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[Kev]

Congrats. You will never get your youth back.


But I have always found it off that a redneck like yourself would care anything at all about soccer.

I love how people just assume I'm some toothless yokel...I'm actually quite cultured and yes I appreciate soccer, hell I played it growing up just like I played lacrosse and ice hockey, yup ice hockey.....I love sports. I'm continually shocked (and this is a bit off topic) that people in or around sports can be liberal (mind I'm not calling you one) I just think its contradictory there are mismatches in sports all the time nobody levels the playing field to compensate for talent or coaching and when the little David topples Goliath without help, without an even "fair" playing field its monumental.

BTW I was a huge goon in ice hockey and lacrosse....I mean they gave me a 6 ft metal stick and it was LEGAL for me to hit people with it, I mean holy shit!

They do in American football with the shitty draft system. That's why I stopped watching it. If a team is so shit that they lose every game why do they get the reward of first draft pick the following year?

It's anti biblical. 'To him who has more shall be given, and he shall have an abundance. But to him who has not, even that which he has shall be taken away'...

Can't we stick to the Bible version? That's what we do in the UK. You finish bottom of the football league you are told to 'FUCK OFF' and get booted into amatuer football with someone more deserving coming in.

But I definitely agree with your sentiments Lyle. Sport should reflect talent and eliteness. It's not a meritocracy nor should it ever be.