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Wow, someones got a nerve exposed.

I fake playing? Wow.. someone really really has a nerve exposed.

Yes players complain in every sport, but my experience has been soccer is the worst, they whine constantly about everything. Are all soccer players whiners? Nope, but they definately have the highest percentage of whiners of any of the sports I play.

I think the big problem here is that American sports fans are positively civil compared to soccer fans around the world, mostly because here in the USA sports fans can cheer for multiple major sports, not just one major dominant spectator sport. As such, fan passion tends to get dissipated, not highly concentrated like you get in Europe, South America, parts of Africa and much of Asia.

Interestingly, the image of the soccer hooligan in England has become increasingly obsolete, thanks to the two tragedies that befell English fans: the Heysel Stadium riot in 1985 and the Sheffield Stadium disaster in Hillsborough, England in 1989. These two acts resulted in much tighter soccer stadium crowd control rules in the UK and the mandatory switch to all-seater configurations for stadiums for better crowd control.