John R Davis
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Not the place to explain why you are misinterpreting my point.
I do not think it matters that they're UK or from anywhere else, football and sport overall sees many such and worse scandals...
The Italian League had the Calciopoli scandal (2006), the Germans had their Bundesliga scandal (2005) and let's not get into the 2002 World Cup in South Korea. Greed is not endemic to the Premier League or the football world. The historic match-fixing scandals in the cricket world are well documented and practically all the major nations' players have been implicated at some point (Australia, South Africa, India ...etc)
It is quite popular amongst the Common Wealth nations, and USA does have a team - despite their small following.I probably know less about Cricket than @Morrus knows about Football. I admit, I've never followed Cricket at all, and don't even know the rules for it.
I know it's MASSIVELY big in India, and I think it has a decent following in Australia. It has some popularity in Great Britain in some areas, and is practically non-existent in the US (or perhaps it's wildly popular and I just don't know the crowds that love it there).
Other than that, and the idea that I've heard that some games last for days...I don't know much...
Oh, and that they have this ball they try to hit with a club and then run around like a Bat caught in an attic...or something like that.
It used to be a social class thing. Football was for the working classes, cricket was for gentlemen.
But yes, it’s pretty similar to baseball/rounders: someone chucks a ball, someone hits it, there is running around and points are scored.
My partner is a big cricket fan. My dad followed football. I was forced to play rugby at school, and hate all sport.
Yeah, I’m only large round the middle!My two nephews played Rugby. Quite the sport. They were pretty large kids, so it fit them well.
Well its the All Blacks, can you blame them.Rugby, cricket football is any class here.
Footballers kinda get laughed at as rugby is the main game.