[Closed] Why is wendyball so popular?

I was quite interested as apparently plenty of people here prefer football to cycling

As for wendyball, well how else would you define a sport where player are made of sugar and each time they get push a little too hard they fell on the floor and cry because they are hurt

And did I read that right; you've reported crikey for calling you a cheeky monkey ? (Mort de Lollage)

Come on, it's hardly unique to footballers, is it? Most sports where the other side gets penalised for hurting you give the players an potentially massive financial incentive to play up.

The only reason cyclists don't do it is because if they crash and retire the race goes on without them.

And did I read that right; you've reported crikey for calling you a cheeky monkey ? (Mort de Lollage)

That's actually the best thing about this thread by a long way 😀

Well crikey did insult me, yeap cheeky monkey doesn't translate THAT well in French. And I was really interested, as I have seen plenty of football thread around here. Anyway looks like I will never understand it.

It's all about tribalism. And if you are not a tribe member - you're out, you won't ever get it.

Just subscribe to cycling weekly instead.

Are you [i] actually trying[/i] to understand it.

Or just wanting to let people know that you don't.

cheeky monkey doesn't translate THAT well in French.

It's gay talk.

You're not homophobic are you ?

Does that include the team sprint and pursuit?

Yup.

I prefer supporting my football team to watching cycling. I probably enjoy a kick-around as much as cycling myself (it's a long time since I played proper (Sunday League) football but I probably enjoyed that more than cycling.

I couldn't give a chuff if someone else thinks it funny to call it 'Wendyball' either.

I don't hate Wendyball it's a fab game. i hate the fans of Wendyball.
If you loose the match - the ref was against you,
if the other team core the most remarkable goal - they cheated.
If you loose you benefit it's - the fault of foreigners.
I hate people who only see one view, theirs their teams and nothing else. There are other sports, but they are not interested just like everything else.

coffeeking - Member
Does that include the team sprint and pursuit?
Yup.
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I don't hate Wendyball it's a fab game. i hate the fans of Wendyball.

Post of win.

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Lol!

Or the TdF?

Doesnt particularly interest me. I generally like sports where the person winning does so on their own. I hate playing sports where my success is helped or hindered by other's contribution and where other's success is helped or hindered by my contribution. If I win, I like to win alone. If I lose, I like to know only I am responsible for the failure.

in all honesty there are few things you can just "do" in terms of sport.

Running - Dull as....
Handball - only 34 people in the UK actually know what it is
Football - From an early age we kicked a "ball" round, tennis ball, football, apple anything that worked. As above with 3 people you have something going on. With 10 you have a full game. I've only played 11 aside a handful of times in my life.
Rugby - unless you want to throw and catch all day not much "Kickabout" potential.

Look at the american thing - throwing a baseball at each other - dull

Basketball is probably the closest thing as you only need a hope and 2 can play.
Yes there is some indoctrination going on but it's also because it works.

For all it's commercial downside at least it's not in the Franchise model (if you exclude the US). Teams move due to merit (and financial backing) though if you fail you fail.

These threads are fun somedays, all the effort people put into hating Football could be better spent doing something useful. (on that note best go and find everyone who went off to "Avoid" the olympics)

So you hate the fans?
All of them?

Such lazy stereotyping would be laughed (or frowned) off STW if it were applied to any other group.
Always the same people too.
Ah well, prejudice will out, it appears.

In terms of global popularity football rules ! It's truly the worlds national sport. Why, honestly it doesn't matter. If you don't like football do or watch whatever, me I ride my bike.

well how else would you define a sport where player are made of sugar and each time they [s]get[/s] push a little too hard they fell on the floor and cry because they are hurt.

to answer the OP..

I ride a bike almost every day and pretty much always have a bike nearby ready for me to just get on and ride at will.
I also kick a football every day and pretty much always have a football nearby ready or me to just play with at will.
there's a football in my car at all times (I wish a bike was also as convenient to stash)

Playing with a football gives me a lot of the same type of enjoyment/freedom/sanity riding bikes does.

I also really enjoy watching the odd game (but wouldn't go anywhere near a big match anymore) and appreciate the massive amount of skill, talent and time the best players have put into their sport (much the same as watching the best bike riders) but I don't support any team (even my national team). I honestly can't really be arsed with supporters.. any big Football club is just massive business to me and I feel the supporters are taken for mugs believing they are somehow part of "their team" when they are simply consumers.

oh.. and lol at the noobs taking offence to Juan using the term "wendyball"

Pity this place has become so PC it's no longer on the swear filter 🙁

100!

I think cheeky monkey could be classed as much more like a term of affection than an insult. Whatever, you seem to have got away with a whole thread of deliberate trollage, and then report me?

So you accuse footballers of being made of sugar and then cry when you get called a cheeky monkey?
That's awesome.

Well that's a persuasive argument.

Morning everyone.

[b]Classic STW thread[/b]

In 3 short pages we've had it all ... blinkered ignorance through blind intorance to reporting and of course some casual Christain bashing along the way.

I salute you all.... it's brought a ray of sunshine into my "holiday" with the inlaws.

Football, as a game, is brilliant.

It's simple, accessible, sociable, indoor, outdoor, can be played with however many people you've got at the time, doesn't need special equipment etc.

Unfortunately (in my opinion), the professional game (that's rammed down our throats by the media for 10 months every year) is all taken waaaayyyyyyy too seriously.

It's only a game after all.

Normally I would also say that Football's popular as it gives casual racists somewhere to gather and indulge in their hobby on a Saturday afternoon.

But that's just

blinkered ignorance

😀

It would be wrong as well. 😀

Footy is far more racially inclusive than rugby, by percentage of fans and players.

Well that's a persuasive argument.

I think that most people on here can tell who the idiots are without their posts being deleted, it's getting a little draconian round here, and for that reason, i'm off.

If I win, I like to win alone. If I lose, I like to know only I am responsible for the failure.

Then you miss out on the joy of having achieved something together, as a team. Funny world you live in, but as you wish 🙂

it's getting a little draconian round here

Deleting racist posts is hardly "Draconian". Sensible, I'd say.

Will you be dragging yourself out of the modz' arse anytime soon flash?

Nah, it's too warm and cosy! 🙂

I think the difference is participation...

When people ask me what sports I like I say surfing, cycling, snowboarding, running...then they look at me strangely. The thing is though, that i actively participate in all of those sports some of them on a daily basis (though not snowboarding, unfortunately). Invariably, they like football, football and err....football.

Not to play though as they never do. Maybe they played it at school, perhaps they kick the ball about on the beach once each year, but they have no interest in playing the game. So, to all intents what they should have asked me was 'What do you like watching on the TV?'.

Not to play though as they never do. Maybe they played it at school, perhaps they kick the ball about on the beach once each year, but they have no interest in playing the game

This quote keeps coming up again and again. I find it a bit strange almost all of mates and their mates regularly play footy.

For most of my 20's I played 2/3 times a week, currently I only play once a week mind. Work/Being Ill/MTBing/DIY/minor injuries seem to be stopping me play more often.

For my mates 30th we did a five aside tournament had 20 of his mates in 4 teams of 5. No problem getting the numbers. We also occasionally do 11 a side friendly got one get Monday in fact.

One thing I have to say if I've had alot more injuries playing footy than MTBing so that might be one reason why people cant play footy so regularly.

My 8 y/o loves playing rugby, it's his first game on Sunday. Loves riding his bikes, skateboard, roller boots etc. Will even have a bash at racket sports. Shows no real interest in football though apart from to say he supports Liverpool although this is just a fitting thing as most of his mates do. I don't.

When people ask me what sports I like I say surfing, cycling, snowboarding, running...then they look at me strangely

Do they really ?? Or is that just you trying to make a point.

The reason I ask is because I have answered with the same list many times, and I've never had anyone look at me strangely.

Normally people are interested, and ask about surfing (where do you go, is it hard to learn, etc etc)

Never had the experience you claim to have.

...then they look at me strangely

Where you dressed in your gimp outfit at the time?

my 20 month old son loves his football its a 99p plastic one

he kicks it, throws it, dives on it

dunno why he likes it so much he just does
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If he falls does he cry because he's been "hurt" ?

He looks like the type that would.

Footy is far more racially inclusive than rugby, by percentage of fans and players.

Which would seem to support the idea that racists like going - after all there's hardly much fun in going to an event where there's nobody to abuse.

Rugby is not racially inclusive because in England and Scotland it's mostly a middle/upper class game.

Of course, there are plenty of immigrants of different races in Wales...

might be worth a listen.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lt2vj/Game_Changer_20_Years_of_the_Premier_League/

football is popular so that humans can stay in touch with their primal instincts for tribalism and war..

and to try to prove to your mates that you don't really masturbate over the fantasy of Eamonn Holmes, dressed in a bikini, bringing you breakfast in bed..

When people ask me what sports I like I say

Maybe this is some sort of class or culture difference between you and me, I don't know. But I don't think I've ever been asked "what sports I like" in any sort of meeting-new-people type scenario, ever.

No-one ever says that, they always ask "which team do you support?" The default assumption some people make is that you're male therefore into football; asking whether I liked football would be like saying "so, do you like food?"

Sometimes I get, "did you see the game last night?" I might reply "what game?" or if I'm feeling more generous, "I don't follow football, sorry." However I form a reply, I've thus far failed to work out a reliable method of avoiding then being talked at for the next ten minutes about something they're obviously passionate about but I've just explained I have no interest in.

I'm thinking next time I'm just going to wax lyrical about the relative merits of Nvidia GPUs over comparative AMD offerings.

Playing it is ok, but watching it is massively dull. I really have never understood why it drives people so mental. At least with Rugby there are interesting variations in play and tactics even if no one is actually scoring. Add in the chance of a good punch up and it all gets even better.

ernie_lynch - Member

If he falls does he cry because he's been "hurt" ?

He looks like the type that would.

he cries if he knows someone is watching but strangely once youve brushed the pretend dirt off his hands hes fine again?

No-one ever says that, they always ask "which team do you support?" The default assumption some people make is that you're male therefore into football; asking whether I liked football would be like saying "so, do you like food?"

I've started answering "Sky" to the team question, that usually throws them for a bit 🙂

he cries if he knows someone is watching but strangely once youve brushed the pretend dirt off his hands hes fine again?

Sounds like a typical footballer to me 😐

I've started answering "Sky" to the team question, that usually throws them for a bit

Mind if I borrow that? 🙂

I'm thinking next time I'm just going to wax lyrical about the relative merits of Nvidia GPUs over comparative AMD offerings.

Lets be honest watching mountain bike racing is about as exciting as watching paint dry... dull, dull, dull.

I love cycling but give me a choice between football and cycling and its the beautiful game all the way.

Of course the big question is why are some people so insecure that they feel the need to go on the internet and question people who like football......

Mind if I borrow that?

Be my guest!

(And here's hoping Froome beats Contador in the Vuelta!)

My plans tonight, (as wife and kids away) quick 2hr mtb ride after work, then pizza beer and football on the telly. An evening in heaven.

You've got yourself an argument. Fancy a shouting match pairing off OpenCL and CUDA in a pub? I can feel myself seething with [s]tribal[/s] ATI rage...

Yunki hit the nail on the head!

I've started answering "Sky" to the team question, that usually throws them for a bit

Not as much as when I tell folk I support AG2R because of their brown shorts.

Because more people like it than don't like it.