The world's most popular sport? Puh-leeze. This is like saying that dirt is more popular than gold simply because there is more of it. Last time I checked, soccer was very popular where starvation, archery, and badminton were the alternative activities. Where soccer has to compete with the NFL, college football, and basketball -- not to mention WWE, the X Games, cheerleading contests, and cage-fighting -- not so much.

At its heart, soccer is the perfect socialist sport. That's why it will never catch on among Americans the way football or basketball has -- regardless of how hard ESPN or ESPN Deportes tries to force feed it to us. Soccer is a redistributive dreamer's delight

A liberal's only complaint with soccer is that it entails such low scoring that there's no point trying to have a youth league where no one keeps score. It's 0-0. We all know that already. You can't even pretend not to know the score. Then again, 0-0 is the perfect score for a "no score" league, I guess.

Soccer is biggest where the "national teams" are the main sports focus of a nation. Hey, you can't get much more socialist than that. And everyone on every street and in every town pulls for the same team. Wow. Isn't that exciting? Whom do you pull for? Oh yeah, the national team.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

And let's not forget the off-sides rule. Without getting buried in minutiae, suffice it to say that off-sides in soccer is like making the bomb illegal in football or the fast break illegal in basketball. This is a socialist sport. We can't be having any risk-reward equations here. You see, in soccer, it's not fair that you might take a chance to weaken your defense in order to spring a man deep downfield behind the defense. That would be unfair in a free-market, venture-capital-type way. No, no, no! You must let the defense be behind you. You cannot beat them downfield until you have the ball. That would be unfair and, no doubt, mean-spirited.

I actually want this man killed.

This leads to the another socialist issue, which is the low scoring and the self-esteem protection involved in that. In international soccer, 2-0 is a rout and 3-0 an absolute blowout. And yet, it seems so close. Hey, we only lost by three.

In reality, it's like losing by 21 in football -- or worse, actually, given the paucity of scoring. It's a total destruction, but it sounds so innocent at three-nil.

Offensively thick.

Die.

Moal you just made me feel rage... rage I only suffer from when FIFA takes a turn for the worse...

Wow... I'd love to wreck the people who said that.

swer down m8 i'll fkn smash u in2 bits m8.

Link?

Gil wrote:Link?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/soccer_the_perfect_socialist_s.html

I WANT BLOOD

These people understand neither socialism nor football.

Journalists in this country

Honestly Im a pretty sh*t poster here when it comes to having a clue what I'm even talking about but even I could pump out a better article than this typing on graphing calculator whilst sitting on the toilet with a bad hang-over in less than five minutes

the thing is I don't doubt that you could.

Soccer/Football is growing in popularity here. He has no idea what he is talking about

VendettaRed07 wrote: Journalists in this country

Honestly Im a pretty sh*t poster here when it comes to having a clue what I'm even talking about but even I could pump out a better article than this typing on graphing calculator whilst sitting on the toilet with a bad hang-over in less than five minutes

Being quite harsh on yourself there mate, when you post i enjoy reading what you have to say and usually agree with it.

I can't say that about everyone, not trying to kiss ass or anything just from what i have seen you are a good poster.

So with that said yes you could shit out something better than this idiot

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

VendettaRed07 wrote: Journalists in this country

Honestly Im a pretty sh*t poster here when it comes to having a clue what I'm even talking about but even I could pump out a better article than this typing on graphing calculator whilst sitting on the toilet with a bad hang-over in less than five minutes

Being quite harsh on yourself there mate, when you post i enjoy reading what you have to say and usually agree with it.

I can't say that about everyone, not trying to kiss ass or anything just from what i have seen you are a good poster.

So with that said yes you could shit out something better than this idiot

lol, thanks bro You're too kind.

I'm actually going to school to get into journalism (though i don't post like it at all haha) and its kind of funny often I actually see articles as ridiculous like this. I'd like to live in a world where articles like this where only found in deep dark parts of the internet where only some random lunatic posts stuff like this, but its actually more common then I'd ever hope it actually was. I get made fun of some times by other writers at the school paper and they are like "lol writing another article about soccer? Im bored already and I haven't even read it"

And yet they are writing stuff about golf and nascar lol. Though Ill do my best to fix murica so others don't have to pray for us anymore though

I thought it was funny

Hmm I must have been in a coma. Why else I missed the fact that England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Putin, Korea (south), Japan, Sheikhs, Mexico have turned socialists.

Also, posters of Marx, Lenin, Mao, Uncle Ho, Che, Fidel now to be replaced by Beckham, CRon et al.

And it really gets bad every four months -- or is it four years -- when the World Cup rolls around. That's where the arrogance of soccer folks meets up with the one-world feeling and the can't-we-all-just-get-along crowd and all sorts of international bodies that want to treat the U.S. like just another country like Cuba or Iran. It's nauseating.

Dat arrogance.

9.5/10 well played.

I lol'ed hard.

Thanks Mole.

Pray for Murica? Hm. I might be tempted to abandon my agnostic stance for a moment: Good Lord, let brains rain down upon the Earth!

Yeah that site is ultra-conservative so this doesn't surprise me. It was thoroughly amusing though

I ain't even mad

And it really gets bad every four months -- or is it four years -- when the World Cup rolls around. That's where the arrogance of soccer folks meets up with the one-world feeling and the can't-we-all-just-get-along crowd and all sorts of international bodies that want to treat the U.S. like just another country like Cuba or Iran. It's nauseating.

i'm gonna have to invoke poe's law here... surely...

No commercials, timezone and no Amercan superstar is why Soccer is not popular in the U.S

AltoZ wrote:No commercials, timezone and no Amercan superstar is why Soccer is not popular in the U.S

Bingo!


Although, it is growing in popularity slightly but it's not our domestic league(s). Some of us (a little handful of people) support MLS, but Americans want to see the best the sport has to offer IF they are interested, and it's just not convenient.

I have to make a concerted effort to watch Arsenal matches at 8:00 AM in the morning on Saturdays after partying and being out late the previous night. You cant have a broad following here, if that's what it takes

I've read anti-football media and I've read anti-socialist media, but to combine them without an understanding of either topic takes considerable stupidity.

Reading the quotes,made me think of this guy.