miketrees wrote on May 24
th, 2018 at 3:04pm:
They insist on calling the game football , while most Aussies still call it Soccer.
We have the Socceroos, not the Footeroos.
If they want to fit in with Australians, they should have kept the Australian name.
Yes I call it Soccer as did my father whose parents came from Scotland... it was called actually Soccer Football, soccer being the shortened version.
The original name for the game was Association Football.
My guess is FOOTBALL as in FIFA etc and as now adopted by SBS etc, is because of global recognition. Oh and of course due to the recognisable fact that you are not allowed to touch the ball with your hands.
Quote:As a sport it is not as egalitarian as Cricket or AFL
Bruce Reid and Greg Shipperd can both play in the same side and both bring skills.
Similarly AFL has Sandilands and Ballantyne in the same team.
Not sure your point there. There are specialist positions in Soccer... Fullback (Sweeper), Forward (Striker), Goalkeeper. Both male and females play Soccer, and there are long, short and indoor versions of the game.
Quote:Soccer is low scoring, punctuated with long spells of boring play.
Unlike other forms of Football... in Soccer you only get 1 point for a goal. In the recent Uefa Cup, if it was Rugby the score would have been 18-6...
Quote:Low scoring, makes Soccer easier to corrupt by gambling.
It only takes one dodgy play to result in a goal and that can be the decider.
So only one referee or player needs to be corrupted.
Ah no... no more vulnerable to gambling than Boxing, Rugby or Horse Racing, for example. Where you can bet on things like first team to score, first player to score etc, etc, etc...
Quote:Soccer has long spells of boring play.
In your opinion... running up and down a basketball court bores me.. as does a 5 day test match in cricket that ends in a draw... and lets not forget those close Rugby games that end with 4-0 or 6-nil.... how can they be less boring?
Quote:While no doubt Soccer players are skilled, the range of skills are quite narrow.
Not as narrow as other players in other forms of Football.
Quote:Yep, poor Referring does that. Happens in every sport.
Quote:Once again because of the low scoring nature of the game one cheating instance will determine the match.
Same in all sports...
Quote:This is very unfair and against Australian values.
Cheating and poor Refereeing ruins all sports for all people not just Australians. Drugs, ball tampering, betting, simulation (dives), travelling, hitting below the belt, etc, etc, etc... especially bad in professional sport where IMO if you cheat you are not a professional.
Quote:soccer in Australia most likely lost a lot of supporters after the Italians cheated Australia out of the world cup
Nah... just made real Australians more against the Italians from then on.
Quote:I only got to 7 reasons,,, still working
Good luck with that.
The worse things in Soccer today are... FIFA, rule changing and poor Refereeing where the rules are not strictly adhered to.