I really don't like soccer, let's get that straight. Clearly soccer players are great athletes who can do some pretty amazing things, they just happen to play a lousy game in which you hardly ever get to see any of those amazing things. Instead you pointlessly watch them chase the ball around a giant field, not scoring on the huge net wondering what the hell is going on. Why is that offside? Why do they keep going backwards? Don't they want to score?
Also for some reason soccer trainers have learned that the miracle cure for injuries is spraying water on them. Why trainers in all other sports in the entire world have not learned this is a great mystery.
So anyways there is this great outrage about Ireland losing out on the World Cup because a French player used his hand in the winning play and the official missed it. Apparently this is more than just a player gaining advantage and not getting caught, it's cheating of the highest order and the game needs to be replayed or somebody needs a hand cut off or something.
Being a hater of soccer I usually don't care about these things, but I caught a slow motion replay of the play in question on the news and I have to say that was pretty awesome! A bunch of guys crashing the net, ball comes out of nowhere, player knocks it down with his hand, to his FOOT, passes it to another guy who heads it in! Right in front of the net! Action! Score!
If the guy hadn't cheated I'm guessing the ball would have gone out the end and nothing would have happened. Like normal. How is that better?
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