Of Mandira Bedi and TOI

The last thing I want to read in a delicious football-world-cup-sports page is Mandira Bedi regurgitating stale prose.  Mandira Bedi! Thats like Jane Goodall writing about winning in "So you think you can dance?" ... or like Rabri Devi telling you how to pucker up your lips like Angelina Jolie...or like...wat? You say you get the drift eh? I say good.  And whats with Mandira's reviews of matches which are days old?  Even I update my blog more...hehe....

The Times Of India should clean up its act now...atleast on the first page banner! Their banner about Jabulani was spelt as Jubalani in various places. And yes, Jabulani is what it is...I am more careful than a national newspaper, thank you.

FIFA World Cup!!!

Right now the best thing that has happened is that Uruguay drew against France, in what was a pretty rough match.  France should not have to resort to pushing and shoving to get anywhere!  The match (being unfairly called the "most boring"  in the media) had Uruguay defending their goal well.  And for a person like me who watches football for the footballers,  Diego Forlan with his cute curly hair made it fun to watch the match.
And unarguably the best match to watch was the Argentina-Nigeria clash.  The Argentines almost seem to play out a slow and deliberate ballet on the ground...nice positioning and strategy and great team work.  And when Lionel Messi took charge of the ball, blazing a trail to the goal, it was a real treat to the eyes.  Dimunitive and super fast he is a magician with the ball.   The Argentina-Nigeria match had almost no foul play if we don't count how Messi was tripped up everytime he got near the goal.  Compared to that France really left a bad taste in the mouth. 

This week we have a heady mix of football with F1 racing. Yesterday my husband kept track of the qualifiers for the Canadian GP on his mobile phone while watching Argentina win.  I must admit he was having a hard time.  Too much pressure on him!! :-D