Posted on 07/03/2018 5:43:32 PM PDT by DoodleBob
When I was coming of age, soccer was pushed on us, and so was the metric system — and for the same reason: The rest of the world did it; America was stubborn and behind, in its rejection of those things. America held on to this screwy imperial — imperialist! — system: feet and yards, pints and gallons. The rest of the world had this elegant and logical and non-imperialist — non-British! — system. America had its brutish sports: football, in particular. We needed to embrace the real football, soccer, played by thin, small, virtuous Third Worlders, who had no equipment save a ball, and maybe a few sticks for goals. Nets, too, if they were really lucky.
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It does seem like that. My guess is that many shots are not really possible to hit correctly, so the strike is made and it misses. Means the player did not really have a shot, they should be at least good enough to hit the keeper and keep the ball in play in front of the goal.
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