Comments on: Violent Country of Origin = More Yellow Cards = More Violent in General?

By: Lugo

Lugo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:45:47 +0000

Awww, crap. I knew we’d be up on this junk. Can you please show me the EXCESSIVE amount of yellow cards that ColOmbian players in Europe get to try to support this silly argument?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:45:56 +0000

Very interesting post. Did the guy consider the racial, cultural or patriotic biases of the officials refereeing the games?

I studied psychology and this is the problem with so called “soft sciences” (Psychology, Sociology, etc.)… you might be able to find a correlation between two things but there are too many dynamic factors that keep us from actually empirically proving the connection between two variables.

Either way, very interesting study and thanks for bringing it to our attention.

By: From A Left Wing

From A Left Wing — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:39:23 +0000

Hi – I’ve been super into the sociology journal “Soccer and Society” which has less of these empirical equation-y things (a+b=GOAL), and more straight up history & really solid portraits of things like politically-defined women’s football teams – like a socialist women’s team in the UK. But that study, while entertaining as an idea, looks like a whole lotta bull. Probably got some crazy goverment grant.