- Heather Mallick column in the Toronto Star

Complaining that soccer doesn’t have enough goals in it is like complaining there is only one winner in the Indy 500.

Soccer if about creating plays, making opportunities happen, taking chances. Soccer is, in essence a game of give and take.

Look at basketball in comparison. What a joke. 98-101 is not an unrealistic score. Every time someone reaches one end of the court or the other they score. It’s too easy. Most games are decided in the dying seconds. While exciting, why not just cut out the second half and save some time.

Soccer on the other hand is a game of strategy. Not just running up and down a court. American football is also a game of strategy but it sucks because there are too many stoppages in play. Soccer has better flow to it.

The argument that soccer needs more goals is only a reflection of American’s inability to appreciate the nuances and subtleties of the game. I suppose that is why American’s like big flashy spectacles like the Super Bowl.

Thanks,
Nick

1) Off-sides penalties. A rule that eliminates fast breaks and limits scoring. Eliminate it, or at least allow one player to go “off-sides” legally.
2) Make the goal wider.
3) Make the goal higher.

There. Done. As in complete no-brainer.

The object is to NEVER end a game with a penalty kick, as if everybody got bored in the end and just decided to have a bunch of kicks to get the damn drudge over with.

Goal size adjustments would have a trial period, over a few months during off season games, to set the average scoring by each team to about 8-9 goals per game.

This is such an obvious change that most Americans think the International “Football” Committee (or whoever sets soccer rules) are complete morons.

I even have a name for the new rules. Call them “American Rules”. It might even make the sport popular in the U.S.

You called it a “cube” because you don’t like it, and you would like it to stay the way it is because you do. I might call it modern, elegant, clean. In contrast I might say the turn of the century houses are old, musty, out-dated. But the problem is, that is all subjective.

The house was not slated for heritage status, they checked. Bussin is simply upset because her ego has been bruised. It is absurd to think that everyone in the Beach should call her personally and ask if it is okay for them to develop the property they purchased. She is a councilor, not a monarch.

The Teehans have done everything reasonable to ensure the house was available for the purposes they needed it and after that, too fucking bad. If it is so important to keep heritage buildings and the “character” of the neighborhood then all the neighbors should be clamoring to nominate their own houses for heritage status.

Until that happens they should just mind their own business…or better yet try to make their own homes wheelchair accessible.