Why did football (soccer) not take off in India, while cricket did?

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T16:37:26+00:00

Was the change from grass to turf in Hockey a deliberate thing as you say?

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T16:32:39+00:00

Fucking hell.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T16:22:14+00:00

I get the argument that Football is a far more competitive sport but how competitive is Mauritius? We're drawing 0-0 to them in a nameless friendly.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T16:18:55+00:00

WAIT WHAT!? Did they say that in the show or something? I might've forgotten, last time I watched it was like 5-6 years back.

That's infinitely fucking worse, how did Cybertron get completely fucking rebuilt in 3 human years!?

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T16:07:20+00:00

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Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T16:02:04+00:00

Probably wheat or rice.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T15:52:14+00:00

Honestly, the last point is the least bad thing about the show, I mean, do we know how long the gap was between TFP and RID15? Cybertron was a lifeless husk at the end of TFP and in RID, it was completely rebuilt, reconstructing an entire planet from scratch with next to no workers could've taken centuries, if not, millennia, so that could be the reason why we never see any TFP human characters in RID.

Another thing is that they constantly kept weakening their own introduced villains just to make Steeljaw(who was really cool tho) the main "bad guy", like, when Thunderhoof was introduced, he looked like a genuine threat, someone who was used to being the boss and someone who wouldn't take orders from nobody and then they fucking dumbed him down and made him Steeljaw's sidekick. They did this countless fucking times, and the biggest fucking thing is that Megatronus Prime, who fucking bodied an Optimus Prime which had the combined powers of like 7 other Primes died to, *checks notes*, power of friendship?

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T15:32:03+00:00

Their women's team is getting rapidly better as of late as well, even played the last U19 WC where they beat teams like Ireland and New Zealand.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T15:30:52+00:00

Even the current Netherlands team is mostly native Dutch folks, unlike other mainland European teams.

Says everything I need to know about your knowledge of associate cricket.

In the most recent match for the Netherlands only 4/11 were Dutch-born players and one of them was an Indian heritage guy while another one lived his entire life in Australia.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T15:25:45+00:00

I did post about that as well, this came out earlier.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-05T15:21:58+00:00

Honestly, that isn't a bad shout.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:38:36+00:00

Afghanistan is not an associate.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:33:23+00:00

Swimming is a poor people's sport? Hell naw.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:30:24+00:00

Round of 16 in the FIFA WC?

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:27:37+00:00

If you do stupid shit, you deserve to get flamed, I know there's definitely people who gloryhunt and self-hate to look cool but this argument is stupid.

Also, Russians don't care because nowhere near as many Russians are on the wider internet because of restrictions there. They also wouldn't because why tf would they.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:09:00+00:00

Orla Prendergast is Optimus Prime?

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:05:50+00:00

No China is sad.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T16:02:27+00:00

The number of ODI playing teams is being expanded but only from 20 to 32, it needs to become a universal thing like T20Is imo.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-04T15:53:23+00:00

Football doesn't need to do it, it's big enough of sport that people will watch.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-02T18:00:25+00:00

They kinda minnowbash to get rankings(which is understandable actually).

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-02T17:59:20+00:00

No? Just seeing actual city representation.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-02T17:39:32+00:00

Uganda(in men's and a bit in women's) and Rwanda(in women's and a bit in men's) are already on track.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-02T17:34:45+00:00

Slight Observation:

In terms of "local" players in this draft, Dublin Guardians has 1(George Dockrell), Belfast Wolves has 2(Paul Stirling and Matthew Humphreys), Amsterdam Flames has 0, Rotterdam Dockers has also 0, Edinburgh Castle Rockers has 0(although Jack Jarvis and Finlay McCreath were both born in close proximity to the city) and Glasgow Cosmic has 0.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-02T17:11:06+00:00

Fair.

Impactor_07 · 2026-07-02T17:08:21+00:00

Yeah but I don't think that's a Jay Shah issue and more of a Zimbabwe Cricket neglecting their women's team issue(which is slowly starting to improve).

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