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Subject: Nasty goes to The Match

Posted by: nasty_liar
Date: Jan 15 18

This is my new blog about all things sports.

Warning to any North American readers expecting any of your sports to be featured. They will not. I do not watch Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey or American Football.

I am a huge sports fan though. The most important being football, or soccer to those in North America, in particular the team I have supported since I was a boy. Huddersfield Town.

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nasty_liar

I take it Justify is a strong favourite?

There is quite literally no coverage that I have seen over here so I really am clueless about it. But really, the way I’ve always seen it with horses you have to be invested somehow to find the attraction. So a gambler, a bookmaker or owning/training horses.

I am none of those.

Reply #41. Jun 09 18, 1:38 PM

mpkitty

Our darling Justify just became13th winner of the United States. triple crown . Horseracing,...you gotta love it!

Reply #42. Jun 10 18, 5:57 AM

C30	Never been even remotely interested in Horses, or horse racing. Reply #43. Jun 10 18, 6:51 AM

mpkitty

Sorry, you have no reason to be, you were not raised in the
life of the racetrack as I was. Accept the fact that the sport is very important to the people who love it, as with every other endeavor in life.

Reply #44. Jun 11 18, 11:53 AM

nasty_liar

Whether or not he is accepting of that or not probably wouldn't change his statement.

Sunday was the French Open tennis final. I think this must be the first time in years that I have not been able to find time to watch even so much as a ball during the fortnight. Nadal, of course, has made history. 11 titles is incredible. King of clay pretty much sums up his utter dominance on the surface. I think both he and Federer have redesigned out expectations of what domination of a sport is. The sheer longevity of their stay at the top of the game is remarkable. Usually periods of dominance are fairly short lived, maybe confined to a period of 3 or 4 years before another comes along to take over. Either the top player cannot sustain it over years and years or others work out their secret. This did happen to Federer and Nadal in the form of Djokovic but they have happened to emerge from the other side of Djokovic's more typical period of dominance and now be the forces once again.

Nadal's style of play is truly remarkable and so is the way he has managed to sustain his career beyond what his body could have been expected to handle earlier in his career. He changed things up ever so slightly in an effort to shorten points and lengthen his career once he started suffering serious injuries. I think Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, the two other proponents of what I like to think of as ultimate physicality tennis, have paid the price for not attempting something similar to sustain their careers.

Looking forward to seeing whether Fed can win another Wimbledon!

Reply #45. Jun 11 18, 3:32 PM

samak

We're about to get spoilt with both the World Cup and Wimbledon on at the same time.
I read an opinion piece saying that being an England supporter in the World Cup was like being an over-optimistic parent of the fat kid on Sports Day. Seemed a bit harsh !

Reply #46. Jun 11 18, 4:22 PM

mpkitty

So, is horseracing not welcome here? It is a sport, after all, and the horses and jockeys are great athletes.

Reply #47. Jun 11 18, 10:00 PM

C30

I don't recall saying that horse racing was not welcome, merely that I have no interest in it..........whether or not it is welcome is for Nasty to indicate as he is the originator of this thread,
Incidentally, my Uncle Jack was for many years a professional racehorse trainer at York

Reply #48. Jun 12 18, 1:29 AM

nasty_liar

I have no objection to horse racing, I cannot speak intelligently about it because I deliberately avoid it as I may be tempted into placing bets that I cannot resist or afford to
make.

I did make it pretty clear at the top though that I won’t be discussing American sports because there is practically no coverage here and anyway, I have enough with the sports that I do follow to keep up with them.

As I said previously, though, for anyone interested in horse racing it will be a fascinating sport to follow with all of its rich history and the combination of person and beast. Once you possess that level of in depth knowledge then the enjoyment only increases.

Take the World Cup for example, and samak’s anecdote is amusing, this will be my 8th World Cup. I have the knowledge watching those previous tournaments, what happened, who featured etc. I also have knowledge of the competitions prior to that through clips, reading about them or hearing about them from others. I also follow Football more generally by watching or keeping track of domestic competition. So I know who many of the players are and who they play for across Europe (mainly). I know many of their career histories and what they have won domestically or not won. It becomes a rich tapestry that really serves to accentuate the enjoyment of watching.

England prediction, and I hope I’m wrong, win 1, draw 1, lose 1 and go out in round 1 on goal difference.

Reply #49. Jun 12 18, 6:18 AM

C30

Prediction? Dangerous "sport" predicting football scores (which is why I only won the princely sum of £7.50p on football pools in over 20 years of trying))..........but here goes..........manage to scrape through preliminary round, then go out after penalty shoot out - as is traditional (unless they face Iceland, in which case exit without penalties).
To sum up.........."HOPE" England do well....yes. "EXPECT" them to do well....no.

Reply #50. Jun 13 18, 2:14 AM

terraorca

Is this the HQ for all things World Cup?

Russia just demolished Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the opener.
Only game scheduled for today.

Reply #51. Jun 14 18, 11:25 AM

nasty_liar

I think the best place to keep everyone in one place would be Lpez’s thread in the sports section of the chat boards. Not that it isn’t welcome.

Great win for Russia! They have the advantage and disadvantage of home advantage. The ‘wind behind your back’ of being roared on by home fans can be balanced against the enormous pressure and expectation of an entire country.

Reply #52. Jun 14 18, 1:49 PM

terraorca

I think that Russia has one of the easiest brackets as well.

Reply #53. Jun 14 18, 4:08 PM

nasty_liar

I think it is the weakest group by far. That is often the case when the host nation is a lowly ranked one but as hosts they are in the top seeded pot when the groups are picked.

Saudi Arabia were terrible defensively though. The comedy double missed sliding tackles just prior to Russia's second goal was gold.

Reply #54. Jun 14 18, 5:05 PM

Lpez

Thank you for the shout-out Bernard! Terraorca, we would love for you to join the discussion at:

Forums: http://www.funtrivia.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/1197079#Post1197079

Chat Boards:
http://www.funtrivia.com/bb.cfm?action=details&qnid=30161&boardid=10

I agree, the double sliding tackles were hilarious!

Reply #55. Jun 14 18, 7:38 PM

Blackdresss

I have so many "World Cup" options when I search my DirecTV, I don't know what it is I'm looking for. Boxing, Special, Compound Finals, Recurve Finals, Apparatus Finals, Cricket 2027, Cricket 2028?

Reply #56. Jun 16 18, 9:28 AM

Blackdresss

Peru v. Denmark?

I can see how many minutes are left (???) but there is zero action, and zero score.

Are they just warming up?

Reply #57. Jun 16 18, 9:33 AM

Blackdresss

I think I figured it out. I have far too many options, though.

Reply #58. Jun 16 18, 9:56 AM

Blackdresss

I figured it out, alright, and watched all of it, and now I am more confused than I was before I found the match! Or whatever it is. Played on the pitch, not the field, with men in $4,000 suits showing up looking like supermodels right out of Milan. Not that that's a bad thing, mind you.

How do you know when a game/match is over? How did you learn this game? What do the refs do? Why do some of the players have uniforms that look like the refs? Do those bajillions of fans in the stands actually understand this?

I could write out the rules for baseball, football, hockey, probably even curling, but soccer/futbol? I am completely baffled, right down to the clock running backwards, with seconds or minutes added or taken off, seemingly at will, and all those cards being handed out, to keep forever? And the multi-colored flags that may or may not mean anything.

We did have a teammate explain these rules to us two years ago on a wild snow day I was having, when I sat down to spend hours trying to figure this out, and her "rules" are hilarious, but so far, they are mostly spot on, too.

Is this a game you just have to grow up knowing, right along with the day your learned to take your first steps? Because my brain does not compute, and I LOVE sports!

Reply #59. Jun 16 18, 12:43 PM

brm50diboll

As a red-blooded American who rarely watches soccer (except for the late rounds at the Olympics and the World Cup), I will say this: the rules of soccer are actually quite simple to understand, much easier than typical American sports like American football, baseball, basketball, or hockey. Soccer is a very simple game, and cheap too. By that I mean the equipment and facilities required to play soccer is much less expensive than for most other sports. This is probably one of the main reasons why it is so popular in third world countries. Gee, why don't they play polo or golf or ice hockey in Ghana? Well, guess! Now the simplicity of the game is part of its problem attracting much attention in the US. For one thing, at the highest levels (which is what I and other casual watchers in America typically see) defense dominates. So 2-1 or 1-0 scores in high level soccer games are common. To American eyes, this equates to 22 guys running around on grass for over an hour and a half and rarely scoring. A soccer game that is high scoring usually occurs in mismatched blowouts. But the so-called "difficult" aspects of soccer really aren't hard to understand if you pay attention to the calls. I do not understand when Americans say "offside" is confusing. It is not. You can't pass the ball (by kicking, obviously, I say that for the Americans) to a teammate who has gotten closer to the opponent's goal than any defender on the other team has backed up to (excepting the goal tender, of course.) Throw-ins, corner kicks, penalty kicks, yellow and red cards - all those rules are easy to understand.

Reply #60. Jun 16 18, 2:20 PM

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