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What kind of candy ass sport decides its championship at the end of the regular season?
So...for whatever reason, I was interested in following this EPL race today. Two teams have a chance to win the title. Man City needs to win OR tie and ManU lose or tie OR lose and Manu lose (ignoring some ridiculous goal differential scenarios). Then, I see that City is down one goal and ManU up a goal. What was once a big chance for Man City (like 90%) looked bleak (we're talking almost infinitesimal). Stoppage time happens, and City scores TWO goals!
what the hell
Last edited by Joust Williams; 13 May 2012 at 12:04 PM.
What kind of candy ass sport decides its championship at the end of the regular season?
It makes a lot more sense than throwing out the previous 80-something games as if they were meaningless then deciding your entire season with only a few games against three or four teams.
Not even sort of.
The top teams in various Euro leagues move on to the Champions League. So that's the end goal.
I guess.
I dunno. Think of this as the Rays coming back from an ungodly amount against the Yankees to steal Boston's playoff spot last year.
That makes more sense, except then yesterday didn't mean shit, and England completely overreacted. I guess it's like when fans of shit teams think it's awesome to win their division.Originally Posted by Joust Williams
I think I messed that up. Basically, soccer makes no sense. What I said was true but the analogy is probably not true.
They play a true round robin (2 games a piece, so there's your 38 games for 20 teams). So there is kind of a real winner. But THEN there is the super bonus tournament with teams from all over Europe. They play that during the next season (while also playing in the lower league). So it'd be like if the Packers were playing Germany this coming year because they won the regular season NFL title. All the while playing in the NFL.
So because of the schedule I think there is still a big deal about winning the EPL. Also, soccer is weird.
Or at least Europe is weird. I wonder if they do nonsense like that in Latin America.
You should have acted
They do. Soccer is only weird because it's the most popular game on the planet and they haven't figured out a way to make an international super league yet. So you have an English Champion, a German Champion, etc etc. Those champs all go on to play in the European Champions League. There is a Latin American version of it.
You just don't understand it because all of the sports you choose to follow exist in one or at most two countries. But try explaining NCAA Football, including all of the divisions and leagues and it's championship formula to a Soccer fan. They might grasp it faster than someone who has never followed either.
NCAA Football is a disaster too, though it appears to be getting better!
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