Do soccer fans have an average lower intelligence that other sports fans?
612731
Soccer is fun to play but boring to watch.
1022480
They are Ignorant, but sadly to say so is most of the world. They will chant at a African player, but when they play for their national team they love them.  Hypocrite's. Look at Spain the most Racist team in the FIFA WC 2006. They chant racist slurs in qualifying but when a black Brazilian player plays for Spain they love him.
107679
they might not be too smart
1108396
No, and its not because I'm not rooting for them. It's just that they appear unorganized on the field. They remain on their turf for a majority of the game and when someone takes the offense and takes the ball 3/4 of the way there, they've got no back-up to help them score the goal. I think they did well during the Italy game, just a case of bad luck and a quick handed referee.
1120384
dont listen to the negative posts some of the jerks say about US soccer.  its apparent that they have never excelled in any fielding sports or participated in any their whole lives. most especially my fellow americans who still live inside their caves and continue to be ignorant to the whole world. my heart broke and I was disheartened when the US lost but i however continue to support the US soccer federation because these athletes are not corrupted like our other athletes in other professional sports like basketball and footbal in the US.  i stick with my team wether they win or lose. i share the pains with them coz they gave their best considering the limited talent we really had to begin with. i am hopeful that we make some drastic changes in the near future not only to promote but also support our our competing teams.\n\nre: to thx1176...  there are up days and down days...im a fan of the sport and  lets hope FORZA does not pull a roberto baggio in the final...  it would be great to see them in the final...but what the hell are they still doing with del piero... italy has better talent chose from... and i think alexi lalas' carrot top is an eyesore myself.
677569
intelligent people without their head up their ^$$
818626
inconsistent is worse for the fans.  horrible teams sometimes have great fans, but an inconsistent team will draw rage.  especially if they were good at some point in the recent past.
632247
not really .. i think it's all down to the importance of the games they play as well ... look at wayne rooney and john terry in the Chelsea vs Man Utd game ... It all boils down to the player .. where does your duty to the club you are playing for and your duty playing for your country end and the other begin?
1176602
It isn't just Australian fans.  Soccer fans in general are extremely nationalist except for the United States team.  We just don't give a hoot.
520558
I never cease to be amazed how little some of the people answering questions know about football.\n\nTo wit, several included Ronaldinho in their answers to this question. Don't they know he is NOT a striker, and therefore less likely to have opportunities to score?
538077
Those guys that get frustrated over this have no patience and very little intelligence.  My g/f asks about what is going on in games all the time during the game.  "What teams are playing?"  "Why do they kick the ball to the other team?"  "What is a down?"  I love the fact that she wants to learn the game and learn about something I love.  I answer all her questions about the game when I can, it gives us more in common.
83077
in general, yes most people are stupid.
777039
The fault lies squarely at the door of the media.\nThe xenophobia they display is sickening.\nJohnny Foreigner - how dare he beat England!\nThe stupid English fans (and most of them are of under-average intelligence) believe this rubbish and get hurt when they don't win.\nBeing unable to express themselves in any other way, they turn to hatred of other countries.\nIt is not a majority of fans, it is most of them.\nwhen England played Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup, most of them were facing in the opposite direction from the pitch to shout racist abuse at the T&T fans.\nOnly when England finally scored (through a foul by Crouch) did they take an interest in the game.\nOther country's fans go to competitions in a party mood.\nEngland prepare for a war.\nEngland fans are predominantly scum and when the team exits competitions, every other country is relieved.\nThe 'world beating' players of England are then pilloried in the press and the fans look for scapegoats, usually finding a foreigner whose fault it was, courtesy of The Sun.\nThis year the England fans were labelled 'the best fans in the World'.\nBy whom?\nThe English!\nBut as soon as the process ends, it begins anew.\nThe idiots here saying England will win the World Cup in four years are already fooled into a false premise - that which states England have a divine right to win everything.\nThere is nothing wrong with getting behind your team and looking to games with hope.\nA seething hatred for the opposition is something else.\nEngland generally scrape through qualifying stages of World Cups and the fans learn nothing from this.\nThey still think they are world-beaters because The Sun told them so.\nIt would be amusing if it wasn't so pathetic.\nIt was also predictable that you would be accused of being Scottish.\nI might be and I can say for Scotland's size, we do well for a country our size.\nThere have been enough competitions in my lifetime Scotland has qualified for when England stayed at home but the people on here know nothing beyond yesterday's Sun.\nBut that's them looking for a foreigner to blame again.\nBut you know, it's all going to repeat itself and the idiot fans will be here in four years blaming some Argentinian/German/Swede or whoever and the likes of us can come here and point out the errors of their ways.\nIt is rather good sport, if a little easy, to catch little englanders on a baited hook.
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I think this is an absolutely ridiculous proposition you have made. The beautiful game that is soccer will be reduced to nothing more than a pathetic farce. Let me explain why.\n\nEven though the spectators might be paying to be substituted on, there is no guarantee that they are playing for the side they are on. Since the opposition coach is choosing who goes on, he could very well choose a fan who is on his side. This fan would simply need to score own goals.\n\nAlso, what about the OTHER spectators, the tens of thousands of others who paid to watch a decent game. Who would want to watch just about any other Tom, Dick or Harry playing??\n\nFinally, let's say the match is a World Cup match. Wouldn't it be ridiculous if the spectator who joins the match isn't of the same nationality as the team?\n\nThere are millions more reasons to reject your absurd idea, security issues being one of them, but I suppose discerning readers and like-minded soccer fans will know from a glance that you are a somewhat odd man.
826622
of course they are who doesnt like the best the best team in the continent! CHIVAS #1!!!!
1006750
American sport journalist and commentators play favorites rather than remain impartial. This is true especially with the game between USA and Italy.\n\nSport commentators kept saying that a verbal warning onto of another verbal warning should have been given to the American players and yet agreed in a joyful manner when an Italian player got a yellow and red card. \n\nAnother way of answering your question is to simply say that Americans tend to be arrogant when it comes to sports and just because it is a world event they feel the need to dominate in every sport that the world competes in. \n\nSoccer or as it really is called football is not our sport.. American football is and perhaps that is what Americans should stick to and not even bother with soccer; it simply is not our sport.
1095652
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I didn't notice an obvious bias. Like anyone else, refs make mistakes. They probably made equally bad calls against Ecuador, but when you are a big fan in the heat of the match, you don't notice those calls as much.\n\nGood luck to England the rest of the way!