The big problem with football is that stadium floors may not accommodate 120 meters in length. >>> "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/07 2:54 AM >>> Yes, I agree totally! Down with soft metric! The time is long overdue for hard metricating soccer. It is not British anymore. These 15 cm should be clipped off. And the hurdles used in athletics should be changed too; they are still a yard high, expressed as 91.4 cm. Make them 90 cm exactly! Soft metric is used by the enemy to make people believe that metric is unworkable and stupid. You can find this in their arguments time and time again. It can and will force supporters of metric to use ifp because of the horrible numerical values soft metric entails, whch can lead to costly errors. And the latter are ammunition for F2M, BWMA, etc. Han -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: dinsdag 7 november 2000 00:51 Betreff: [USMA:9042] Re: sports rules > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:07:46 kilopascal wrote: > >2000-11-06 > > > >I don't know enough about football to say if a change from 9.15 m to 10 m is critical or not. > > Well, John, I do... And I can assure you it ISN'T! Actually no one goes around with a metric tape measuring the distance from the ball to the human barrier. It's all done quite arbitrarily in real life by referees. Therefore, no harm would be done by simply cutting that value to 9 or extending it to 10 (my preferred choice). > > >... I just feel the 15 cm is useless nonsense. > >... > And I completely agree with that!!! > > Marcus >
