Newsflash! Soccerball International Championship thread?

[tiger roach]

Getting rid of the offsides rule would make it a completely different game, it would just be a free-for-all.

 

[jbj]

And they should scrap the offside rule while they're at it, if they ever hope to achieve the truly global reach of e.g. the Superbowl.

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Yay, long balls and poaching strikers all game

 

[vonbladet]

Getting rid of the offsides rule would make it a completely different game, it would just be a free-for-all.

I realise some of you ultras won't like it, but sacrifices may have to be made if the "beautiful game" is going to have a chance of going mainstream.

 

[Knox in Box]

"mainstream"

 

[vonbladet]

"mainstream"

Unpossible as it nows seem, it could have been a contender.

 

[Knox in Box]

Unpossible as it nows seem, it could have been a contender.

I'm making the point that American acceptance is moot when the 2014 finale was watched by over a billion people worldwide. Why change the game to appease the states?

 

[jbj]

I believe we're being japed gents.

 

[frunobulax]

The only thing I would change would be to allow for the VAR to adjudicate play-acting and fakery and hand out yellow cards early.

 

[Danhedonia]

Drivel

We'll remember that the next time there's a World War.

 

[bsman]

We'll remember that the next time there's a World War.

....and we'll participate four years after the fact rather than three?

 

[Jbird]

....and we'll participate four years after the fact rather than three?

No, we will start it this time

 

[Guitar Heel]

Every bandwagon I jumped in crashed into a tree. My sincere apologies to the following:

Brazil
Belgium
England
Croatia.