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Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub
Why allow games to end in a tie anyway? Wouldn't it be easier to play until someone scores? I'm not just being combative, I really want to know why football fans think it's ok to play to a draw.
Maybe it's an England thing where you'd rather tie than lose?
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Let's put it this way: in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, etc, you can substitute any number of players at any time without limit. In soccer (footie), you can't. You get 5 subs to make for the entire game and that's it. That's a lot of running for a group of players and the quality of play suffers if you have to play overtime after overtime in the first round of a tournament, let alone a season. Should the teams be allowed as many subs as they want? Not for me to say.
Tactics do come into play, though, when teams know there is a tie looming. Some teams are fine playing for the tie and they pull their players back. Teams in desperate need of a win need to push forward. It's a small but interesting element to the game.
Because of the substitutions rule, it wouldn't be much of a game if they played until one team fell over and the other team taps in a goal just because of fatigue.