Wait, overtime isn't sudden death? What the hell?
As if the constant staging and flopping isn't enough to make me put a pistol to my head, I have to watch these ridiculous games and it's flaming rules. Listen people, when a team scores in overtime, GAME OVER!!! What is with this, "oh, lets see if the other team can respond" shit?
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I agree. Let's make basketball overtime sudden death. Let's make College Football OT sudden death. Let's have extra innings be the first team to score period. If the visitors score first, too bad. Fuck this "bottom of the inning" crap.
Non-sudden death was reintroduced at EURO 2004, having been absent since 1994, when "Golden Goal" was introduced. Golden Goal did not have the anticipated effect of increasing attacking football as most teams would sit back and defend, rather than leave themselves vulnerable to counterattack. Almost all leagues now use two 15-minute OTs to decide ties in cup (knockout) play now.
I agree with Pat. Sports like hockey and soccer call for sudden death. To compare it to baseball and football (and I think most if not all of us on YCS agree that the NFL should adopt the college overtime system) is ridiculous because in those sports there is a designated offense and defense. It's only fair that each team get the equal amount of offensive possessions. A more fair comparision would be if baseball added an additional three overtime innings, which of course would be ridiculous.
It's equally ridiculous to compare basketball since there is considerably more scoring in basketball than in soccer. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'd guess somewhere around half of basketball possessions result in a score. The number of games decided by a player getting fouled on a shot would be unwatchable.
Of the big American sports, the most comparable to soccer is hockey (which is really more of a Canadian/Russian sport). Sudden death works for hockey, and it only makes sense (in an American's mind) that soccer would work the same way.
...yet another example of soccer not pandering to American taste in sports, and another reason that Americans will never take a real interest in the sport.
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