>>>>World Cup Football == watching over-paid prima donnas take dives and fake injuries.
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>>>>We should send all the world's sick and ailing to football stadiums because all injuries, no matter how severe, are apparently cured within minutes of the referee's play-on whistle. It's better than Lourdes.
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>>>I agree; the antics of the soccer players are ugly (rolling on the pitch as if someone just hit them with a hammer :).
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>>>The only team (and fans), IMO, that has class is Japan.
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>>I saw that the Japanese fans tidy the stadium after the game and their squad left their changing room spotless. The cleaners said there was nothing to do. On the football side I thought they looked good, very quick and a shame they lost to Belgium.
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>I also wanted Japan to win against Belgium. I think they lost because they played with class what I call the "old style" football. Other teams play very physical and ugly football; stopping the opponent at all cost: kicking, pushing and complaining. And how the Japanese fans and the players cleaned after themselves (culture!) will hopefully become a model of behavior.

From an on-line news article:

"France’s Kylian Mbappe plays club soccer with Neymar at Paris St. Germain. Perhaps Neymar has been teaching him a thing or two about selling a foul."

Too bad referee didn't give him a red flag.