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The perils of fandom...

Yesterday... was it God's own hand..? that helped Germany to win the Quarter finals. Yesterday was it God's own will that Argentina remained so helpless in spite of Lionel Messis and the legendary guidance of Diego Maradona. Though I am not an atheist, I still prefer not to believe that the out come of yesterday's match was was God's doing. I may be a die hard fan of "Diego Maradona" but it was simply a feast to eyes watching the German's fielding the goals one after the other & never for even a while allowing the Argentinians to take a perfect shot into their goal post. This week and the coming will show how far Germany’s form will take them. Germany has won the FIFA World Cup before but so also has Argentina . If Germany is able to repeat the quarter final feat when they play Spain on July 8 and if Germany is able to eventually fly home with World cup on July 11, it will only prove that it is will,spirit and undying team effort that allows ...

God's hand on the Goal post...

My knowledge of football is as limited as my knowledge of cricketing. However watching FIFA world cup has always given me the kicks & excitement which has ever remained a missing factor while watching the IPL series .It is sad that even in spite of Lalit Modi & his team's work out to spread the outfield with semi covered cheerleaders, the cricketing pitch has not been able to produce any knockout games, they merely remained a series of glam & glamour. Well it is not right to go foot loose kicking cricket every time & every where. After all it is the one game in our country that scripts overnight rags to riches stories outside of the silver screens. Football & the world cup has always been for long a part of my day dreams.One of my life time goal is to see myself cheering my "INDIA" at the FIFA GOLD CUP. Since it may take a few more of decades to see that coming true I do wish I am able to survive that many decades and also remain hail hearty and a...