Three years ago I would have defended football (soccer) until I was blue in the face but now I can't. It's become a boring (and expensive) game to watch, killed by coaches who now adopt a negative approach to games purely because they HAVE to win the next game or the fickle fans and owners call for their heads.
Me personally...I ditched football (soccer) for rugby league a year ago. It's hugely entertaining, the atmosphere at games has to be experienced to be believed, it's a working class sport therefore extremely affordable and the players are the some of the toughest bastards you'll ever come across. Unfortunately it's only popular in Australia, a very small pocket of the UK and a few regions in France and will never catch on in any other parts of the world.
I infrequently watch the NFL on tv over here and find it very entertaining but I think I'm in the minority...I just think football (soccer) isn't popular in America purely down to culture and how people are brought up.
America's national games are and always will be football and baseball, same as our national game will always be football (soccer), same as the Aussies will always be cricket and so on and so forth.
As a footnote, I have and always will think that cricket is the most boring, pointless game known to man. I'd rather take a dump in my own face than sit through 5 days of a game that may or may not end up in a draw.
