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12 Jun 21
@fmf saidTake it to the "Sports Forum", spanky!
It's now the group stage and so a round robin. Draws can be an achievement for an underdog and a significant hole in the road for stronger teams. A tournament is a campaign. In the subsequent knockout stage, every game must end with a winner.
-VR
@divegeester saidWales 1-1 Switzerland
I know this technically belongs in the sports forum but as this is first international football (soccer) tournament since the pandemic hit, and the biggest in the world after the World Cup, thought we could all join in the banter here.
@very-musty saidLater there is Denmark v Finland and then Belgium [ranked no.1] v Russia.
Ok thanks 😉
@divegeester saidThe tournament is being shown for free on terrestrial TV but we don't have a terrestrial TV because we don't watch terrestrial TV. So my son has just bought a subscription to an Indonesian online streaming service for his phone and he can watch all the games of the tournament which is 50 or so games for a princely sum of 25,000 Rupiah which is £1.25
I know this technically belongs in the sports forum but as this is first international football (soccer) tournament since the pandemic hit, and the biggest in the world after the World Cup, thought we could all join in the banter here.
@very-musty saidNot that I can speak for everyone in Europe, but I can't remember anyone ever proposing that draws were eliminated from league football or from round robins in tournaments. That goes for both fans and players.
Why do players and fans allow a tie?
@fmf saidEven if you could should put it in the "Sports Forum" spanky!
Not that I can speak for everyone in Europe, but I can't remember anyone ever proposing that draws were eliminated from league football or from round robins in tournaments. That goes for both fans and players.
-VR
@divegeester saidThe games are being played in cities all over Europe. Are there travel restrictions on supporters?
I know this technically belongs in the sports forum but as this is first international football (soccer) tournament since the pandemic hit, and the biggest in the world after the World Cup, thought we could all join in the banter here.
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12 Jun 21
@fmf saidReally?
Not that I can speak for everyone in Europe, but I can't remember anyone ever proposing that draws were eliminated from league football or from round robins in tournaments. That goes for both fans and players.
North American sports have to have a winner.
Play till someone wins.
Soccer (Your Football) is relatively new over here as far as popularity goes.
@very-musty saidGood question.
@divegeester
Why do players and fans allow a tie?
Is it so hard to have a shootout or those penalty kicks to decide the game?
Football is a very tactical game, even more so than American football, because the scoring is usually so low. So it’s almost like a game of chess in that each move is itself a pice of the victory.
Draws are commonplace, and as FMF said, because of the way a certain group is structured, a draw against a team can be interpreted as a victory depending on the opponent and strength of the other teams in the group.
@very-musty saidIn the UK the appropriate sing-song chant across the terraces to the opposition would be:
@Very-Rusty
Dude...shut up. 😉
”cum an’ ‘av a go if ya think yer ‘ard enuf!”
Commonly interpreted as:
“come and have a go if you think your hard enough”
Or more fully...
“You mob of loudmouths over there making all that bottom noise, if you really think you’ve got large testicles and are quite tough, we would be happy to entertain you on our patch and see what you add up to”.
@divegeester saidTake it to the "Sports Forum", Spanky.
In the UK the appropriate sing-song chant across the terraces to the opposition would be:
”cum an’ ‘av a go if ya think yer ‘ard enuf!”
Commonly interpreted as:
“come and have a go if you think your hard enough”
Or more fully...
“You mob of loudmouths over there making all that bottom noise, if you really think you’ve got large testicles and are quite tough, we would be happy to entertain you on our patch and see what you add up to”.
You should be getting in tournaments helping your clan instead of bantering in here.
Take you Vacation flag down so you can be put in Clan Challenges and grow a pair, your clan needs you now more than ever.
-VR