Your football is bullocks

[Genesis]

There! In your face!!!!

It's corrupted and full of amateur dramatics that are not fooling anyone.
This is not about a certain country somewhere or any specific league in
europe or any other possible undiscovered continents (I strongly believe
that the north pole should be a continent - at least in the winter when there
are ice capes! *smacks table*)

Having said that, football is still a good sport and very popular and all that
jazz, but I think that it's been drilled into and brought down by tycoons and
poor, yet increasingly amateur, styles and tricks in the game.

My good friend Alain and I are going to tampon you, you football lovers!!!!
Yes, we are chubby people... we are lazy... but we are training, and we
have the passion and will tampon the hell out of you. We'll be like...wingers
or fly halfs.... (can't be locks because we're not over 190cms).. but we'll
be invincible runners... and..... like.... furious tacklers........ there!!!!
feed on this!!!!!


That's your stupid football being held by the caveman Sebastien Chabal!



Go get them Sea Bass!

[rob]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
did u rip that pictures from one of those gayyish french rugbymen calendars?

[A-Cube]

I've developed a love to this sport a few years ago...and the sight of Chabal tamponning all those commonwealth rugby-men in the world cup made me even more hardcore about this sport...this sport hasnt been tainted yet by the marketing & money ideology that has unfortunately took over football in the last few years...the only place where you can watch football and enjoy it for the sake of enjoying it is Brazil...no millions of dollars wages or astronomic bills for clubs...just guys who play football for the sake of playing it...back to rugby...I think those guys do the dirtiest job on earth...this is a sport contact & yet you rarely see the actors bitching about their injuries...whereas you see the global superstars in football spending their time in hospitals getting paid doing nothing...I LOVE RUGBY...the only sport where the rule "no blood no foul" doesnt count...no matter how much you bleed if you still have the ball in your hands you STILL PLAY!!!...

Now its your turn people to state your mind about Gen's and I obsession...

[Fawzi]

Sorry, but this talk is just CRAP
For one, Rugby doesnt have that artistic measure that football has
& why should you encourage violent play? Sure, some players do act & make a big fuss about it, but why is violence something good? "No blood no foul"?! Football has much, much more than just Big guys playing in it, & thats what makes it beautiful, the best players dont have to be big guys, whereas in rugby if you cant run with a baby elephant on your back, then you'd better stay at home.
Football is the world's most popular sport, without ANY doubt, It's much more than just a sport, while Rugby isnt & has never been, it's still just a hobby

[Genesis]

^ No.

Rugby has been around since the 1860's, so it's far from being a hobby.
It's an established sport with an international board and regular
tournaments from Rugby World Cup (every 4 years), Rugby World League
(that football doesn't have by the way) Tri-Nations and Six Nations Cups
(both annually), needless to mention U-19 and U-21 Rugby World Cup held
every 4 years, and Rugby Sevens and even bloody Women's Rugby World
Cup.

A game with such a magnitude of popularity is not a hobby. Playstation 3
is a hobby, Rugby is a sport.

'No Blood No Foul' is an over-statement. What's meant from it is that you
can play if you bled. In football, you can't be on the pitch with blood on
your shirt.
Rugby is a very elite game that doesn't promote violence - you're not
allowed to tackle a player with no ball, tackle the face or the crouch.
Tackling is done by holding a player down and bringing him to the ground
for a maul or a scrum later on. You don't 'beat' players up. It's not all big
guys - I'm fecking 75kgs and I play rugby.
You have to be fit - that's the only rule that applies to rugby but then again
it applies to every sport. It's a sport for everybody, there's no criterion
that you should have to play rugby. Rugby is never a violent sport, it's
physical, but not violent - there's a good chunky different there.

Yes, it's not popular yet. We're not saying it's more popular than football.
It's not a popularity contest, we're just talking about the enjoyment of
the game. And do you really want to go into the artistry zone of the game?
Have you not seen any rugby matches? Football players can't even run as
fast as rugby players needless to mention art of play.

[Fawzi]

^I watched some rugby,but c'mon, Rugby doesnt have that diversity in play that football has
In football you have goals that come from volleys, headers, tap ins, overhead kick, long shot, total flukes, etc etc...
I didnt mean "hobby" as this, but what Im saying is Rugby doesnt take an important role in people's lives as football does... Some people in Argentina have a church for Maradona!

Football's prominence is what has caused these negative effects it has today. You know why Football players arent allowed to play with blood? Because more & more people started sueing because of injury...
I think that, wether people involved in Rugby like it or not, when (not IF, WHEN) Rugby becomes as prominent as football now, you will notice negative changes taking hold of the game...

[TranceFusion]

Whatever becomes very popular, gets filled with corruption because of idiots. Look at the Italian league... despite its big clubs with big players and great histories... The Polish league is also VERY corrupted, even more than Italian. Last season 4 clubs were punished, relegated. A couple of weeks ago new evidence of more than 150 bought games was published by the press. Some serious punishments are on the way for some clubs.

HOWEVER, this doesn't change the fact that football is the most artistic, the most beautiful and the most passionate sport in the history of this planet. Look at the tricks that players like Ronaldinho, Kaka', Maradona, Zidane, Benzema (although 19 years old only) and many others are able to do. Incredible things your legs can do if you're born with a talent in them! If not, you can learn... i was able to do a few! I can't think of any other sport where you can see such art. Even with your hands it's impossible... (basket). In football you can use every part of your body except your arms and hands. Goals scored are sometimes so magnificent your jaw hits the floor! I can look for some videos at youtube... i don't see such things anywhere else. Amazing headers, powerful shots from long distances (freakin missiles sometimes! Roberto Carlos ), lobs from 50 meters (Rivaldo with Barca, Beckham with ManYoo). Beautiful curves (Juninho at free kicks ), tricky shots (Henry, Shevchenko), individual display of skills (Maradona in 1986, Messi last season dribbling 7 players). Sometimes you see goals you can't understand how they are scored! I go on and on and on... Okay i know Ronaldinho has been partying too much which isn't good for a professional footballer, but the things he can do on the field is breathtaking! Same goes for the one and only ZIZOU.

Football is not bullocks. It's what the "football mafia" is doing to this sport. In the end... humans will shove their nose wherever they can make loads of cash right?! I dunno about Italy, but the head of the mafia in Poland was arrested a couple of years ago. Referees are offered cash for inventing fouls or are blind like freakin idiots... i'm seeing now highlights of Champions League (Barca 3-1 Stuttgart... 1st goal of Barca is scored with the arm and the ref didn't see anything). Also there are many goals in history that should be canceled... but football is still better than any other sport. It's been a long while i haven't played, but i still LOVE touching the ball!

I see sometimes rugby... i get bored to death in 2 seconds. And i hate seeing a bunch of gorillas running into each other and making a pile of human flesh just to get the ball. That's, from my perception, a violent sport. Football is contact. I can't understand why in rugby there's no foul when a rival runs into the ball holder. There's foul when you stop the ball holder in a dangerous manner that threatens his health. In football there can be a shoulder push, but not a dangerous tackle or an obstruction.

As for the passion... Matt Busby (legendary coach of Manchester United after the WW2) has a statue for him at Old Trafford. Ronaldinho had a 7m statue in Brazil. Football is almost literally a religion in Brazil and Argentina. And yes i agree with Alain, Brazil is the best place to watch enjoyable football. Argentina... maybe... but gangs are controlling clubs. People working for the gangs visit the clubs every some period and ask for cash. Players receive salaries lower than stated in their contracts because of this. Even Boca Juniors is controlled by a gang


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