At the risk of further upsetting Mr. Goon, who adores soccer (probably because he came up in the Soviet Union where there was little else to do), I couldn’t ignore this piece about soccer fanatics (the origin, BTW, of the contraction “fan”) using laser pointers to injure goalies.
Nor this incisive comment by Estragon about America’s decline with the (so far, thankfully, miniscule) rise here of soccer popularity:
“Whereas the youth of America once came of age in the bleachers trying to second-guess pitchers and managers and learning real strategy, nowadays we seek to emulate the Eurotrash, who crowd into the standing room areas of soccer stadiums and urinate on each other’s legs to avoid missing a minute of the ‘action.'”
Heck, soccer players have been gunned down for “poor play,”—how could anyone tell good play from poor in such a boring, sleep-inducing game?
Via Instapundit.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Heh heh. To me it only means that green lasers will appear soon in American football (a wrongest name possible for a game where players get to handle the strange ball). Then we shall see…
Maybe, but I doubt it. The action is much faster than in soccer. There’s very little time for such hooliganism. And ticket prices are high enough without getting banned.