Again, this is not a chat room. If you do not have something of your own personal interest on soccer that brought you to this public forum,you do not belong here. Find a Chat Room, or create something like alt.chat.soccer. Only people Working PR would come to a public forum on a particular subject matter and yet discernibly exhibit zero genuine interest in the subject. And that is perfectly understandable: PR firm hacks are Working several Newsgroups at once and cannot possibly hold a genuine interest and knowledge in them all.
Define "crank".
I engage in On Topic discussion and debate in the proper form more than anyone else here.
Here again, "the last word" is more of a personal type of characterization, as if we are friends or something. This public forum is here for people who are interested in soccer, to talk about soccer. Not even for people who are interested in soccer, to socialize.
The evidence is clear about the likelihood people on this newsgroup, are working for Public Relations firms. I have stated the evidence and defended the logical underpinning of that evidence, before and now.
You would think there would be more interest in talking about soccer in people based in soccer centric countries. Not the case at all, from the content of this public forum.
John