Soccer is brutal.

Basically, the refs let tonite's game get out of control, resulting in my friend Sean getting his shin broken by the keeper. Sean had the ball, shot, landed on his shooting foot (right), and the keeper went straight through with a late hit, not even going for the ball. If we would have had a decent official, that would have been a redcard (excessive force) and a penalty kick. But, we were stuck with hometown refs who would call the slightest contact on us, but would only call fouls on them when they used large amounts of force.


Just seeing him hold up his leg almost made me vomit; I'm glad I didn't hear it snap. That just broke through any happiness I had, seeing my friend purposefully get injured severely in a game that is supposed to be fun and safe.

That sounds bad, yes, but you can't call football a game that's "supposed ot be fun and safe". Fun yes, safe no. Not much.

Look at the WC matches, watch the South American matches, watch the European Cup, Euro '08, English leagues, Italian Serie, Deutsche Fußball-Liga - they can all get pretty violent.

You won't have heard it over there, but about a week ago a Manchester City [Thatcher] literally went THROUGH a Portsmouth player [Mendes] - he was knocked unconscious. Completely taken out. Thatcher's now been fined £100k and has a loooooooong ban.

Some of the best football matches (ones you rarely see in the Premiership) are the scrappiest - Burnley (team I support) in a derby against Blackburn (biggest rivals) is one of the bloodiest.

And Conference League, County League and Sunday league can get really bad. But that's because very few of the players (Conference excepted) are professionals.

I was nicknamed "Bonecrusher Lendrum" at Primary school, and still am sometimes - I'm a defender, and I really am quite mad, sometimes. It gets the ball, I can intimidate the other players with marking like superglue, and, above all, they stay away from my wing (right). In a primary school match against my [now] best friend's school, I completely went through someone who got past me. Reports say that I ran up behind him and seemed to Rugby tackle him. But I got the ball... Even after the manager had taken me off, the players kept away from the right wing.

All in all - Football can be a very violent sport. What you'll see will be World Class football, ie safe and too professional. What you don't see much of is proper football. In fact, if you watch the 1974 WC match between Hungary and Germany you'll see Hungary going mad with W. Germany after the penalty.

But yeah, I agree, that is an awful foul. Even I wouldn't try that.

The thing that pissed me off was that it was a way late hit. That shouldn't be happening in a small region, especially at the high school level. The other coach encouraged rough play and cheating, too.

Ah, rough play and cheating, always fun.

Say you're marking a player, and his mum is on the sidelines shouting "HIT HIM JIMMY! SOCK HIM ONE!!" because he hasn't touched the ball for 80 minutes, and suddenyl BAM! long pass. What you do is intercept it with a nice volley, and aim it straight at the fat bitch.

It was a shame she ducked.

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There are some players who will go for the late hit and try to pass it off as a hard tackle. It just can't be helped.

Stuff like that is why I quit soccer and continued on with hockey. There's no way to take out your frustration (legally) in soccer. In hockey, lay them out with a big hit or drop the gloves (moreso at the major-junior to pro levels though).

Can you hit them with the stick?

If you hide it well, or time it just exactly, then you can crack them across the knees something awful... or so I'm told. Yeah, someone told me that.

But seriously, hide it well, or time it exactly and you can get away with murder. Or just hit the puck as hard as you can towards them and at an angle of about, what, 30 degrees?

how about a 20 degree angle to the neck? That'd learn them some respect, ya hur.

When grass fairies fight back. pt 1

I bet any "grass fairy" could kick your nerdy, Star-Trek, anime loving ass.

lol. Don't listen to Thanatos -- he's still upset because he can't smoke out.

It's ok. I have my ARX-7 Arbalest Arm Slave ready and set for such an occasion. They will never know what hit them.

lol. Don't listen to Thanatos -- he's still upset because he can't smoke out.

Actually, I'm not that upset about it. I just find it funny that a nerd is talking shit about athletes.

I bet any "grass fairy" could kick your nerdy, Star-Trek, anime loving ass.

"Kicking someones ass" is a very... animal thing to be proud of. Enjoy coddling your lower brain functions, dumbass.

A battle of the wits is more down Grav's street.

Break someone mentally, and you've broken them for life. Then you can kick their nerdy, Star-Trek, anime loving ass.

All in a day's work.

I don't battle anything.

If I have a reason to get at you it will happen and you won't know I was involved.

Grav doesn't deal with the Mafia, Grav IS the Mafia.

Nah I'm just playing anyway. Don't believe anything you read on the internet.

But if you say "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet", and we can't actually believe anything we read on the internet, then why should we believe you telling us not to believe if it is actually wrong to believe what we're told to believe?

6 "Believe"s!!

You know that feeling you get when you type or write a word so much, that it starts looking as if it's not a word? I just got it.

Can I hear an "I believe!!"?

Take my word for it.