Stadiums should be too expensive, just take your standard roller derby setup, give it hockey glass, reinforce it a little for the motorcycles, and add an air-cannon.
Nothing socialist about soccer, it's just a game where defense rules and nobody has come around to making a huge leap in offensive concept that will break the stranglehold. The frequency of ties is really a World Cup thing and it's all because of how they setup the tie breakers for the round-robin, it punishes teams more for giving up goals than it rewards them for getting goals and losing. This causes World Cup teams to focus on not letting the other team score, a 0-0 tie is better for you in the round robin than a 1-1 tie, that's bad for the sport. It would be better if the changed the tie breakers to the point where 0-0 ties and 1-1 ties are equal, or better still make 1-1 ties better than 0-0 ties, that would make people want to actually score goals and be less concerned about their own end. Outside of the World Cup things are a bit more open, not a lot because defense still rules the game, but a bit.
OK, just seems that way to me.
Baseball and basketball don't allow games to end in ties.(with the exception of the 2003 all star game-- a travesty).
Playoff NFL games do not end in ties.
A tie means nobody won. no team was better than the other in that game based on the score.
The popularity of a sport is a matter of what the spectator wants to watch. Most in this country prefer something other than soccer.
Try the cannolis.