It’s not a bad game. Has potential. Needs to tweak a few rules to get a little more scoring. Deciding a World Cup Final in a shootout makes it a bullshit sport. Period. End of argument.
So as not to just complain without suggesting how to fix it, here goes my tweaks if I was FIFA king:
1) Make the goal slightly larger, like one meter wider and half a meter taller.
2) Relax the offsides rule, or perhaps do away with it altogether.
3) Tighten the rule on when the goalie can use his hands. Perhaps only in the goal crease (immediate goal box). Or only on saves, not on crosses.
4) Put in some stall ball prevention rules. Like when your team crosses the midline, you can’t go back over (like the halfcourt rule in basketball.
5) Disallow passes back to your own goalie.
6) And for Heaven’s sake, penalize any player who flops. Any player on the ground for more than 5 seconds MUST come out of the game for the rest of the half.
Real football only five weeks away — NFL training camps open at the end of July.
I find soccer extremely boring and not unlike watching grass grow.
That said, the “media” seems to be pushing this world cup crap down our throat to force us to join the one world community.
It’s despicable...and it’s not American!