For those who call football a girls sport...

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To be honest, I don't so much follow high end football for the reasons you have given. The Premiership, La Liga and Serie A leagues are full of overpaid, over-ego'd, over-dramatic, over-dressed pansies.
I follow lower league football, where the guys get paid a respectable wage, but not stupid money, and play the game as it always has been: Leg-snappingly tough.
I do enjoy any kind of football though, despite the histrionics and prancing. Footy is just in my blood.

 

That's true. In the lower leagues you could say the game is more fierce and there's more blood involved because they play the game properly because they aren't really trying to impress anyone. In the case of the higher leagues, players will do anything just to get ahead, but when they make a false move in front of 50k people THEN you have a problem because THAT's when you're not playing the game anymore. Pathetic really.

 

@Barmy

Biting? Did you say biting? Is there hair pulling too? And this R Keane, I've never heard of her. Is she hot?

 

Hey! That's the way girls fight! What a bunch of sissy poofs!

 

Ref biting! Imagine a basketball player suddenly turning around and taking a chunk out of the ref - Tyson stylie .

 

Man, I love FOOTY FIGHTS, best online game ever!

 

Looking at the videos I have yet to see ANYTHING in SOCCER to compare with LT breaking Thiesman's leg (compound fracture by bending Joe IN HALF - sideways - while a 350 pound linebacker was laying on Joe's legs).

Soccer is still not a real man's sport. Show clips from Rugby.

 

'Soccer' is not a real mans sport as apposed to what, baseball perhaps? Or maybe American football where a foul gets called when one guy strokes another guys nipple.

I'll leave it with you our kid...

Americans

 

Hmmm... never seen that one. Although I have seen 300 pound guys hit head-to-head and break their necks. Nothing beats the hit to a receiver during a high, over-the-middle catch. I've seen many receivers removed in a stretcher after those hits (and no penalties called -- I guess the defender stayed away from the nipple).

I'm really not sure what that means.

 

UK, US, U figure it out.

I believe T2 mentioned rugby...

 

I have, and even at the superbowl. American football is the most stoppy-starty game I've ever seen.

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What I said is just a saying. It basically means 'you're on your own on that one mate'.

Rugby is a British sport which coincidently has fewer injuries than football, and far fewer serious injuries.
Play football and have someone two-foot tackle you round the back of your legs with metal studs. Weight and all this other fancy dan stuff is crap. That will hurt more than anything.

You really should try and not to be so narrow-minded, Bruno. I say these things for your own good. I try to educate people.

 

Because the guys who play rugby don't fall over in agony every time someone comes anywhere near them, like they do in soccer.

 

Now for a *real* man's sport, look no further than Aussie rules football. No play diving, no armor... just 1970s style shorts, ridiculous socks, and mullets for everyone and you're good to go.

 

Too bad nobody gives a crap about that one.

 

A few million people in Melbourne might dispute that. Those guys go absolutely nuts over that sport. I've seen women cry who missed out on getting tickets to certain games.

 

"Aussie rule" was the only way I played football as a kid. No one in my neighborhood had pads, just a lot of broken bones and scars.

Good one. I like that.

 

And mullets. A lot of them. You too. Admit it.

Actually, Aussie Rules is very different from US football. It's played on an oval field, with everyone running about madly making forward passes by punching or kicking the ball. At least Rugby rules football is played on a grid.

When I was in Melbourne in Fall 2004 all these fans were running around wearing scarves that were either red and gold or teal and black (brisbane vs part adilaide?). Like Gryffindor was playing Slytherin.

 

The whole point is. Uninformed people (read: Americans) refer to football as a girls sissy sport, to try and ridicule it. But when broken legs, snapped metatarsals, broken noses and crunched nuts happen quite regular, it clearly isn't .

It's the worlds most popular sport for a reason.

 

Thats why everyone should follow the Scottish league. Sure its not perfect, but Scots hardly play act when you compare them to the English, Italians, Portugese and Spanish. Also, SPL is far more interesting now that its not all Old Firm dominated, mainly due to Romanov's influence in making Hearts into a European class team.

 

I don´t understand the obsession of the american for prove his manliness. Ok, the (american) football is entertaining, but a sport with two hippos with shoulders pads struggling between, is not really a "really man sport", maybe a "really fat man sport".
The soccer is not rude, is more based in skill and intelligence, but sometimes is very rude with broken legs and noses.