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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Ok, maybe I misunderstood your term. How are defining "full contact" as used in your sentence?
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I said/meant - Hockey is like full contact, faster soccer. If soccer was played on ice and was full contact, it would be hockey.
I also don't think credit is given to the roughness of soccer. The whining and diving definitely gives it a pansy-feel, and its no hockey or rugby, but kicks in the shins/ankles with enough force to break them clean in half, colliding mid-air for headers, and taking full-power shots off the head in general. It's pretty rough out there and, just like hockey, you normally see dives on things like trips and plays that could gain advantages like penalties. You rarely see people diving after colliding head-head jumping for a ball after sprinting. That stuff actually hurts.
What they really need is more than one guy out there giving out penalties. If that had two or three mobile refs, it would probably curb the diving a lot more.
Soccer, more than a lot of sports, is very blinded by tradition, hence things like Englands non-goal from the last WC.