Friday, May 26, 2006 at 10:13
"...4 years to get through to the 32 countries that came play in the final series...."
4 yrs to do 32 soccer matches, 6 months to do 26 in AFL and about the same in NRL.
It can take 5 days to get through on cricket match. It's rarely important to watch any of the first three....and like cricket there is nothing interesting about a draw after 80 mins of play, or 5 days of play.
Your point being???????
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The pent up frustration through nil all
draws after 80 mins is the thing that causes the violence in the spectators. Any sport that actually has a result, makes the decision for the spectators about who is the better team. The psychology of a nil all draw (*or any draw) is the thing that leads the supporters to having to (defensively/offensively justify their support of a team (sometimes violently), as both teams are percieved as "losers", rather than "equal" or "winners". If you didn't clearly "win", you "lost".
A good illustration is the US with their gridiron, basketball, and baseball teams. Here is a culture in which vilence is an everyday occurrance, guns are rife, and gangs regularly set upon one another, yet when was the last time you heard of a major brawl spewing out onto the sports field, or occurring outside a stadium after a match? How often do their games result in a draw? A bit simplistic, but food for thought.....
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