Right now I am one pissed off guy..and by pissed off..i mean REALLY pissed off!!
How much can one take yaar?
For all those of you who dont believe in letting the bad performances of the team u support take u down...GO AWAY..U wont be able to understand wht I am trying to say here..
Wait a min..when did I start bothering abt whoever reads this stupid blog of mine or not???
hahaha..
Some ppl feel humans r stupid to let a simple game which they themselves dont play bother them..
Some stupid ppl even say this out loud to the despondent fans rt after their team has lost..ending up being hit nasty by the said fans..
These ppl are missing out on a big part of human life..The part of us which feels like belonging to something exciting..And wht better & exciting way than the world of sports??
Be it the most famous and beautiful game in the world - Soccer or for the billions of crazy fans in the sub-continent,Cricket?
I dont want to dissect the psychological reasons here for which humans support a particular team in a particular sport,where they celebrate raucously ,party hard and have a blast after their team wins or they feel depressed and down,behave like there's nothing right in this world after it loses..but its true!!Even though we dont get paid for watching the game..(in fact its the other way round..fans are the base for any sport,innit?)..we involve ourselves on a personal level in the outcomes of these matches,letting it affect our next day in the real world of work and family life!
Well after that short(?) rant on the logic of fan behaviour,let me tell u what has got me so upset...
Let me start off with this month's major event..actually most ppl dont give a damn..so dunno how major this is in India,but the 2006 Hockey World Cup was a pretty successful event back in Germany which hosted it.
Q : hey,didnt Germany host the Football WC dude??
A : Yes man!And thy hosted the Hockey WC too..which they even won it this time..
In fact just read in a news article,the Germans even made a handsome profit of 135 million Euros in the process!!Pretty neat amount in hockey..
So,wht abt India?? Thy came 11th after beating South africa 1-0..
Hello!!There were only 12 teams in this WC..not 36!!And we are at the rock bottom..I was pretty confident in our abilities to gift chances to our opponents at the most inopportune moment,tht i wont have been surprised to see us finish last..
Not that I had any high hopes from our team...But their good performance in the recent Azlan Shah tourney had raised a teenee weenee bit of hope in my foolish mind of a decent standing in the WC..
U know,if we had lost playing good hockey..i wudnt feel all that bad..But the way Indian team played most of their games..where's the grace and natural attack which we cud see even 5 yrs back??Almost in all the matches,we conceded enuf goals in the last 10 mins to let the other team win!It was too frustating to watch..I cudnt even convince myself to continue seeing the rout..let alone expect my roomies to!Either way,a top half finish wudnt have beeen so bad..
England were the surprise package this time..well thy surely surprised me..LOL
I have a soft corner for them..dunno why..but its there..hmm..maybe coz' i root for their national team in Football?hehe
Holland surprised everyone too i guess..not in a good way,mind u..when u have geniouses like Teun de Nooijer and Taeke Taekema in ur team and u dominate world hockey,7th place is not for you..
Germany won a rather thrilling encounter with the Kangaroos(hockeyroos if u must)..thy were 3-1 down and came back to win it 4-3..Rather sad I missed the live action*sigh*
Wht can one really expect anyways from our team..
The lack of basic infrastructure,money,special attention to players,modern facilities,(24 astro turfs??Thts all??),politics,regionalism,nepotism ..u cant really blame them..
I have stopped counting the number of times the coach has been changed in the last few years..
The hap-hazard and autocratic way in which the IHF runs the game,its no wonder we are so pathetic..not in terms of class mind!!I still feel we have one of the best defenders in the world in Dilip Tirkey(thts the captain..ye ignorants)..but its the final results that count ,dont they??
I keep hoping for an end to India's misery everytime,not that it matters..
One can still hope,cant he?
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Game of hockey? Well, India can play games like kho-kho or pulling the rug from each others feet, but hockey is something that they have completely lost it. Thanks to messers Gill and our sports BABUlog, we continue to rot despite the amazing talent we have.
Once, we were DECENT but now we have lost it. Sad and very true.So people like us who like hockey can continue to blog up all theblogosphere , but it will not really change anything.
As for me you can guess my name..doesnot really matter
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