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Cricket v football (again)
By Will 4 years ago, at the end of November Add your comment below
Right. This sort of thing riles me no end, people slagging off cricket even in jest. We must teach the non-believers, especially those who think football is better than the great game. An example of such infidels can be seen here:
5 The Aussies are brilliant at cricket but pretty crap at football (despite overperforming at the World Cup). Let’s keep it that way, or us Brits will never, ever hear the end of it.
6 Ian Holloway.
7 You get giant-killing shocks in football, all the time. That doesn’t happen in cricket – the best team usually wins. Yawn, too predictable.
8 Compare the huge gulf in attendances between Premiership matches and county cricket matches. Thousands of people can’t be wrong… (can they?)
9 Cricket just isn’t funny enough. For every great goal, football offers up a comedy howler like this…
Quite simply this is all-out-war and you are my troops. Load your pens, arm your typing fingers and go forth and write. I’m sure we can come up with at least 20 valid reasons why football is the most dull, pointless game ever created and why cricket is one for the gods.
GO.
Tags: bloody-idiots, Cricket, football |
23 Responses to “Cricket v football (again)”
November 22nd, 2006 at 7.27 pm
November 22nd, 2006 at 8.20 pm
Overpaid, whine too much, no respect for the ref, fall over like having been shot at the merest touch, no salary cap, premier league uncompetitive, the ref said this to a player, a player said this to the ref etc type newspaper coverage, player almost crashing his rolls royce in disgust when agent on the phone tells him the club are only offering him 60k a week, not the 65k he asked for. Football player are mainly stupid, crass, tacky, bored now, bored of football.
November 22nd, 2006 at 8.32 pm
football is a joke..
a game fit for retards…
pointless kicking around of a ball
November 22nd, 2006 at 9.03 pm
For all football supporters’ knocking of the ’slow’ pace of the game, not even the slowest of county games can boast 90 minutes of play without score.
There was a wild debate not long ago as to a player’s right to swear on the football pitch. Great examples for younger viewers. Even dissent on a cricket pitch results in a fine.
November 22nd, 2006 at 9.17 pm
Where I come from we call it moronball
Nuff said
November 22nd, 2006 at 9.26 pm
1. Cricketers can play for 5 days straight, but those footballers are all finished before they even hit 2 hours. Fit and athletic? I hardly think so.
… and …
2. A football match might go for 90 minutes and end in a draw. A cricket match can last for a whole 5 days and still end up as a draw. The tension builds and builds for days on end (see Ashes ‘05) … you just don’t get that in a football match.
November 22nd, 2006 at 9.34 pm
There is very little happening in a game of football. There may be roughly 4 interesting things (goals) per match (if you are lucky), whereas in a test match there are about 1200 minor interesting things (runs) and 40 major interesting things (wickets).
November 23rd, 2006 at 9.08 am
1. How many full blown punch-ups on the footie field each week? How many in cricket?
2. Cricketers throw themselves around to take great catches, get up and play on. Footballers throw themselves on the ground for no obvious reason, then writhe there til the ref gives someone a yellow card, bring on the magic sponge and only then can they play on.
3. Who would you rather have dinner with? Who has the best tattoos? Who has the prettiest wife? Freddie or Beckham?
November 23rd, 2006 at 12.26 pm
In cricket, players are representing meaningful teams-countries, states or provinces, rather than completely arbitrary “Clubs” that soccer has.
On top of that, soccer’s only interesting if you see the last 10 minutes; cricket can grip you for hours (remember the Johannesburg match?) or even days.
Thirdly, most cricket fans respect the other teams when they play well (see the reception Flintoff constantly gets in Australia) whereas in soccer a “dissapointing” result often seems to result in rioting.
Finally, the variety of conditions and strategies that cricket offers around the world; lets face it, as far as sccoer’s concerned, grass is grass where ever you are.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8.56 pm
People are happy if someone scores one point in football. Whereas in cricket, we get the luxury of watching someone score 501 points.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8.57 pm
Books about the last football World Cup are more dull than books about the Ashes.
November 23rd, 2006 at 9.30 pm
I think too many people get caught up in this kind of public school attitude of Cricket is a Gentleman’s game and Football is for “yobbo’s”. Most people I know love both sports and frown upon Rugger as a trivial activate. I think one of the great things about last summers Ashes is that it felt cricket had lost some of its underbelly of pomp restoring back as the summer game of the English people. But don’t let the type of ugly juggernaut the likes Chelski bring to the footballing world stop you enjoying the beautiful game.
November 24th, 2006 at 1.16 pm
1. Just compare the number of books, magazines, and articles written about cricket and that about football – there’s no comparison at all.
2. Many cricketers write about the game or their experiences, etc. How many footballers have written anything of note?
3. Relating to point (2) above, it’s apparent that many cricketers do have a decent education while the footballers…
4. Anyone knows the origins of the following?
Cricket is a gentleman’s game played by gentlemen
Rugby is a ruffian’s game played by gentlemen
Football is a gentleman’s game played by ruffians (how true this is for both players & spectators!)
And, of course, for the retarded (explains why most of them can’t comprehend cricket) version across the Atlantic, American football is a ruffian’s game played by ruffians!
Cheers!
November 25th, 2006 at 2.19 pm
Kong Howe. So your argument that Cricket is better than football is based purly on the fact that people how follow cricket are generally more itelligent? That’s abit narrow minded really.
November 26th, 2006 at 6.32 am
Relax Dave, it’s all in good fun. There is probably some correlation between the demographics of the followers of both sports. I certainly enjoy both soccer and cricket but I find that cricket makes you think a little more than most other sports simply from its inherent complexities.
How many humourous anecdotes have you read or heard of in football compared to cricket? Cricket’s complexities do tend to create more opportunities.
Where are the Neville Carduses of football?
Where are the Henry Blofelds, Brian Johnstons, of football?
If you’re thinking of people like Michael Parkinson, I think you’ll find that most people associate him with cricket rather than soccer.
I did not state that cricket is better game than football because of the players’ or followers’ intelligence – merely that cricket’s intricacies tend to give rise to more thought and hence its literature. That was your conclusion, not mine.
Go check out the facts – go to any library, check out amazon.com and get a listing of publications of the 2 sports.
Go to the respective sports websites and check out players’ backgrounds.
There are yobs in most sports. Serious followers of both games have expressed frustration over attending matches due to the yobs’ behaviour. How does one explain sportmanship to kids when crowd behaviour is getting worse in many games these days? Watch crowd behaviour in baseball and American football, it seems that bad behaviour is part of the entertainment and very much a reflection of American culture.
At the opposite end of the social spectrum is the “upper class” where snobbery is possibly worse! Cricket has always had followers from all walks of life but they have usually been better behaved.
One shudders what the football hooligans would do if soccer matches last all day instead of 90 minutes!
I wonder how many of the people in the crowds (cricketing and soccer alike) really appreciates the game’s finer points and are they really more interested in the odds and their bets.
As for the gentlemen/ruffians thing, I can’t remember the source (does anyone know it?), it’s just a spoof on the various sports.
Anyway, I thought that this blog has some interesting and funny contributions meant for light-hearted banter – and it is.
Cheers!
November 27th, 2006 at 3.15 am
Now now, this sounds a bit like the Beatles vs the Stones – who’s to say you can’t love both?
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March 14th, 2007 at 10.57 am
You cannot compare cricket with football. Cricket is a gentalmens game. It has no palce for _ _ _ _ _ _
. Seening cricket is great fun you dont no what happens. In cricket many things captains should take in like Pitch condition(HELPS BATSMAN OR BOWLERS) and pitch types are different in different countries. Weather condition, bowling power , batting power.
FOR FOOTBALL GASS IS GRASS———— TOTALLY SCUKS.
March 14th, 2007 at 10.58 am
You cannot compare cricket with football. Cricket is a gentalmens game. It has no palce for _ _ _ _ _ _
. Seening cricket is great fun you dont no what happens. In cricket many things captains should take in like Pitch condition(HELPS BATSMAN OR BOWLERS) and pitch types are different in different countries. Weather condition, bowling power , batting power.
FOR FOOTBALL GASS IS GRASS———— TOTALLY SUCKS.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10.22 pm
I like both sports.
March 23rd, 2008 at 6.24 pm
There are more university professors that watch football than any other sport.
Just because football is popular and brings in the odd dimwit is not a reason to aim cheap shots at football.
In truth most cricketers wanted to be footballers and just were not good enough, same with rugger.
Rugby union guys are thugs, a thugs sport played by thugs, who fight in nightlclubs when they are not stamping or eye gauging on the field.
Footballers like beckham could teach flintoff, ciprinani and vickery a thing or two about being professional and respecting their lifestyle.
So football is numbe rone but I hope england win at cricket before all our players leave for india and cricket finally dies.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7.52 pm
footy players are cry babies, so little skill required to kick a ball
you need too much skill to play cricket, be it a good one or bad, you need it, more than in football
cricket wins anyday!
but sad thing is i live in kenya and here cricket is seen as a rich mans sport or a european/asian sport, but more of a rich man sport!
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