Football
If any single player should feel aggrieved at another players actions during play, then they should be allowed to beat several shades of shit out of each other to resolve the issue without any major penalty. Much as they do in Ice Hockey.

I guarantee that it would put a stop to diving, intentional fouls and Ronaldo overnight but it would also be roughly a billion times more enjoyable.
( Muns, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:40, 6 replies)

That's what they used to do
when they were worth £400, and got paid 20 quid a week.

Trouble now is you're scraping your studs across the human equivalent of a fucking Van Gough.

If you're OK to pay 50 million quid to the club, and 100 grand a week to the player you just crippled, you're good. His insurers aren't, they're the ones who dictate all this civilised behaviour nonsense.
(username failed moderation, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:45, closed)

As long as it's done reasonably, then I don't see a problem.
Obviously in sports where it is allowed, such as the given example, the fights are literally fist only. I've never seen an example of someone using their skate to inflict damage and if they were to, they would quite rightly be gone from the sport permanantly. I'm sure that rules could be entered into the "beating the living fuck out of each other" rule that would ensure such safety.
( Muns, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:00, closed)

Maybe
if we got footballers to dress in hockey gear?

Oh, wait, the Americans already did that.
(username failed moderation, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:31, closed)

Or you could just watch rugby. B&I Lions tours in particular.

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Fri 23 Sep 2011, 19:40, closed)

The game you speak of exists
I believe it's called rugby.
(kickstandrich last had sex with your mum/sister/wife/daughter on, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:00, closed)

Not quite
They are after all, very different. In football, using the hands is disallowed except for the goalkeeper. In Rugby, it appears to be encouraged.

I do se similarities though, as I find it difficult to watch either sport with any level of enthusiasm.
( Muns, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 13:36, closed)