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Does England have a cricket/soccer thing like America does with baseball/(American) football where the older one is really optimized for followability on radio broadcasts but the newer one works better with TV allowing home viewers to follow an entire multi-player play at once?
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cymae-mesa said: Yeah cricket is still primarily something you listen to.
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jamie-b-good said: That does seem to be the case- I only have second/third hand anecdotes to go on but from what I gather, pre-television cricket was something one listened to on the radio, while football (soccer) was more of an in-person thing, with clubs chartering trains to take their supporters to away games.
fruityyamenrunner reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
yeah except i don't think anyone would call them new v old
kontextmaschine posted this Does England have a cricket/soccer thing like America does with baseball/(American) football where the older one is...