Heavens to Murgatroyd, I can see how the people who like soccer can like soccer. Just say something critical about the sport and they flop out. It’s bashing! It’s bigotry!
OK, I’m just kidding. I played soccer as a kid. It’s a great sport when you’re a kid and need any excuse to go outside and run. But then I discovered basketball and football (and scoreboards with more than one digit).
Also, I still can’t get past this aspect, which Prof. Sanderson discussed:
I also admit to being flummoxed by watching the “disconnect” in the World Cup finals: For 120 minutes everyone was involved in the action and the probability of scoring was approximately zero, then we switched to the penalty-kick phase in which only two players are involved at a time and the probability of scoring was about 100 percent. Settling a tie in basketball after 40 or 48 minutes of action by letting the five players on each team shoot one free throw, or picking the Masters champion by seeing how many consecutive 10-foot putts Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson could make, would leave us quite dissatisfied, whatever the eventual outcome.
