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You think making them last longer would make them more interesting?

But that's just a quirk of the rules, if you reduced a football match to 60 mins but stopped the clock every time it went out of play you would get 100% exactly as in American Football. The only thing that would change is that, as in the tedious bore-fest that is live American Football, the...

So the ball is in play for more time in football than American football... I went to the first ever NFL match in the UK and it was one of the most tedious things I have ever seen - and I was a massive fan of the C4 highlights programme. NFL is definitely a game made for TV.

You obviously didn't watch England's group matches...in fact most of the boring, defensive matches in the whole tournament - Italia 90 has the fewest goals/game of any world cup.

Not really, in world cups record is as follows: 1950 - didn't get out of the group (including being beaten by USA) 1954 - 1/4 finals 1958 - 1/4 finals 1962 - didn't get out of the group 1966 - winners 1970 - 1/4 finals 1974 - didn't qualify 1978 - didn't qualify 1982 - Got to second group...

Yeah, because until there were loads of foreigners, we won everything all the time!