Suarez, cheater or heros ?
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From: HASM on 4 Jul 2010 10:39 Mike Hall <tarrow(a)yahoo.com> writes: > Every deliberate foul in order to gain an advantage is cheating. If > everyone does it, everyone is cheating. End of. So if that is so crystal clear, why are lots of people complaining all of a sudden? I don't remember a match where deliberate fouls to gain some sort of an advantage weren't committed multiple times, hence the number of cautions given in matches for the last N years, where N is large. There's nothing new here. > Like I implied, it's not a question of morality, it is simply the > Queen's English. I'll ask the Queen next time I see her, -- HASM
From: Mike Hall on 5 Jul 2010 08:13
On 4 July, 15:39, HASM <netn...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > Mike Hall <tar...(a)yahoo.com> writes: > > Every deliberate foul in order to gain an advantage is cheating. If > > everyone does it, everyone is cheating. End of. > > So if that is so crystal clear, why are lots of people complaining all of a > sudden? Because it is the World Cup Finals, where cheats embarrass everyone who loves football in front of billions of viewers. Also the stakes are huge here. The finance markets rise and fall over results. The entire national psyche of countries is affected resulting in life/ death changes. The squad members are supposed to be the best of a generation of young men, and how they act is a direct reflection on how we all act. FIFA has virtually encouraged cheats to prosper, forcing everyone else to cheat to keep pace. It is time to change the direction the game is heading in as we have entire teams whose strategy seems to be to to throw themselves on the ground in order to gain free kicks and wave imaginary cards. The game needs fixing, and Suarez's immoral act was as good a place as any to draw the line. As you know, FIFA chickened out, again! Mike Hall |