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New soccer rules

February 18th, 2008

I find soccer incredibly boring.

I have never liked the game, or any aspect of it.  The game itself is just a crowd of overpaid nancies running around a field kicking a ball.  Then there is the hysteria and [worst of all] the interminable analysis that accompanies each game.

I have a little proposal to make the game a little more interesting.

Soccer is played on a very large pitch.   10,800 square meters roughly.  Including the referee, there are 23 players on the pitch at any one time.  Correct me if I’m wrong?  Each player takes up only one square meter, so, in the course of a match, the players take up one five-hundredth part of the pitch.  That leaves a hell of a lot of spare space.

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My proposal is simple.

Why not hold two games at the same time?

All you need is two different colour balls, and four different team colours.  Each match will be entirely independent of the other.  You would only need to introduce a couple of extra rules about players using the wrong ball or tackling a player who isn’t their official opponent.

Semi-finals could be played on the same pitch.  Think of the excitement!

Also we could get the damned soccer season over in half the time.

In fact, this principle could be applied to a lot of games.  Rugby?   Cricket?  Tennis?  Baseball?  The list is a long one.

It might even make the game interesting enough for me to watch a game or two.

There is a Jedi in my Spam Box

February 18th, 2008

I have a very free and easy policy when it comes to comments on this blog.

Essentially, my policy is that anyone can comment, and if I don’t like what they have written, then that is my problem.  I won’t delete or modify their posts because I’m not a censor.

There are exceptions to this though.

If one commenter seriously abuses another and launches a personal attack, I will remove or modify the comment[s].  So far, I have only had to do that once.

Another is when a comment comes in that is irrelevant to the topic and is there purely to push someone’s personal agenda on some other topic.  In my book, that is spam.

I had a comment on a post, and it was addressed to me personally.  It was from my old friend "SuperShadow" or whatever his name is.  He used a false email address so I can’t write to him personally, even if I wanted to.  The first line in the comment was..

"Grandad please let this comment thru. Im under pressure from morm-jordil to keep this campaign going. All your other blogging friends hav no problem with it".

Now, I very much doubt that my blogging friends would like to support this kind of campaign, and even if they did, that is their business.  Their policies may differ from mine.

Actually, the subject he is writing about would be an interesting one for debate, but I’m not going to mention it now, as that would be playing his game.  So here is an open challenge to "SuperShadow" or whatever his name is.

If you want a debate, or to make a point, then write to me directly.  Use a valid email address so I can reply.  I am not going to engage in debate with someone who hasn’t even the courage to use a real address.

Until then, your comments will continue to end up in my spam box, where they will be deleted.

May the force be with you.