Footballing `Slime`!

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[Trampship Man]

I fully appreciate that posted topics should really be based on a `maritime` theme.      So :----       If  the World Cup games were to be played on the deck of an aircraft carrier [a super carrier of course], then quite apart from all the lost balls, half of the players would probably also be lost overboard.   This because they would be slipping and sliding in the layer of `slime` that they themselves would have deposited upon the deck by their constant spitting all over the place.   Half of them would simply go skidding straight over the side.     I  find it pretty disgusting to think that when a player goes down  it`s more than likely that he will actually be rolling around in the `slime` of other players.      If my memories are true then I do not recollect any spitting to speak of  when I was a `kid` playing for my school, nor when later playing in local teams.    Neither can I recall any spitting to speak of when doing `forced marches` and cross country runs in the Army.   When attending games as a spectator  and in the days of black and white TV  I cannot really remember players spitting all over the place either.     Are my memories true ?  Tell me someone !    If my memories ARE correct, then this spitting `thing` must be a present day phenomenon ?     Perhaps there`s a physical training instructor or someone out there who could give me a logical explanation as to why footballers have to continually spit all over the place ?     [ Or, to maintain the `maritime legality` of this topic I should maybe amend that last bit to read
`give me logical justification for continuing to lose our carrier bourne players overboard ].
           STRICTLY SMALL TALK !   All answers considered, and jokes accepted !

[TJK]

HI

here are Top 10: Worst spitting incidents in football
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/5010546/Top-10-Worst-spitting-incidents-in-football.html

I do not think it's something wrong with you memory   maybe they was clever to hid it in the past

you have a good point and liked you post here

here they say it's a art form
http://www.football.co.uk/blogs/5003/253186.shtml
Tore

[McGherkin]

I hate spitting. Loathe it. The only things that should come out of a professional footballer's mouth are the answers to my physics homework. Unfortunately, I think it's a bit beyond them.

There is really no reason to spit, Like you said, you never did it whilst exercising, and I manage to go without it as well. Certainly, there are no spitoons in the gym.

Worse still, it is a habit which is appearing amongst people my age, and it's a shame, because it does nothing to help people's opinions of us.

[Trampship Man]

Well said McGherkin !

[McGherkin]

Thankyou. 

[Shipaddict]

I agree with McG, spitting is a disgusting habit.

I think footballers do it just to look "cool".

[clanky]

I think they do it to make sure that the ground is nice and soft for their next theatrical dive.

[IRI5HJ4CK]

What he said ^^