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Originally Posted by memyselfI
Did you see Frazod's post on that thread. He basically stated (to his credit) that one reason he will not support the sport is because of the different races and ethnic peoples involved. I find his view repulsive but the idea that he's HONESTY about why he cannot get into the sport is most welcome.
Likewise, Whitlock tried to touch on the racial aspect of soccer in his backwards piece about how the US should be dominating and how they are not the underdogs because of their color and birth place. Which is ridiculous because the sport is basically in it's infancy as far as the US being competitive on a world level.
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Originally Posted by frazod
**** soccer.
**** the world cup.
**** all these third world goat herders who find this awful, vile, boring game even remotely interesting.
And **** the media for attempting to force it down our throats.
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I'm no Fraz defender, but no where in there does he say hate dislikes the game b/c it's diverse, he starts off disliking the game, and spreads that dislike to 'third world goat herders' who like it.
And your interpretation of Whitlock's piece somehow manages to outfail Whitlock himself. No where did he so much as intone that we were better because of our race and class. He was arguing we were better because we're much higher rated and Algeria barely squeaked into the Cup itself. He has a myopic view of what those rankings mean on the pitch, but he was using rankings, not racial superiority. MoF, he tried to knock the game down a peg for what he observed as game play being a proxy for racial relativity for some fans.
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Originally Posted by Whitlock
We couldn’t put away Algeria until the 91st minute. Algeria was Cinderella. It sneaked into the World Cup by slipping past African Cup powerhouse Egypt. . . .
We have the 14th-ranked team in the world. We should’ve spanked Algeria 4-nil. Yes, a linesman stole a first-half goal from us with a bogus offsides call. But we missed more wide-open bunnies than the Los Angeles Clippers. We were ragged and sloppy.
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