Should World Cup fans look elsewhere for proper sporting spectacle?
Post categories: World Cup 2010, World Cup Have Your Say
|07:39 UK time, Thursday, 24 June 2010
This is John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
They'll go onto a court later at Wimbledon to begin the third day of the longest tennis match in history.
It's 59 games all in the third set, after more than 10 hours play.
And, while the sports hacks around the world flick through their thesauruses to find word other than gladiatorial, epic and marathon, they might also be thinking whether such words could ever be used to describe the likes of Wayne Rooney ...
For, despite the odd spectacular goal now and the odd 7-0 thrashing, some people are persisting with the notion that this World Cup isn't anything special.
Folahan on our Facebook page says
I hate all those 1-0 wins & goalless draws
... although lots of others disagree, like Peter
What was boring about the Ghana - Germany war of attrition? Or the explosive bursts forward by Oz into the Serbia pernalty area? Are we watching the same World Cup?
Around a World Cup, the anti-football camp always write about why their sports are better - here's a Canadian who prefers ice hockey and here's an American professor's take on why his countrymen often aren't keen.
Have we seen any gladiators or any epics at this World Cup - or are we likely to? Is the passion and struggle in football really at the level of other sports? Is the World Cup really the spectacle a lot of people make it out to be?
