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Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Big Buckin' agate_monkey, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Please, 93, soccer on TV is great. I'm watching Champions League on ESPN2 right now. No commercials, constant action.
     
  2. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    If your talking the Premiership, then yes, it is good on tv. I'm talking high school or college in the good old USA.
     
  3. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    Yes Flash, all for football. And, in my thread, we will call it football, not soccer, from here on out
     
  4. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    One more thing, a 1-nil football match is easier to write than a 50 point blowout in American football
     
  5. Platyrhynchos

    Platyrhynchos Active Member

    He'll miss my house, dammit. ;D
     
  6. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    I'm guessing you played football when you were young. I never did. It's one of the few sports I did not, and when I tried as an adult, I was awful. I mean awful. And I am a certified football ref, and it is still hard to write about a match because I cannot place myself in the cleats of the player.

    That might explain the difficulty writing about the sport.
     
  7. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    The only way he is going to Indiana from Illinois through Kansas is if Otto was driving.
     
  8. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    Never played footie. Im a ref too. Been meaning to get into an adult league, but it sneaks up on me. Still 1-nil is as easy as it comes
     
  9. Flash

    Flash Guest

    Naw ... we'll call it kicky-ball.
     
  10. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    I still say the proper SportsJournalists.com style is "looser fanboy"
     
  11. doubledown68

    doubledown68 Active Member

    It's soccer. It's patently unwatchable. OK, I take that back. I like to listen to Tommy Smyth warble on for exactly three minutes, all while making Lucky Charms jokes to myself. But after three minutes, it goes back to being unwatchable.
     
  12. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Once you feel the tempo of the match and realize it's going to be a low-scoring, tight game, that's when you start paying closer and closer attention and digging into strategies and trends. I think 1-0 and 0-0 games are easy to write, as are the higher-scoring games. Soccer -- rather, football -- is just easy for me, I suppose.
     
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