Here’s a list of XI inspirational sports stories from the world’s most popular sport – Football. After all, Football is Life, Football is Love. 1. Leicester City 2015-16 season Leicester City Football Club were on the knife edge in the … Continue reading Football is life: XI Inspirational Stories
It was the 1998 World Cup, held at France when my fascination for the Spanish national team grew from admiration to unconditional support. Live coverage of European club football had started entering Indian homes and fascinated by Real Madrid and … Continue reading Pep Talk 21: My World Cup of Sorrow
Every picture has a story of its own! Credits: Guardian.com, Cnn.com, gettyimages.com, businessinsider.com, the national.ae Continue reading Football: Top 25 – Best Images from World Cup 2018
Courtesy a 14inch black & white Sonodyne television and live coverage from Mexico, three decades ago, I got attracted to football thanks to one Diego Armando Maradona and his Argentinian team. They won the World Cup that year, 1986, and … Continue reading Football: Insights from Jonathan Wilson’s book ‘Angels with Dirty Faces’ on Argentina Football
After Germany historic Euro 2016 quarter final win over Italy via penalty shootout, this is an attempt to examine why Germany are best in shootouts and practice more than other teams. Mathematically the importance of penalty kicks is so high … Continue reading Why Germany are the King of Penalty shootouts
Lionel Messi announces retirement from international football 27th June 2016 will now be known the day when Lionel Messi choked himself to football retirement from the national team. This came hours after the national team, Argentina, handed over to Chile, … Continue reading Lionel Messi announces retirement, Must thank Gonzalo Higuain, Heber Lopes and Chokergentina
India ‘Kohli’fied (qualified) for the semi finals of the T20 World Cup 2016 with lot of stutter, struggle and literally back from the dead more than once (vs Bangladesh specially). It now almost seems destiny and one Virat Kohli have … Continue reading Analysis : Hosts find semis tougher than finals of big events
World Cup finals are all about ‘toe poke’ and ‘brain freeze’ moments. Zinadine Zidane’s brain freeze cost France their second Julius Rimet trophy in 2006. Four years later, an Arjen Robben toe-poke miss denied Holland their first ever world cup. … Continue reading How Sabella and Higuain denied Messi a World Cup
Reflecting on the unbelievable set of results which have taken place in the current (2011-2012) cricket season and wonders whether bookies are the only species making hay in the sun. The ICC world cup was the last tournament, where the … Continue reading ARE ALL CRICKET MATCHES GETTING FIXED?
The Indian squad which had won the Prudential World cup in 1983 had a large share of multi skilled players – Mohinder Amarnath, Sandeep Patil, Kapil Dev, Kirmani, Kirti Azad, Madan Lal, Roger Binny and Ravi Shastri. All the said players could effectively do their prime trade properly and also contribute in another trade. I stayed away from terming them as all-rounders, cause purely by definition, only Kapil Dev fulfilled the could be termed so. In my books, an all-rounder is one who has ability to score 50 runs in an ODI / 100 runs in a test innings and … Continue reading India can’t escape grooming all-rounders
