Saturday, June 16, 2007

Real Football

I was incensed at this blundering headline on CNN-IBN "Mittal eyeing English soccer club". No, it wasn't because yet another premier league club is under the uber-rich guys' scanner. And no, it's not because Mittal's looking at Birmingham City - a mid table club when at it's best (Mittal is twice as rich as Chelsea's owner - Abramovich). Isn't it obvious? Soccer?.. Soccer?? Since when did Indians start calling football soccer? Where are all the guys that cry hoarse over the malignant impact of the Western culture on Indian society? I demand that Shiv Sena immediately send some of it's youth wing people to the IBN headquarters to smash some TVs and windows and maybe even to 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens (just for the heck of it.. it sure does have a lot of windows!)

Why do the Amricans call it football anyway? It's not like the players use a lot of their feet. And certainly American football wasn't invented before football. I guess you could put it down to one of those "American things" that you cannot fathom. Like mashed potatoes?



Some more cool shirts:


You can buy these and more at this site. Isn't it ironic that the site's name is soccer.com?



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Thursday, June 7, 2007

"Desert Rose"

You can't help but feel sorry for these chaps. Not only do they have to risk their lives everyday, they have to pee into concatenated plastic water bottles! Call of duty?




Courtesy: Michael Yon's excellent report on the Iraq war

 

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