As most people know, in soccer tournaments and league play, teams are awarded points for the results of their games, and the points add up to decide who gets to move on in the early stages of tournaments, or for the league season overall, with a win = 3 points, a tie = 1 point, and a loss = 0 points.* Well, the players, teams and coaches might not appreciate this, but 0 - 0 ties can be so boring, and sometimes it looks like the two teams don't even care if they win, so long as they tie and get 1 point, so I propose changing the points system to giving 0 points to both teams for 0 - 0 ties, and effectively treat 0 - 0 results as a loss for both teams; that, I think, could encourage both teams to try harder to score and produce a more interesting game for fans to watch. After all, tickets (and TV sports packages) are expensive, so I think fans deserve a fun game free from the type of cynicism that would allow teams just to play for a scoreless tie. Fans only want the type of cynicism that produces unnecessary fouls (especially the ones intended to injure players), dishonest denials of the fouls having been committed, fish-flop play-acting to draw fouls and yellow and red cards, biased referee calls that effect the outcome of games in favor of one team over another, and the like: now that's the kind of cynicism we can all get behind!
* I always wondered: Why it is 0 points? If there is zero, zip, zilch, nothing, how can it be plural? Oh, well. Maybe it's a bunch of nothing. But a bunch is treated as a singular entity in English, so I'm even more confused now. (Just kidding. I guess all numbers are plural except for one, even including zero; after all, zero is already nothing, so we want to act like it's more than it is, you know, just to encourage it; we wouldn't want it to get discouraged and give up being zero and just end up being nothing, would we?)
