You really are emotional arent you? The rise of interest in Soccer Coincides with the Rise Of Political Correctness,and The Feminization Of America. Baseball Is American Soccer is NOT Period. The era of we are Not going to Keep score the poor little darlings Might Get Upset and Everyone Must Play the same amount of time and all that Gobblede gook.Anyone at the young age can run around in a Mob and Kick the Ball,all the same,in Baseball even at a Young age you have to be able to Hit a Thrown ball,field it and throw it,now that leads to a Whole lot of frustration for the Harried soccer mom when little Darling Makes an error,Strikes out or Drops the Ball let alone the unmitigated terror of losing the Game. Baseball is American Get Over it
Baseball and cricket and other folk games of that ilk all derive from BRITISH pastimes that usually formed the main attraction when villages or isolated communities would come together, interact, eat, drink and be merry. Winning the game was just the icing on the cake of a genial social outing.
I think I’ve got a solution: you claim modern pro baseball as an American invention.
Us Brits will hang onto all the modest, plain, slow, traditional, self-regulating, amicable, HONEST amateur sports that modern pro baseball evolved from.
You know what’s really sucked the machismo out of soccer? Paying someone a million quid to prance around in shorts, distract them off the pitch with celebrity endorsements and the like, treating them with kid gloves and pandering to their every little diva whim, and tightening up the contact rules to ensure that those poor little darlings don’t hurt themselves because we don’t want them put out of commission by nasty tackles.
The worst ones for this are the Italians and Spanish soccer players.
Because of that, every little wannabe in school who wants to be a professional, acts like a ruddy diva, and little diva’s parents complain that their darling needs protecting from risk. Boom, there’s your stupid risk assessments and stupid cotton-wool wrapping, right there.
You want to know what real soccer should be played like, I have two words for you. Vinnie Jones.