World Cup thread - thanks Brexit...

[Speaker to Animals]

It's literally the kind of game a subsistence farmer's kid would play. It requires a ball. That's it.

[Montegriffo]

Baseball requires just a bat and a ball, does that make it third world too?
Is cricket therefore a better game because it needs more kit and a prepared pitch?
Where are you going with this third world game bollocks?

[Speaker to Animals]

Bat
Base ball
Four bases
Helmets
Enough clay to build a diamond

Sure

[Montegriffo]

Ball
2 netted goals
shin pads
studded football boots
area of flat grass approx 100m x 50m

Still don't know where you are going with this...

[Speaker to Animals]

[Montegriffo]

[Montegriffo]

Before the civil war cricket was more popular than baseball in America. Due to the fact troops could play baseball on any surface with the minimum of equipment baseball took over in popularity.
According to your logic this makes it a third world game worthy of scorn.
Why do you hate America?

[Speaker to Animals]

Bare minimum:

Soccer needs a rubber ball.

Baseball needs a wooden bat and a leather ball.

So right there you know baseball is at least twice as expensive as soccer, and for people living on less than a dollar per day, that choice is a no-brainer.

[Montegriffo]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/filipbondy ... d6c0803c53

I’m sure you’ve heard that old, dismissive insult from hardline cynics: “Soccer is the sport of the future in America … and always will be.” Except that now, finally, fans of the beautiful game have numeric proof of its growing popularity.

A Gallup poll released last week found that 7% of Americans named soccer as their favorite sport to watch in a survey completed during December. While that may not sound like much, the figure represents a significant, three-percentage-point gain from just four years ago. Soccer is the only sport to post such a large increase. Football (37%, down from 39%), basketball (11%, down from 12%) and baseball (9%, down from 13%) all showed declining numbers. Hockey was at 4%, up from 3%.

The arrows are clearly pointing in definitive directions, and it is very likely that soccer will surpass baseball in this survey the next time such a poll is taken. Even more telling are the demographics behind those numbers: Only 1% of those polled by Gallup aged 55 or over named soccer as their favorite. But among adults aged 18-34, soccer was the favorite sport of 11%, tying basketball; only 6% of younger adults chose baseball as their favorite sport.

[Speaker to Animals]

Well, we've been discussing the growing numbers of soyboys, especially from the millineal generation, in numerous threads for years now.

Why should it surprise me that soccer gains popularity roughly proportionate to the numbers of fem beta males? Who do you think plays this fucking game as an adult?