Comments on: Arsene Wenger says teams should get extra points for scoring goals – is he right? http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/2009/04/03/arsene-wenger-says-teams-should-get-extra-points-for-scoring-goals-is-he-right/ World's Best Football Gossip | Transfer Rumours | Premier League News | WAGs | Celebrity Footballers Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:21:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Rob http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/2009/04/03/arsene-wenger-says-teams-should-get-extra-points-for-scoring-goals-is-he-right/#comment-79693 Rob Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:27:16 +0000 http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2009/04/03/arsene-wenger-says-teams-should-get-extra-points-for-scoring-goals-is-he-right#comment-79693 I like Wenger's thinking... The beautiful game becomes rather less-than-beautiful when teams simply go into a defensive shell all game, (especially playing away) or else start time wasting as soon as they go 1-0 up. So GD would help with all that by giving teams the incentive to play attacking football for the full 90 minutes. I like Wenger’s thinking… The beautiful game becomes rather less-than-beautiful when teams simply go into a defensive shell all game, (especially playing away) or else start time wasting as soon as they go 1-0 up.

So GD would help with all that by giving teams the incentive to play attacking football for the full 90 minutes.

]]> By: Joey http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/2009/04/03/arsene-wenger-says-teams-should-get-extra-points-for-scoring-goals-is-he-right/#comment-79687 Joey Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:15 +0000 http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2009/04/03/arsene-wenger-says-teams-should-get-extra-points-for-scoring-goals-is-he-right#comment-79687 Two things: -Goal differential doesn't mean scoring a lot of goals. A team could completely dominate defensively and score a moderate amount of goals, but get more points for GD. -Changing the rules of the game just because you want it to be a different sport is why the NFL is straight up dumb. Sure, you can market to more people, but is that the point? Just too sell more tickets? Don't we all get offended by that usually? I guess I have a third: You do get credit for GD. It's the tie-breaker. Two things:

-Goal differential doesn’t mean scoring a lot of goals. A team could completely dominate defensively and score a moderate amount of goals, but get more points for GD.

-Changing the rules of the game just because you want it to be a different sport is why the NFL is straight up dumb. Sure, you can market to more people, but is that the point? Just too sell more tickets? Don’t we all get offended by that usually?

I guess I have a third: You do get credit for GD. It’s the tie-breaker.

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