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Football (sorry, Soccer) is not the kind of sport which enables high scores, it never was. Actually, in the past, goals seemed to occur more often, but that was
by miguelpais 16y ago
Football (sorry, Soccer) is not the kind of sport which enables high scores, it never was. Actually, in the past, goals seemed to occur more often, but that was mostly because of the huge discrepancies between the opposing teams.
I think it would be much more easier to embrace what Rugby does, and get a referee analyzing TV footage to help the field referees when doubts arise, than changing the one thing that makes soccer what it is, the act of scoring a goal and what it represents, reducing it to nothing, turning Soccer into one of those sports where in each attack there is a point taken for the attacking team, being the game decided by those few attacks that weren't successful.
- patrickk 16y agoYou only have to look at Real Madrid to see what happens when you think only of attacking. The thought process of their president Florentino Perez (who makes new signing decisions, not the manager) must look like this: 1. Get a €300million loan from a bank. 2. Go out and buy as many attacking, 'flair-players' as possible. (Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema). 3. Sell lots and lots of Real Madrid shirts. Notice that winning trophies does not enter the equation. Indeed, Real Madrid got dumped out of the Champions League by a fairly ordinary Lyon side.
- miguelpais 16y agoI think Mourinho will finally give that club the stability it needs either by bringing new players, not particularly the big stars, but those who are able to play in the context of a team, or he will just take the big stars out of their pedestal and make them work if they really want a place in the team.