wacicha wrote:maybe but she is still winking and at my age you can't say be still my heart --- might not start up again
Man, Wacicha, I love your posts. What kind of accent do you have so I can imagine you saying them?
I love playing soccer but I don't like the 11-a-side format that international and professional soccer uses. I also hate the offside rule, especially when I'm playing 11-a-side myself (depends on ubercompetent officiating, which is asking too much) and think there'd be a lot fewer questionable calls if they had something like the blue line in hockey - a fixed offside line. I think the 11-a-side format leads to game results that don't reflect the true balance of skill on each side - how else could Greece win the Euro? or Trinidad tie Sweden? I wish they changed the format to one that led to higher-scoring games, not just because it would make the game more exciting, but because the better team would more often be the victorious team. Like, say, a 200-by-85 foot field with boards instead of touch lines...and maybe they could give everyone a stick and put ice in there...