Suprised nobody brought up the fact that he bashed the Madagascar team today for scoring 149 goals on themselves in protest. My god... he actually called the sport and the players stupid. He had a good point though because that protest was just stupid. And if you missed the show today, you missed one hell of an interview with Fienstien about his new book, check out the Rudy Tomjanovich thread in Other Sports for details.
Now if it was a baseball team doing a similar protest by issuing intentional walks, the game would never end. At least the soccer match ended when time ran out.
this is a ************ing travesty! we cant have this kind of ************, i demand that every one of you write, email, call in and complain to him that he doesnt love soccer that ************ing arrgoant *********************! show him whose ************ing boss. we, as soccer fans, shouldnt have to stand up to that kind of ************!
Madagascaran soccer officials promised ‘serious repercussions’ in response. What exactly is ‘severe’ in the soccer world? What, are they going to give everybody hair cuts? Make them start using their last names? Maybe they could threaten to make them play more soccer. That's just funny.
They're not big on subtlety around here. For best results, try hitting someone on the head with a brick or a plaster of Paris sculpture of Scott Van Pelt.
Jims smack that he runs about soccer is ALWAYS funny, and it's true. And for the guy that talked about intentional walks - Americans would never do something gay like throw a game. Wins and losses are the most important thing here, not how our mullets look.
This is at least the second time you've made this ridiculous claim on bigsoccer. It's happened, and you'd be better off if you quit lying to yourself about it.
Why can't a baseball team keep issuing intentional walks until it rains (assuming they are at the start of the game) and then everything gets washed away? So strategically it would be a smart move if they start off behind and heavy rain is expected in the next few hours. At least soccer is timed.
I challenge you to name a time when an American intentionally threw a game that you have proof of. The only unethical sportsmanship I have seen involves point shaving, not attempting to lose a game. And FYI there is no proof that the Black Socks actually threw a game.
On Dec. 5, 1997, former Arizona State basketball players Steven Smith and Isaac Burton, Jr. pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit sports bribery in a point shaving plan. Smith and Burton admitted taking payoffs for shaving points in four Arizona State home games in the 1993-94 season. Basketball Scandals Tulane abandonded basketball after their scandal though no one was convicted.
Somewhere Eddie Cicotte is still out there looking for The Real Game Fixers. On the back nine with O.J. They threw at least two or three of them straightaway (the series was best-of-nine then). There are those who think that after they realized they weren't going to get their money, they tried to recover and lost the last couple of games strictly on merit. Eight Men Out is a great read as well as a fine film. Get thee to the library or to Blockbuster.