03 February 2014

(Not So) Frequently Asked Questions

After trying (and failing) to write the first article for SoccerDog a couple of times. I decided I better explain what the site's all about.

But bear with me cause as we all know, first posts always suck.

"What's this site about?"

I wanted to start SoccerDog to explain soccer to those who are new to the game. I'm not great at analyzing strategy, but if you need to know how the amount of spots doled out for Champions League is decided I'm your man. So I figured I'd focus on explaining the weirder points of the game to the new fans, because I haven't seen a site dedicated to that yet, and it would have helped when I was learning about soccer.

I'm sure another question I'll get is "Why SoccerDog?"

 I would assume the hypothetical people are asking Why not FootballDog? The reason for this is SoccerDog sounds better, and that the British invented both terms, and only started complaining about soccer being used when the NFL started getting popular. On this blog World Football will be refered to as Soccer, and American Football will be called Gridiron. Once they learn to share maybe we'll start using the other terms.

"No, why SoccerDog?" 

Oh! Because we already had a great mascot, and it seemed like such a waste not to use the name.

We'll put up a proper FAQ page once real people start asking questions. But for now I hope you enjoy the blog, and hopefully I'll make this strange amazing game, a little easier to understand.