Football is the man's sport, wanker football (sometimes referred to as futbol) is the "sport" that's basically a relay race using a ball instead of a baton. The principle difference is a team scores when the other team botches the hand off. As long as neither team botches the hand off they will take the ball from one end to the other as fast as they can for 90 minutes, at which point they both get 1 point.
BTW I really am gonna try to catch at least one game of the World Cup this year.
I know the voices in my head arn't real but they usually have some pretty good ideas.
Since the shoutbox is overheating, set GD on fire, eh?
I don't much care what you Americans think of football; it's my favorite athletic game anyway. (& most of the world's....)
We don't have to see eye-to-eye on it, as indeed in many other issues America doesn't see eye-to-eye with the world. You play your football in kevlar, we'll play ours.
I do still live in WA. That does not mean I see eye-to-eye with many Americans, and until America grants me citizenship, I will continue to refer to myself as an European. For not only in customs and habits am I European, but also legally.
A foul, or several fouls. Or some other violation of fair play, but mostly fouls.
And a foul is defined rather broadly, but it's basically a deliberate attempt to down another player.
After a yellow card, if you commit something deserving of another one, you get sent off (red card). There also may be inter-match consequences of it, but I don't remember those.
Players sometimes make obscene gestures at the referee after a yellow card, and that gets them a red card. Only sometimes, of course, but it's rather immature.
Is that any attempt to down the player, regardless of what you use to do it? i.e. if you don't use your hands it's not wrong type of thing?
And on a red card, do you leave for a few minutes like hockey, do you get ejected and someone has to come off the bench to replace you like most sports, or is it something crazy like you leave and nobody can replace you?
I know the voices in my head arn't real but they usually have some pretty good ideas.
The crazy one. The whole team suffers - a player short.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
Nope. Remember, we have 11 players out on the field in football. It is a big disadvantage, but you can overcome it. For example, Poland played a portion of their match against Germany shorthanded, and just barely lost on a goal in stoppage time.
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
