Can I necro this thing? It's just because of this new forum area thingy.... I wont repeat it.... soon. 
Football.... a few years ago, I got a lesson on football from an australian guy.
I then tried to find out if he was right... and yeah!
So, as you all know, football was invented in England. What you may not know is that it's name refers to how the game is played: on foot and with a ball. As opposed to playing on horse back, like the english aristocracy did with their polo and other such sports... horseball, they must have called it!
So yeah... being from Portugal, Europe, association football is the standard football around here. We have such teams as "Benfica", "Sporting", "Porto".
We've given the world such players as Eusébio, Figo, Rui Costa or the more recent Cristiano Ronaldo.
I'm with LP... the income each player gets just for playing a game at "pro" level is ludicrous and just makes them look bad when they fail to produce a proper score. Sometimes, I'd think even I could do better than them.
When I realized just how much money one of those guys gathered, I stopped watching. Nowadays, I only watch sports at social events... and I'm the one guy who knows none of the players and has to keep asking questions.
Football.... a few years ago, I got a lesson on football from an australian guy.
I then tried to find out if he was right... and yeah!
So, as you all know, football was invented in England. What you may not know is that it's name refers to how the game is played: on foot and with a ball. As opposed to playing on horse back, like the english aristocracy did with their polo and other such sports... horseball, they must have called it!
So yeah... being from Portugal, Europe, association football is the standard football around here. We have such teams as "Benfica", "Sporting", "Porto".
We've given the world such players as Eusébio, Figo, Rui Costa or the more recent Cristiano Ronaldo.
I'm with LP... the income each player gets just for playing a game at "pro" level is ludicrous and just makes them look bad when they fail to produce a proper score. Sometimes, I'd think even I could do better than them.
When I realized just how much money one of those guys gathered, I stopped watching. Nowadays, I only watch sports at social events... and I'm the one guy who knows none of the players and has to keep asking questions.
