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No harm done at that age but if he keeps doing that when they are older they will not know how to handle a defeat.

The key word there is "Coach"

The way the players go down,they must train for it because,no way is it normal behavior to carry on like that when you get a gentle tap on the shoulder/leg/arm etc etc.

The way they go down on the field when someone brushes past them,they should wear a pink strip and advertise Barbie dolls.

Im suprised that a dive dosent get a red card for "ungentlemanly conduct"

Did you know that the song "Diana" sung by Paul Anka was a song about Diana Dors.He admitted that he was in love with her.

When I went to school there was a boy called Johnny Bates and the teachers always used to call him "Master Bates"

I remember Portugal struggling to get a win ( I cant remember who against ) then they bought Eusebio on and he won the game for them.I remember Rattan ( Argentina captain ) getting sent off.The 1966 WC was a fantastic WC.

The point I was trying to make is that IMHO ( and this is MY opinion only ) is that kids seem to spend a LOT of time on their phones/video games.When I was growing up,we didnt have mobile phones but we did have video games,but we didnt spend that much time playing them. Actually carrots ( and all other veges ) are very,very unhealthy for you.A survey was done in the USA and it was discovered that out of 10,000 people that died, 9,999 had eaten veges in the week leading up to their death.

@lapal_fanEverything you've said, about kids not running around, people being lazier than ever, people parking their cars close to where they need to be - it all stems from a lack of time available to adults now....Lack of time,When I went to school we walked or rode our bikes,you go past a school now at 3pm and you have trouble getting past all the cars that are there to pick the kids up.You would think that getting a ride home every day would give them more time. *Kids would play outside loads, if they finished school, walked home where mom was, had their tea by 4.30 and gone to play until dark. I dont know about the UK but where I went to school we went from 9am to 3pm....So that gives you 90 minutes to get home by 4.30 *Me and my wife work until 5, then we go get our kids from after school club or nursery, we get home for 5.30, we feed them by typically 6.30, then it's bath time, which takes half hour, then we do homework, which can take anything from 15 mins to 1 hour. Oh look, now it's 7.30/8PM, bedtime. When I mentioned kids playing outside till 9pm.I was not talking about kids that had to be fed/bathed or put to bed. *Adults' time is squeezed now more than ever, if you want a decent life-style, you're going to have to pay for it somehow. I am retired now so I am not up with the play but last I heard,people still worked a 40hour weekl.As for paying for the lifestyle you want,do you mean that the lifestyle we wanted cost nothing ? *Nursery at LEAST £800 a month Before and after school club (in my experience), £200 a month Mortgage - ever increasing, but I'd say at LEAST £500 a month Car payments, insurances, blah blah blah. The wages I got PW for my first job was 4Pound 10 Shillings.So back then I probably would not be able to afford Nursery at 800 pound if it was for a year. Before and after school club....I played Rugby and cricket for the school But I ( along with many others ) played Rugby-league and Softball for clubs on a saturday my parents had to pay club fees and buy cleats and my softball gear. Our mortgage payments were lower...But then so were wages As for car payments...I was 13 before my parents could afford a car *People are lazy, they just don't have any **** time. So forgive me for driving 4 miles to get to an out of town shopping center, because 1 of those ate up the 150 small highstreets which had your local shops previously. So,you think we did all our shopping at the corner shop ? as for driving 4 miles ( for anything at all ) we never owned a car for a long time. *Moms and dads work now, there isn't anyone floating around doing your washing and ironing and making cherry pie - the world has moved on. Everything about work and career is geared to be more efficient. There are organisations who employ organisations at great cost to find inefficiency. Manual workers' vans have technology to say when, where, how fast they are going. Offices are 24/7 and we can work remotely now, so it doesn't really ever stop. The people doing our washing/ironing etc were servants ( In Calcutta EVERYONE had servents ) not just us.And here is something to ponder When we arrived in New Zealand my mum did not know how to cook ( because she had never done it before ) She did not know how to do the washing(because she had never done it before ) 90% of the things people take for granted we had never done for ourselves before,So not only did we have to do washing/cooking/cleaning/etc etc etc....wh had to learn how to do it first.If as you say Everything is geared to efficency now Then ,surley you should have more time than we had.Companys did not do effeciency studies back then. *I'd love to walk 200 yards to the local factory, press a mechanical button for 7.5 hours and walk 200 yards to my house where the wife (who doesn't work) has made my dinner and the kids are outside playing - but the world isn't like that for most people. I dont know about England but I will tell you what happens here in Perth.When we drive to the nearest large shopping mall we park at the fartherest edge of the car park.For 2 reasons 1-There are large trees there and we can ALWAYS park the car in the shade.There is always about 7/8 empty parking spaces.All the parking close to the mall is full and its only a 3 minute walk. 2- Whenever we go into Perth,the buss port and train station are underground.There are 28 stairs to walk up to street level ( I know because I have counted them ) A train will pull in and about 100 people will get off ... and,guess what,99 of them are riding up to street level on the esculator,I am the only one using the stairs.As for pushing a mechanical button for 7.5 hours ?! are you trying to say that we had automation before you did ? *You need to realise this because you're coming across as a very out of date person, which is unkind to say. If I am comming across as out of date then you are missing the point.The point I am trying to make is that people were more active then.As you say yourself,with the advancement of technology,Things MUST be easier now....Because of advancement in technology. *Lastly, your experience is YOUR experience, kids who lived in your era of childhood existed who didn't have your experience I realise that my experiance is my experiance alone but back then kids tended to have friends that were local ( Because we did not have cars/scooters and the buss service was not what it is today ) also ALL the kids in a neighbourhood would play/stick together ( its like English football in the days of K.Keegan,90% of the players lived local.Liverpool players were from Liverpool,Aston villa players were from Birmingham ) So ALL the local kids had the exact same experiance as I did.

My nephew and grandson do it

You have jogged my memory .I remember that now you mentioned it.They are not on the world stage a lot though,are they.

There is nothing wrong with playing video games......but playing video games for 16 hours a day ?!

Because people are more lazy now than they ever were.Just go down to any shopping mall or similar and see how many cars are parked as close as they can get to the venue compared to how many cars are parked further away.Also how many kids today get a lift to school in their parents car rather than walking/riding their bikes with their mates to school ?!

No,thats not why people left NZ in the 90s

I was 29 in 1973

There is also the fact that because people are less active now ill health must be escalating and drugs are a much bigger problem now than they ever were.

Does North Korea have any international teams ? I cant recall watching them play any sport on TV ?

March 1990 to be precise.I rather not get into a big discussion about why we left NZ.Suffice to say that if you look it up you will find that around 1990 a whole flood of people left NZ for Australia.Its a shame because NZ was a really great country to live in.

Your missing my point.Techonology,medicine,etc can advance another 100% but its not going to help those that are going to be couch potatoes,it wont help those that have to park within 10 yards of a shopping mall because 30/50 yards is too far to walk.Im sure you can see what I am getting at.

It depends on what you want/prefer.For me I prefered the old times when we were more active ( as I said playing in the streets till 9pm,riding pushbikes,etc,etc. ) I personally prefer those sort of activities rather than staring at a mobile phone all day.Im glad im not young now,I would get bored to tears.

Calcutta was bombed as well ( not as much as London ) but you are right NZ was a great place to live right up to about 1990.

Dont know about FIFA but Football Federation Australia are definately on a mission to destroy soccer in Australia.

Never mind the quality,feel the width.

Here in Perth I dont know anyone who drinks water from a tap,over here everyone buys bottled water.We put water from a tap into a filter jug and drink that.