Comments on: MATT TACKLES…RUGBY FRIENDS WATCHING FOOTBALL

By: Kevin-o-connell

Kevin-o-connell — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:59:00 +0000

Firstly this article is incredibly stupid and ignorant!For someone to say something this stupid furthers the notion that soccer/football fans are stupid idiots.I love rugby and have a passing interest in soccer (I’m Irish, football is Gaelic football) but reading this article and these comments has turn me off the game to be honest.Footballers aren’t overpaid?Give me a break.Fair enough, players like Rooney or Messi deserve those sorts of wages because they are among the best players in the world,but someone like Kevin Kilbane (who is at best,an average player) earns in a month what Brian O Driscoll,possibly the best rugby player in the world, earns in a year.The idea that all rugby players are just large brainless idiots is just ridiculous.Admittedly players are getting larger and larger but someone like O’Driscoll is incredily skillful so that idea is preposterous.You have to admit that someone like Ronan O’Gara or Jonny Wilkinson is as skillful when putting the ball right over the black spot from 50m is as Beckham curling a free kick into the top corner.in response to Hugh’s comment, South Africa aren’t slightly better than England, they’re miles ahead, akin to England in soccer

Secondly, I’m appalled at AZ’s comment below.Be as stupid as you want about popularity but DO NOT BE SUCH AN IGNORANT CUNT and bring homosexuality into the equation.Any rugby fan who posted a comment didn’t stoop as low as to calling soccer someting like “Poofball”.When Gareth Thomas came out at least he was treated well by fans (apart from a few ignorant Castleford league pricks),unlike in soccer,where,knowing that track record,he’d have killed himself by now.Soccer fans,not just the ones on this site,need to clean up their act when it comes to these things.

By: shaw

shaw — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:07:25 +0000

right just to say you all have no respect for sport every sport is diffrent and has diffrent styles of peaple who can play it best basketball tall and thin meanwhile in rugby you can either be very large or smallish but fast and football is genrally in the middle but all these sports require diffrent skills and if u respect sport you will respect this like me and im sure many others do.

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:04:34 +0000

Dicky are you kidding? Do you even have a clue about how many people watch the world cup on tv? 750 million people watched the world cup final in ’06 and the whole tournament racked up over 26 billion in cummulative viewers. I want to see the NFL or rugby put up those kind of numbers. Football is not getting less popular, all the time it’s getting more and more popular in the US. ESPN is playing EPL games every weekend, even MLS, and Central and South American games are on throughout the week including tournaments like CONCACAF, the Champions League. And you’re seeing football highlights making it into the top ten reels on all major sports networks in America, so football is obviously growing here. And your arguement about only a tiny portion of India playing soccer is absolutely idiotic because anyone knows that in India everyone plays cricket. Everyone. And I don’t see rugby doing very well compared to football, or even the NFL, on the financial side of things either.

Not to say that American Football and rugby are good sports in their own, it’s just that their players and fans can be so freaking dense sometimes it’s absolutely ridiculous.

By: El Heatho

El Heatho — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:36:19 +0000

Dicky what the heck r u doing on this website with such stupid views maybe you should go and hit your head against a pole sum more and go share your crap with the other 5 union supporters in the world or maybe the 2 new one s u found in germany!

By: AZ

AZ — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:33:45 +0000

Excuse me Dicky really what are you doing on this website? Its a FOOTball Website take your Fagby Union somewhere else where its appreciated, oh yeah thats right there is nowhere where Fagby Is appreciated .

By: Dicky

Dicky — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:37:15 +0000

Football just lost it’s way since the early 1990′s. To call it the world’s favorite sport is ridiculous. It’s a girls’ game or minority sport for the upper classes in most of the English speaking world. It’s got a tiny player based in India, the world’s second biggest nation by population.
Football is fun to play, but hell to watch. Popular because of it’s simplicity, it’s a lowest common-denominator, ugly spectacle. I can appreciate what is (or was) good about football. Rugby is infinitely superior though.
Rugby and in particular Union is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. The fastest growing sport in Germany, biggest population in the EU. Rugby has a big future. Association Football needs to be put out of its misery.

By: jordan

jordan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:25:05 +0000

rugby is for people who wishthey was good at football but they cant thats what

By: ill-d

ill-d — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:21:46 +0000

haha but to argue with your friends, i would say calling NFL football football is like calling soccer handball lol

By: fifinho

fifinho — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:27:45 +0000

i also come from australia and have to put up with the nonsense of AFL which is what almost all australians call “football”.

just to make a point to ‘ill-d’ i have often used the claim of calling a sport where you use your hands FOOTball ridiculous however my friends argue with other sports such as tennis you don’t call it racketball or some nonsense like that. i could easily go on but i’m going to stop because i have homework to do lol

By: channo

channo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:33:27 +0000

hahaha, i think it doesn’t have to be rugby players. stupid questions & cynical comments could come from anyone who doesn’t have enough respect towards the world of sports.

remember those stupid questions that usually pops when we watched live matches with girls or children?

or maybe those rugby players just got hit in their head one too many times to respect other sports, i don’t know