Why football failed to catch on in certain countries

[DonFerrari]

NightlyPoe said:

DonFerrari said:

Seems like you don't understand soccer at all if you can't get the expectation of the game at every play.

Also one of the few sports where upsets are so common.

I'm aware you can watch a play develop.  You can do the same in hockey, which, as I said, might well be my personal favorite, and almost any sport where you wish to put an object into a goal past a keeper.  And in pretty much all the other ones, the pace is faster and there are more goals.

My point was that the outcome is binary.  Either a goal is score, or an effort is wasted.  Usually an effort is wasted and maybe there's a corner kick as a consolation prize.  So when a goal is scored, it's a near-sudden thing that doesn't have the same build-up as third and goal or getting a hit with runners in scoring position.  Yes, baseball has its instant offense with a homerun and football has pick sixes that come out of nowhere, but that potential is a spice, not the whole game.  There's a ratcheting up of the narrative that doesn't exist in soccer.

You are pretty much showing you have 0 understanding of soccer.