Ant-Shimmin Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 If anyone wants a good advert for Football, Watch last night's La Liga... Up until the last two Minutes Barca would of been 2 Points Clear on the last day, Sevilla would of been out of the race and Real Madrid would need to win and hope Barca draw or lose. During the last two minutes Van Nistlerooy Equalised for Real Madrid and 20 Seconds later Espanyol equalised against Barca. To keep all three in the race on the last day... Classic Football
mcj metroid Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 screw both of them, the french open mens finals is today ^_^ Tennis > everything else. I prefer women's tennis mind you but ya i agree.
Daft Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Does anyone know what channel the French Open final is on??
Guest Stefkov Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I prefer women's tennis mind you but ya i agree. Yesterdays was pretty dull, Ivanovic vs someone else. Pretty boring game. I would expect BBC1 to show the French Open Final, they did show the womens yesterday.
Daft Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Yesterdays was pretty dull, Ivanovic vs someone else.Pretty boring game. I would expect BBC1 to show the French Open Final, they did show the womens yesterday. Yea but I think it is only highlights...I think it might be on Eurosport. Starts at 2, right?
conzer16 Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Pretty shocked tbh, to see how soccer football is annihilating rugby! Although I probably shouldnt bte - the 6 nations thread on here was occupied almost exclusively by motion, Fierce_LiNk and me
motion Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I'm amazed rugby is doing so well, considering football is the national sport of the UK! Guess more people like rugby than I thought, only 66% of people prefer football.
Ant-Shimmin Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Maybe there is a correlation between Nintendo Fans and Rugby Fans...
Fierce_LiNk Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Maybe there is a correlation between Nintendo Fans and Rugby Fans... Yeah. Nintendo fans are as 'ard as nails! Not suggesting that footie watchers are sissies or anything..just that..oh, nevermind. *mutters*
Zell Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Pretty shocked tbh, to see how soccer football is annihilating rugby! Although I probably shouldnt bte - the 6 nations thread on here was occupied almost exclusively by motion, Fierce_LiNk and me That's probably because you live in Ireland, football is super-big in England (you probably already know that).
Ant-Shimmin Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I think that could be true though because it is very common to find that gamers do not play sports, especially Football.
conzer16 Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Maybe there is a correlation between Nintendo Fans and Rugby Fans... Only 31.82% of the folks on here are Ninty fans
Fierce_LiNk Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I think that could be true though because it is very common to find that gamers do not play sports, especially Football. To be honest, a lot of people on this forum are probably the direct opposite of what you would call a stereotypical gamer. We actually have lives! We go out, we socialise, we play sports, we have love for other things.
conzer16 Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 That's probably because you live in Ireland, football is super-big in England (you probably already know that). I would have expected it to be a little closer tbh - I knew football would be more popular but didnt expect it to be by a 2:1 factor
Ant-Shimmin Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 To be honest, a lot of people on this forum are probably the direct opposite of what you would call a stereotypical gamer. We actually have lives! We go out, we socialise, we play sports, we have love for other things. Yeah I totally agree mate from the time I have been here. I just notice that people that I know personally who are hardcore gamers aren't exactly BIG sports fans, Especially Football. Not that they don't have a life because they don't follow sports
motion Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I thought it would be 5:1 personally. I've never known a nintendo fan who likes rugby before I joined this board.
BeerMonkey Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 im not much of a football fan these days i dont like rugby
conzer16 Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I thought it would be 5:1 personally. I've never known a nintendo fan who likes rugby before I joined this board. Maybe Zell is right - in Ireland football and rugby enjoy a 50/50 split, and elsewhere in Europe especially the UK, Spain etc. football is by far and away the most popular.
Zell Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Well here's a list of figures courtesy of wikipedia: Premiership total attendance: 13,057,940 Championship total attendance: 10,057,952 League 1 total attendance: 4,133,928 League 2 total attendance: 2,281,416 Conference total attendance: 913,898 Guiness Premiership total attendance: 1,539,334 Division 1 total attendance: No figures Division 2 total attendance: 71,747 I know it's by no means a fair comparison (due to number of games played and stadium capacities etc) but football is in the overwhelming majority.
motion Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Looks like there should be a 13:1 split then, rather than 2:1. Interesting... Bear in mind, there are 20 teams in the football premiership, vs 12 in the rugby premiership. Not to mention 3, 4 times bigger capacity stadiums and, double the amount of games... So actaully those figures are bollocks and can't be compared.
Ant-Shimmin Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Don't some Rugby teams share stadia with Football Teams... Wigan and Hull spring to mind
motion Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 Those are rugby league teams, we're talking about union.
Roostophe Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 Football has been ruined, but if you can do what I do, and look past all the bad, and attend a match and sit on a stand such as The Kop or The Holte End, where the most passionate and loudest fans sit, take in the atmosphere and watch an entertaining match for 90 minutes plus, then do it, otherwise, say nothing. Perhaps the greatest match I went to was Villa versus Sheffield United this season, when a full capacity Villa Park cheered the heroes of 1982, as we waved our free scarves and sung about our team being the greatest the world has ever seen, then cheered our current squad as they cruised to an easy 3-0 victory in their most entertaining performance of the season. Basically, if I could sum up the beauty of football, I would use that match as an example. There are stupid footballers who fall like a sack of spuds when they fall over a blade of grass, but I look at this picture below and know they aren't all prima donnas.
StarGuitar Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 Football all the way. It's just poetry in motion sometimes. Argentina Vs. Serbia springs to mind. Also, the fans seem a lot more passionate. It has always been deemed as 'the working man's game' and this really does show with regard supporters. I hate to admit it, but Liverpool's fan's are awesome. I hate to use a cliché but they really are the twelfth man more often than not. Also, any of you guys apart from the Irish ones obviously, familiar with Gaelic Football?
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