“but please don’t comment about soccer as clearly you know nothing about it.”

Pretty typical commentary by the Soccer crowd. What is there to know about soccer that is so complicated? I hear this crap all the time like soccer is some complicated brain surgery. Give me a fucking break.

I grew up watching soccer since I was 6 years old. I have benefit of insight. Stop judging people you know nothing about.

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Not that I should expect insight out of someone who throws around the insult “socialist faggots” and just likes to rant about how Europe sucks with no apparent reason as to why this is so but rather just because that is the “cool” thing to do.

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So, you’re denying that they’re either socialist or faggots?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4473001.stm

Calling Europeans “socialist faggots,” is not an insult. It’s an apt description of exactly what’s going on ever there. Read the news.

Goat, I’m Korean. You should have foreseen where things would ultimately, ultimately, lead to.

Actually, I did watch the South Korea : France game.

And I, having watched the South Korea : Swiss game, don’t think that South Korea got robbed in that game.

Get rid of that stupid, off-side penalty that not even God would understand. Maybe, just maybe, that would improve the thing called scoring an incy tiny bit, if you wold mind not being so dry and boring, hmm??

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I’m still looking forward to that little bit of edit function by the way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/h.....141866.stm

What an arrogant bunch of Socialist faggots Europeans are. They still think they rule the World. Hey, OLD WORLD, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE FUCKING COFFEE! It ain’t tea anymore folks. It’s Coffee. Like in AMERICA. A place you can actually called developed!

Well, since technologically advanced Asian Countries are bypassing these Old World, Socialist idiots by. Stupid soccer bureaucracy maybe the only thing that still makes them feel relevant in the modern world. It’s psychologically critical to them, I guess.

This World Cup pretty much proved just how worthless Soccer matches are to begin with.

Only a worthless Third World Country would care for a game that stupid, and only an Englishmen would develop a game that insipid and sell that crap to rest of the stupid World.

Baseball is ten times more nuanced that that pile of garbage.

treatment of foreigners: as a tourist it’s quite wonderful, as an Albanian or North African illegal, it isn’t exactly like sweet ice cream-licking over there…

I must admit, you lost me…

As Sugar Shin alluded to, it would probably not take a lot of research to find corruption of varying degrees in any big business - of which professional sports are no different.

Regarding your second paragraph, it always amazes me how you manage to contort everything into a slight towards Korea. And just for the record, please explain to me how on Earth Zidane’s comments about his poor play versus Korea (if you watched the game it is difficult to disupte) ignite it further? Ignite what? And how does “I played like shit” = “Korea sucks”?!? So, Zidane playing like crap = match fixing/betting –> Italian Series A scandal. mmmmmmkay.

In light of these comments, just what should I make of the Korean calls that the Swiss game was fixed (due to Blatter being Swiss and all…)? I am using this example due to familiarity - and that is the only reason. Like I mentioned earlier, the same situation can probably be found in each and every country that has anything resembling a professional sports league.

Finally, it sucks. I am cut off from one of my favorite sites…again.

What bothers me most of Italian football and their society in general are the similarities to… ahem, the Southern half of the Korea peninsula: civil distrust to state, law and governmental institutions (although for good reasons), corruption and nepotism in everyday life, much talk - no deeds. As a matter of course the main influental voices from Italian sports and politics talk about AMNESTY (sic!) for scandal-involved Seria A-clubs. Doesn’t that remind you, how such scandals are dealt with in Korea?

Hmmm… must be a peninsula thing.

Not to mention the renaissance architecture, fine cuisine, catholic culture, treatment of foreigners…

you think, there isn’t a widespread graft-taking, game-manipulating mafia manipulating the K-League with fraud and underhand dealings? I wouldn’t bet my balls for that assumption.

As you said, the heavy sentences for the Italian top-clubs are not legally binding. Guess they’ll get a milder conviction at the appellate court.

What bothers me most of Italian football and their society in general are the similarities to… ahem, the Southern half of the Korea peninsula: civil distrust to state, law and governmental institutions (although for good reasons), corruption and nepotism in everyday life, much talk - no deeds. As a matter of course the main influental voices from Italian sports and politics talk about AMNESTY (sic!) for scandal-involved Seria A-clubs. Doesn’t that remind you, how such scandals are dealt with in Korea?