re: #158 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Whenever anybody says soccer is boring (Of course it’s boring, it’s sports!), I always tell them that whenever anybody scores a goal, they should increment the score by six, like American football (better called “armpitball”). This creates an illusion that there’s more going on than there really is.

you sum it up nicely. I will go watch the finals today because my grandma was Croatian and I feel ethnically compelled to support them as well as to support a nation of 4 million against one of 67 million.

I have been in Europe for over 30 years and have totally failed to gain any great appreciation for the game of soccer. Even worse is in league play, where teams play for points in a standings table, I have seen games where each team has scored a goal, allowing them to advance, and then just stand on the ball for the rest of the game, not wanting to take any chances of losing.