[C. Edmund Wright]

My soccer as a socialist sport was a tongue in cheek comment on a couple of aspects of soccer (the lack of risk reward in the sport compared to most, the low scores that don’t hurt feelings, and the smarmy holier than thou aspect of the hard core soccer elitist.

I wrote this article almost two years ago, but I re read it last night as research for some ghost writing I am doing. Ironically you post this story today and its fresh on my mind:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/soccer_the_perfect_socialist_s.html

[muawiyah]

My insight into soccer arrived packaged ~ buddy of mine in college grew up in a Shone Kraal in what used to be Southern Rhodesia. The cows would eat grass in the common areas in the morning, then be moved off to shelter for the afternoon and cud chewing time.

The "boys" would then have the fields to themselves, and given that it's always hot in the afternoon anywhere in Africa, no adults were around to bother them.

That's what soccer is ~ something impoverished people with no money can play in their youth. Only needs one ball.

My buddy didn't think soccer had any purpose other than that. On the other hand he loved American basketball and driving cars.

[dfwgator]

What is more socialist, the EPL, where the bottom three teams get relegated, or, the NFL, where revenues are shared equally no matter how bad a team is?