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Originally Posted by puppychow
soccer (excuse me - football) is a terrible, awfully boring sport. the only reason it took of internationally is b/c all you need is a ball and is cheap to play.
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I'm not having this at all. If you watch a good free-flowing game of football end to end nothing on earth can beat it.
For aesthetics check out some goals by Maradona (against England 1986 whoa), Ronaldinho, Zidane (Champions League final at Hampden springs to mind). If you showed me the 'best' play at American Football or Basketball and then I showed you one the great goals in soccer of the past then theres only gonig to be one winner.
Finally the fact that there are less goals/points/scores whatever just means more meaning/value is put on each individual goal. The classic example is Michael Thompson for Arsenal against Liverpool 89 I think when they won the Premiership, at Anfield, in the last minute of the alst game of the season with
1 goal. Unbelievable.