I will watch Soccer when the clock counts down not up, and no added time at the end.
I have watched one game, was thinking “thank goodness, it’s finally over” when they added extra minutes to the game and I was forced, yes FORCED to watch more mind numbing scrambling about.
Oh, and what is with the “tactical”. I see hordes of players running about. I know what the word tactical means and don’t see anything tactical happening.
Wow, watched ONE game and got all that? Thank you for the reply. It’s not many people that will publicly out themselves as an f*ing moron. Well done, and I’ll be sure to note this for all your future posts.
Soccer has bad games and good games, great games, like any sport.
And its not the sports fault if you couldn’t see the tactics. Tactics permeate the game: how the team lines up, how its shape and tactics in attack and defence attempts to defeat and combat the other team’s and viceversa, individual players positions and what they do on the field in both attack and defence, how the coach/manager will change team, players and tactics during the game.
So many tactics in a game of soccer, perhaps that shows that they are subtle and that soccer isn’t a mindless game of kickabout.
That's how it was in the first two years of the American MLS seasons. No ties either. If the game ended in a tie, they went to penalty kicks.
They eventually replaced the shoot-out with two 5-minute halves for sudden death.
Then they just adopted standard international rules.
-PJ