Official Soccer Thread

Whoa, I didn't know you all were into real football. It certainly is the most beautiful game. Not at all like that soccer crap the rest of the world insists on playing with whole teams running around trying to avoid each other and scoring only rarely and, it seems, only by accident. What the hell kinda game has guys in shorts and tee shirts running around for the whole game doing nothing but not scoring? 90 minutes of prancing here and there all for one goal in the whole damn game? And heaven forbid any blood shows up. It's penalized? What the hell is that all about? Pansy asses.There is nothing like having 22 big guys hitting each other with full body at full speed, trying to destroy the guy with the ball or trying to destroy the guys trying to destroy the guy with the ball. Twisting, spinning, churning runs carrying 2 or 3 big heavy brutes on your back foot by foot to the end zone. And the passing! Timing patterns with pinpoint accuracy at 20 to 40 yards for a touchdown. Flubbed up ducks to the wrong guy for a pick-6. Such beauty!Well, it's nice to know there are some real fans for the real game in the international realm.

I take it from all this Fergie fella talk that in the game of succer the word "manager" is some strange disambulation of what would in more enlightened sports properly be called a "head coach". And I take it that this Sir Fergie fella was considered a somewhat successful head manager coach guy.I assume then, given as how this succer game is played, that this Fir Sergie head manager coach guy somehow motivated his teams to "not score" more points more often than other head manage coach guys? I can see where, with all that running around, it might take some considerable coaching skill to keep the scoring to as few accidental goals as possible.I guess then the next head manager coach guy won't be so skilled and his team will score more goals. What a pitty.