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Poor old television companies, arrange all their schedules to cover the world cup matches including shoving regular programmes aside . Then England get dumped out without making it past the qualifying stage and nobody wants to watch their output anymore. C'est la vie

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One of the great thing about Australia is that you know your team is not going to get past the first round so the misery is soon over for both soccer fans and detracters alike.

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I was wondering, not that I do wonder much about football, except why? Anyway, I wondered if the footballers in other countries get paid extortionate amounts like ours?

I did tell one of my neighbours that his flags looked a bit droopy yesterday...

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Here in North America, your football is not as popular, so there's no big money paid out. So far!
But there is for other sports - American football, ice hockey, basketball, and baseball.

I'm curious, is soccer an acceptable word in Britain?

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Yes, but as we haven't had any other "football", although we do have some American Football now, we just call it football, 'cos we kick it with our feet!

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Perfectly logical!

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Jackie's right, hockey players in NA get paid millions of dollars & sometimes have 3-5 year contracts. They do great the 1st year, slide the rest of the time, still getting paid or perhaps traded, same story all over again. Idiots still pay money to see the Toronto Maple Leafs & they certainly are not the glory team they were decades ago. Toronto must have the biggest diehard fans ever! The owners, advertisers, players are rich as hell but don't deliver to the fans that pay their wages, in a sense.

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Our footie is either rugby league or Aussie rules depending on where you live. Soccer is very much a minor spectator sport though a lot play it at a local level (my daughter does for example) but I think netball and rugby union have bigger followings.

Until recently male soccer was only shown on the foreign language channel SBS who's audience would be hard pressed to fill a phone box though the ABC did show women's soccer.

Footie players do earn good salaries but the sport put a cap on payments per club to stop rich clubs buying all the best and leading to a one sided contest.

As I have said elsewhere sport in general leaves me cold i just follow it as a news item so I can discuss it with my kids.