From: Jefferson N. Glapski on
On 10-06-21 06:48 PM, Antonio Veranos wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT), deemsbill(a)aol.com wrote...
>
>> To be fair, soccer games could last FOREVER if they played until
>> someone scored.
>
> ...particularly considering that after 90 minutes, the average player on
> the pitch has run over 10 kilometres.

Wow. 4 miles per hour. That's a very brisk WALK.
From: Jefferson N. Glapski on
On 10-06-21 06:48 PM, Antonio Veranos wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT), deemsbill(a)aol.com wrote...
>
>> To be fair, soccer games could last FOREVER if they played until
>> someone scored.
>
> ...particularly considering that after 90 minutes, the average player on
> the pitch has run over 10 kilometres.

Wow. 4 miles per hour. That's a very brisk WALK.
From: Joe Horowitz on

"The Ghost Of Edward M. Kennedy" <ei(a)o.com> wrote in message
news:hvntit$m2a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> If the US draws 0-0 and England draws 2-2, the advancing team
> will be the winner of a RANDOM draw.
>
> The athleticism involved in a random draw is simply AM-ZING!
> The good news is that the odds of England scoring twice is
> near absolute zero.

You know, every single time there's ever a major football tournament, be it
the World Cup or the European Cup or whatever, someone comes along after the
first two rounds of matches to point out that it might, given a certain set
of results, come down to a flip of a coin. This is usually followed by
anguished cries of 'WAKE UP FIFA!!!1!one!1anomaly!1" and the suchlike.

Invariably, it never happens.

The fact will always remain that whatever system you have for determining
the winner, there will always be the possibility that two teams will fare
exactly the same. That it never happens, even in the three-game system,
shows how unlikely.

In this case, as you said, England would have to both score _and_ concede
more goals than in their previous two matches combined. Near, as you
rightly point out, absolute zero.

As you were...


--
Joe

"I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan


From: W.Wots on

"The Ghost Of Edward M. Kennedy" <ei(a)o.com> wrote in message
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> "Thomas R. Kettler" <tkettler(a)blownfuse.net> wrote
>
>>> >> If the US draws 0-0 and England draws 2-2, the advancing team
>>> >> will be the winner of a RANDOM draw.
>>> >>
>>> >> The athleticism involved in a random draw is simply AM-ZING!
>>> >> The good news is that the odds of England scoring twice is
>>> >> near absolute zero.
>>> >>
>>> >> --Tedward
>>> >
>>> > No less random than a shoot-out (IMO)
>>>
>>> Settling the most important soccer games in the world with a shoot-out
>>> at the end absolutely sucks.
>>>
>>> However, it's still better than flipping a coin.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>
>> Is it worse than the way the NCAA decides BCS Championship Games with
>> alternating possessions from the opponent's 25-yard line negating many
>> things a defense can do?
>
> A shootout is definitely unfair to a counrty with lousy goalies.

Or a team with lousy penalty takers......who can I be thinking of?? :-))


From: Daniel Edwards on
"Thomas R. Kettler" <tkettler(a)blownfuse.net> wrote in
news:tkettler-01FA5E.21211521062010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi:

> In article
> <d96c0351-d4e9-482a-9072-9c4843ca0e0f(a)a30g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> "deemsbill(a)aol.com" <deemsbill(a)aol.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 21, 4:53�pm, Peter Lawrence <hummb...(a)aol.com> wrote:
>> > On 6/21/10 12:29 PM, stephenj wrote:
>> >
>> > > Jefferson N. Glapski wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Tiebreakers in a game consist of playing until someone wins.
>> >
>> > >> Reason #2132 why football, hockey, baseball or basketball is a
>> > >> sport, while soccer isn't.
>> >
>> > > well, they do that in the knockout rounds. Except unlike in our
>> > > football or basketball or baseball, they resort to the bogus
>> > > hockey method of a penalty shootout as a last resort. Sad ...
>> >
>> > Except that in NHL playoffs they don't use shootouts, they play
>> > overtime periods until one team scores the tie-breaking goal.
>> > �(The NHL only use shootouts during the regular season, whereas
>> > soccer is more than happy to end a regular season game in a
>> > draw.)
>>
>> To be fair, soccer games could last FOREVER if they played
>> until
>> someone scored.
>
> Not if the team is playing the US. The US is Matador Central.

I can't believe this thread has gotten this far without anybody paying
Donovan McNabb $1. Because as we all know it's impossible for a US
football game to end in a tie.

--
Daniel Edwards
Memphis, TN