Fantastic breakdown of the structural gap. That professional foul analysis nails why Suarez's handball looked like straight cheating to Americans but logical game management elsewhere. I grew up watching both and the compensatory penalty thing in football versus soccer's severity-based system is such a key differenc. The set-piece hunting parallel to baseball killing the infield fly is chef's kiss level comparison.
Thank you sir! That's high praise. The piece was born in a recent series of bar conversations about sports that I just kept mulling over until I decided I had to write it down to get it out of my system.
Fantastic breakdown of the structural gap. That professional foul analysis nails why Suarez's handball looked like straight cheating to Americans but logical game management elsewhere. I grew up watching both and the compensatory penalty thing in football versus soccer's severity-based system is such a key differenc. The set-piece hunting parallel to baseball killing the infield fly is chef's kiss level comparison.
Thank you sir! That's high praise. The piece was born in a recent series of bar conversations about sports that I just kept mulling over until I decided I had to write it down to get it out of my system.