I'm old enough to remember a time before they announced the amount of stoppage time at the end of 90 minutes. Those were the good days.
That would drive the average American, non-soccer-enthusiast, sportsball fan insane.

>>157059841
Although it's been pretty one-sided the last couple of decades, the world cup has historically been a contest between European and South American nations. North America is neutral ground, and therefore should be hosts for all World Cups. We will agree not to rig one for ourselves more than once every 50 years. But that is how it should be.

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>>157060906
>>157061019
>Canadians get confused by videos looping

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Imagine holding such a religious adherence to a sport to such a degree that any criticism is met with screeching and chimping.

>By this measure soccer is the most random major sport there is. The favorite fails to win 45 per cent of the time
this is a bad thing?

>>157062351
Yes. It means it's a game of chance rather than skill.

>>157054360
No rebuttal?

>>157053976
>>157053982
many are saying this

>>157062351
They must be measuring games between close ranked teams for this stat because it makes no sense otherwise. In ice hockey the 3 or 4th ranked team gets their shit rocked by the 25th team like every week and that almost never happens in football

>>157053976
Spain were the favourites to win the cup and they did

>>157061804
You're retarded, friend.