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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
But the only people who hold the bolded opinion are people who have never watched more than 30 second of hockey in their life. Most people have seen enough soccer and what was seen today was pretty normal, if disappointing. Soccer is a lot like the NBA, far too often referees and not the players decide the game. What do we love about playoff hockey? That the refs let the players decide the games and swallow the whistles. If every game were like Germany-Ghana, that'd be great. Unfortunately refereeing is often too big a factor in games.
Penalties are virtually goals (they're probably converted at an 85-90% rate), so I just think the criteria to get them should be very difficult and not as close as we just saw. Or maybe move the ball back to make penalties more difficult. But the game was over the second the penalty was called, many Greek players acted like they had won, and that was before the kick was even taken. It's very disappointing to see a game end like that.
North American sports fans don't watch much soccer, we all know it. So naturally they don't like it when the game appears like this, because we're not used to it. But like anything else though, soccer fans are used to it, so they accept it. I've thought the NBA is illegitimate for a while yet still watch, because I've accpeted that it is what it is. Some people will never get it either.
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Rules are rules. If you trip someone up in the box it's a penalty. Maybe the penalties aren't so major in hockey but that's the way it is.
Do you want us to change the rules for North Americans ?