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What might be in the short-term interest of the players participating in a given game (lame and boring tactics designed to win that particular game), might not be in the long-term interests of the sport, which is to have fun, and entertain players & spectators.
Nearly all sports have manipulated their rules to encourage attacking play (shot-clock in basket-ball), fiddling with the off-side rule & banning the back-pass (football), the lbw rule (cricket) etc.
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+1 to no goalie fucking in the crease.
Surely the 2 second rule is to stop accidental/unintentional infractions?
I don't know what was in Jono & Erin's collective mind when they wrote this rule, but to me the 2 second rule is good because it's long enough not stop players riding through slowly, which should be permitted, but short enough to cut out turtling.
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Is it me or is Scholes quite overrated (even at his peak)? Very good player of course, but I heard someone - ex-pro - on the radio say that there were 4 world class English Players in the last 50 years - Bobby Charlton, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne and Paul Scholes. Surely that is bullshit?
Thierry Henry, who was unarguably one of the best of his generation, once said that all the Arsenal team rated Scholes as one of the best that they had played against.
Shame that he was useless in the heat, so never did as well as he could have at an international tournament.
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Mods, if you are going to **** around and merge shit, can you not retitle threads so that it looks like I have started a thread named after me? It makes me look like a big-head, and I don't need any help from you to make myself look ridiculous. Otherwise you, the mods, come off looking as though as though you are abusing your power to take cheap shots at people that can't fire back.