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Entries Tagged ‘violence’

Time For Skilled Play Or A Shift Towards the NHL?

Found via The Far Post Report, Paul Gardner at the New York Sun has a column up talking about how FIFA is allowing violence on the field to the detriment of skilled play. While I think his fixation on Zidane is a bit much (since he actually DID get ejected), I think there is something [...]

Equitable Playing Time – Reloaded

Wow. This puts the equitable playing time rules common in youth soccer leagues into a whole new perspective.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A father pulled a gun on a youth football coach because his son wasn’t getting enough playing time, police said.

Wayne Derkotch, 40, was arguing with the coach Sunday morning during a [...]