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FIFA World Cup 2014

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matante said:
Yes and I'll add one more. I would have liked for someone to call for him being prosecuted by the law. Biting someone is not the same as a slide tackle gone wrong. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the game. If Suarez bit someone out on the street he would be arrested and no one would claim he didn't deserve it, but because he does it during a match it's considered okay to leave his punishment up to FIFA.

There was a case in hockey many years ago where one player attacked another in such a way that they actually brought the police into it and charged him with assault, I think, and I would like to see more of that. Being in a stadium shouldn't give you license to do things you wouldn't do on the street.
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If you are thinking about the Chara check in Montreal that is an example of exactly why you do not want to bring the civil authorities into a sporting match. The District Attorneys essentially caved into delirious fan pressure to prosecute something that was a hard clean hit. I heard an interview with the spokesman for the Montreal Police Department where he very diplomatically made it clear that the police thought it was a farce but they have to do what they are told. The charges were eventually dropped but not after a huge waste of money and time. If something can get that far in Montreal which is a world class city in a first-world nation, what would happen in smaller places with less stable governments?
 
#2,025
i_got_a_mohawk said:
Saw an article today, apparently anyone in America who watches football (soccer) isn't a real American and any increase in interest in football is a sign of the nation's moral decay (according to Ann Coulter).

You bunch of commie pinkos!
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See this right here is the real reason to a previous discussion on the Mexico vs USA rivalry. Its not that Mexicans don't respect the US teams strength, it's more of an issue of the lack of support for the game. Futbol is the biggest sport in the world. Might not be too big in the US but at least recognize its impact on a global scale. But the country doesn't respect it. How many times do u get "that's not real football". So when the topic of rivalry comes up its not we don't respect you as a team, it's more of a "why are you guys trying to talk smack, you guys don't even respect the sport". At least that's the consensus I've seen around the Los Angeles area. This a highly Latin based city so futbol is big amongst the Latin American community.
 
#2,030
jrthebassguy said:
What's up with Mexican fans shouting an "Anti-gay slur" (according to ESPN) at every goal kick/free kick?

Despite working in an area where Spanish is almost as common as English, I don't speak a word of Spanish.
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That's just a common tradition in the Mexican league, every time the goalkeeper kicks off its chanted as a distraction. It translates as a gay slur to English, but it's common Spanish "slang" that isn't used as a gay reference. Hard to explain or find a comparison too. Maybe in English it's on terms of calling ur buddy a B**** when it has nothing to do with a female reference, female dog, just common slang. Trust me Not trying to justify it at all either.
 
#2,031
dangnewt said:
If you are thinking about the Chara check in Montreal that is an example of exactly why you do not want to bring the civil authorities into a sporting match. The District Attorneys essentially caved into delirious fan pressure to prosecute something that was a hard clean hit. I heard an interview with the spokesman for the Montreal Police Department where he very diplomatically made it clear that the police thought it was a farce but they have to do what they are told. The charges were eventually dropped but not after a huge waste of money and time. If something can get that far in Montreal which is a world class city in a first-world nation, what would happen in smaller places with less stable governments?
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I don't think that was it as I remember it involved someone being attacked with a stick. It was a long time ago. My bigger point is that just because you are a big company, that does not give you the authority to decide how to handle an assault. If I beat up a person at McDonald's, McDonald's does not, and should not, have the authority to decide whether to call the police or handle it 'in house'.

What Suarez did was assault, and that's a criminal offense. It wasn't a harsh tackle or anything remotely related to the sport.

jrthebassguy said:
What's up with Mexican fans shouting an "Anti-gay slur" (according to ESPN) at every goal kick/free kick?

Despite working in an area where Spanish is almost as common as English, I don't speak a word of Spanish.
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"Puto" simply means "whore" in Spanish. It's meant to upset the keeper. I don't like it but it started in the league and spread to the national team. I think it will die down soon.
 
#2,036
matante said:
It's fairly new, so I wouldn't call it a tradition. It started with Atlas fans and slowly grew from there.
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No yeah it's pretty new. But it's so prominent in the Mexican league where broadcasts will mute the sound after every kick off now. So it's a prominent tradition for Mexican soccer is what I meant.

On a side note this games to much! Too close! The stress is overbearing but thank God we have Memo Ochoa!
 

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