From: Futbolmetrix on
On Jun 16, 4:27 pm, Manx Gunner <goal(a)4thegunners!com> wrote:
>
> Come on, Will, don't feed such bullshit claims.  British commentators
> moan about 0-0, too, and a 5-4 game is always referred to as dramatic
> and entertaining, 'what we came to see', etc, etc.  This notion that
> only Americans are bored by nil-nils is utter rubbish.

Agreed. The overwhelming majority of 0-0 games are snoozefests. This
first round of matches has been absolutely catastrophic, much much
worse than Italia '90.

D
From: Alkamista on
On Jun 16, 12:00 pm, Futbolmetrix <futbolmet...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 16, 4:27 pm, Manx Gunner <goal(a)4thegunners!com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Come on, Will, don't feed such bullshit claims.  British commentators
> > moan about 0-0, too, and a 5-4 game is always referred to as dramatic
> > and entertaining, 'what we came to see', etc, etc.  This notion that
> > only Americans are bored by nil-nils is utter rubbish.
>
> Agreed. The overwhelming majority of 0-0 games are snoozefests. This
> first round of matches  has been absolutely catastrophic, much much
> worse than Italia '90.

Worst WC in living memory, so far.
From: Insane Ranter on
On Jun 16, 9:21 am, Google Beta User <wanyik...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Chile actually NOT sittting on 1-0 lead?
>
> I'm not in the "boring" camp.  0-0, 1-1 or 1-0 is not automatically
> boring, I'd expect that from American "goals should be 3 times larger
> types, but not from RSS.

The way the shooting looks in this WC so far. They'd need to be as
wide as the 18 and 5 stories high
From: Starcade on
On Jun 16, 9:00 am, Futbolmetrix <futbolmet...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 16, 4:27 pm, Manx Gunner <goal(a)4thegunners!com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Come on, Will, don't feed such bullshit claims.  British commentators
> > moan about 0-0, too, and a 5-4 game is always referred to as dramatic
> > and entertaining, 'what we came to see', etc, etc.  This notion that
> > only Americans are bored by nil-nils is utter rubbish.
>
> Agreed. The overwhelming majority of 0-0 games are snoozefests. This
> first round of matches  has been absolutely catastrophic, much much
> worse than Italia '90.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.

I mean, this is the goddamned WORLD CUP -- PLAY LIKE IT!!

Mike