A soccer net is 24 feet wide and eight feet high. How can world-class players consistently miss it??!! Just watching the European Cup and guys who get paid a ga-zillion $$$ can't hit the net. It's about the width of three garage doors and yet, they can't seem to put the ball in. I guess it's more difficult to hit the target with one's foot, in spite of the fact these professionals have been trying to do it for years.
I mean, it's not like sinking a putt into a two-inch cup. Now, that takes skill. It's not like hitting a home run, where you have to accurately connect bat to ball. And it's not like kissing a two-inch line on a tennis court. No. All you have to do it kick a ball into a HUGE net. How hard can it be?!
Boringly, the score is always nil-nil, or one-nil at the most. Add to that the lacklustre commentary and you have mind-numbing stuff. It's always... "Jones... Smith.... Varga....Brown." Nothing but names.
And it's the only sport where the goal keeper wears a completely different uniform than the rest of his team. Why is that?
I guess I just don't get "the beautiful game". To me it's a stupid and tedious game.
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The thing about golf, baseball, and tennis is you don't have an opponent challenging your every move and you're not sprinting all out down a field. I think some things you're best not to blog about... soccer takes an extreme amount of skill.
ReplyDeleteI could not agree more. Susanne said it as it is. You being such a great athlete yourself should just study how they never ever use their hands. Their arms once in a game to throw the ball and that's all. It is very very skillful
ReplyDeleteand exacting. I bet with a friend Italy would win and of course they did.
Then I went to the Queens Plate and my cousin said we are late are you going to bet??? I said some horse has Irish in it's name - I'm off to bet!! Are you completely nuts?? said she - NO !! I'm simply Irish. Put $40.00 on win place or show - Irish came in second and I got $800.00. How's that for the luck of the Irish. You can publish this one- it very positive.