The beautiful game

[nutcracker]

Originally Posted by Gabe215

Neil are you bashing soccer or saying how tough soccer players are? Soccer players play with broken arms and with stitches in their head.

Only slightly Gabe. I played rugger as a kid, and later field hockey when the rugby injuries become too much for my long suffering mother. Oddly enough the only sporting fatality at my high school in a 30 year period was a hockey ball to the head.

We didn't have a lot of time for soccer ("footy"). We thought they were whimps.

There's no doubt a good soccer player is incredibly fit and skillful. Seriously tough games like rugger don't have the divers though. When a rugger player lies on the field it's usually stretcher time!

[markem]

Originally Posted by nutcracker

Oddly enough the only sporting fatality at my high school in a 30 year period was a hockey ball to the head.

I'm not sure that I could withstand being held back a grade that long.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by pnoon

Let the haters hate. Soccer is the most popular sport in the third world.

Fixed it for you.

Don't hate me, Peter, pour a vodka martini and take it all in good fun.