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Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.sports
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:13:35 GMT
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I remember reading a history of soccer that attributed the popularity of the
game to the fact that it could be played on any patch of waste ground or
street without the risk of injury, unlike other sports which required the
use of a proper playing field. I think the fact that the ball is normally
low to the ground, and hence less likely to smash windows was another
consideration. Hence, the multitudes of poor working-class urban children
could play soccer, but could not play other sports.
If this analysis is correct, it might account for why soccer did not have
the same popularity in Australia and USA, where there might have been more
room available for playing a wider variety of sports compared with the
densely populated urban areas in many parts of Europe.
Kerry
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