The difference between rugby and soccer.... in pictures....

kenmc

Soccer - Beckham : "Mammy my head hurts and my foot hurts too"

Rugby - Hickie : "If I can get off, get my head stitched up, stop it from bleeding, change all my gear and find a scrum cap in the next ten minutes then they will let me back out to play."

davyjose

Nice post

kenmc

davyjose wrote:

Nice post

Thanks, but I can't claim the credit - it was passed along in the usual email banters. Thought it was worth 10 minutes out of my time to extract from the powerpoint presentation and put up here!

zAbbo

I know its only a bit of fun, but it would make more sense if that was actually Beckham, and if they both received a boot to the face.

Perhaps a better comparison would have been Ghaly (Spurs) a few weeks ago - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6OuXJyJ8D0&eurl=

He continued on playing.

davyjose

It's funny because it's true though. Look at the face on Hickie - imagine if that happened a soccer player - imagine the newspapers, and the guy it happened to would take about 4 months out. Hickie looks cool as f*ck!!

Martin Johnson said something i'll never forget: "Footballers spend 90 minutes pretending they're hurt, whereas Rugby players spend 80 minutes pretending they're not hurt."

Steffano2002

davyjose wrote:

Martin Johnson said something i'll never forget: "Footballers spend 90 minutes pretending they're hurt, whereas Rugby players spend 80 minutes pretending they're not hurt."

LOL So true! And i bet you not a single footie player had the b@lls to contest that!

Diamondmaker

In all fairness terry Butcher in an England (soccer) game ( way before the blood rule thingy ) played on for a long period with a bandage soked in blood and dripping down his gear. Ill see can I find the pic, e too looked a togh b&stard like Denis but you would not see a player these days being seen to be tough, not since Vinny Jones days and Ruddock anyway


http://images.google.ie/images?hl=en&q=terry+butcher+blood&btnG=Search+Images

here is a link..........

il gatto

In soccer it's just the occasional cut or bruise. In rugby it's a sure thing you'll have a few of each somewhere coming off the pitch. I still watch soccer and love the game too, but my patience with players lying on the ground, writhing around in agony after a small nudge and a gentle fall onto nice soft green turf, is all but gone. It's got to the stage where commentators usually say it was an obvious foul, or a definate free, when the replay clearly shows it was nothing of the sort.
The worst example I remember was Micheal Owen in the '98 World Cup, diving for a penalty against Argentina. It was perfectly clear that the player who "took him down" had no body part within a foot of him, but as they showed the replay countless times, the commentators just sat there and lied. How stupid do they think people are? If you're watching it and can see what happened, how can these pundits talk such sh1te.?

EdgarAllenPoo

Not really any relation to injuries but if you remember the episode of the simpsons where they show the difference between the Brazilian( I think) commentary and the US commentary you'll see why ( I think) rugby beats soccer hands down from an entertainment point of view, I used to play soccer when I was younger but I lost patience with it. Why spend ten minutes passing a ball around your own end of the pitch, why not just run and take your shot?

Here's the clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOOuSrwAwYU

davyjose

I love both games, but I think in recent years it is more often than not, you come across an exciting, engaging game of Rugby, whereas it's the reverse in Soccer - the odd United-Arsenal match maybe. But you do get dours affairs in Rugby: The recent Wasps-Worcester 3 All draw, I was recently quite vocal about. But it's much less common.

il gatto

Rugby is like warfare. You line up, use tactics, gain territory and break the defensive line. It tends to mean that the best team nearly always wins on the day. Who'll be the best team on the day is another thing. It's much more fulfilling.
Soccer can be infuriating. Your team can have 70% possesion, 20 shots on target, and still lose to a lucky deflection at the other end.
Another thing is that if you really dislike a player (I'm thinking Austin Healy or Brian Moore here) you get to see them hit really hard in rugby. There's nothing like seeing the opposition being handed their ar$e after taking a hit from Neil Best or Easterby:D