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Originally Posted by kennyc
Or Rugby!  |
That's easy: Rugby is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen (as opposed to football*, aka soccer (bleeugh!!!) which is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans)
* this is the game where people move the ball around with their feet, as opposed to all those other games which, although called football, mainly entail carrying the thing in one's hands and/or throwing it around. Picking 3 examples at (not) random:
- American football, which entails throwing and hitting, and a little kicking
- Australian Rules football (I'm not convinced by the idea of the words 'Australian' and 'rules' in the same sentence, but whatever ...), which entails throwing and running, and a little kicking
- Erm... Rugby football - which entails throwing, hitting, running *and* kicking, and is therefore, I suppose, more sophisticated
For completeness, soccer (bleeugh!!) is almost all kicking (including, or in some cases, preferably, one's opponents)
I'm sure this has advanced the discussion immensely