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World Cup teams explained to an average American - LOL
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: Javier on July 05, 2010, 11:52:57 AM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on July 05, 2010, 09:25:42 AM ---So I think there have been more blown calls than goals scored.
What a sport. ::)
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Has there ever been an NBA playoff game where it ends and people have said, "those were some great refs tonight" lol.
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Those are just angry fans that their team lost & maybe one call that could of gone either way was called against them.
I'm like that with the NFL, but in the end, those "bad calls" are just calls against my team that puts them in jeapardy of winning.
Seems like everyday I turn on SportsCenter, they expose the World Cup officiating for fucking something up real good. Probably because the players roll over & act like they got sniped in the head everytime they brush up against somebody lol; I guess you can't blame the refs too much, it's just good acting Soccer play.
Javier:
The acting in soccer isn't anymore than the acting in basketball. It's like Kobe's move where he goes for a jump shot gets the ball taken away from and his does a ballerina move and screams AHHHHHH
Chamillitary Click:
http://www.youtube.com/v/vhlRqVaD4BUhttp://www.youtube.com/v/FAATMG91KUU&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/v/v6yLDq0iK4U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/v/uoc8Ei9xk8g
LOL, hardly comparable. Sure the NBA has some floppers, but at least there is contact & the refs also have the common sense to realize half the time it is a flop & don't give them the call. Soccer players don't even get pushed & fall to the ground, NBA players get pushed & they just ridiculously overexaggerate how hard the push was.
Plus it happens way more in Soccer than it does in Basketball.
Javier:
Unless someone literally proves the rate of dives per sport in a match, we really can't say who does it more based off some youtube videos.
7even:
The main reason why the World Cup has so many bad calls is because they do the politically correct thing to get refs from everywhere. Every country can only have 1 ref. Meaning they don't get the best refs, but the most diverse refs. Which also means that the refs come from very different cultures and therefore tend to blow the whistle very differently, also a ref from Uzbekistan is not used to ref a ridiculously important game with the whole world watching and 60000 people in the stadium blowing vuvuzelas.
As for the acting, it is horrible in the NBA and in the World Cup, too. The only way to stop this is is by banning people for acting after analyzing video material. But they really don't wanna do this, as they want to leave the entire responsibility to the refs in charge. Villa was proven to do a red card hit on some Honduras player, but the FIFA didn't wanna do shit because the ref didn't do shit. They need to change that attitude, or it will always stay this way. Because it is a moral hazard - if people don't get penalyzed for inadequate behavior.
But how many times was a player injured for weeks, months or even his whole career after an NBA foul? It happens on a regular basis in soccer.
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