May , 2006
Ingredients of a classic game
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What makes a football match memorable? So gripping in fact, that all you can do when talk around office turns to the great game, is speak about some match you saw more than 15 years back! The book, Fever Pitch has some excellent pointers, but before we get into that, here's a little about it. Fever Pitch was voted as the all-time No 1 sporting book last year, and is the tale of an obsessed Arsenal Football Club fan. Football fans will know that it was a good time to pick up this book; after all, the under-achieving Arsenal made it to the European competition's final (and lost to Barcelona) for the very first time in their 120 year-old history this week. Fever Pitch charts the many mind-numbing games that Arsenal played during Hornby's teenage years and is a hilarious depiction of a typically football obsessive.....
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H R Venkatesh is News Editor-Anchor at CNN-IBN. He has just returned from the University of Oxford where he completed an M Sc in Contemporary India as a Shell-Chevening Scholar. He has 9 years’ experience in TV news having worked in several positions. He began as a Business Correspondent at CNBC India in Mumbai where he was asked to report on – hold your breath – the cement, steel and shipping industries. Numbed by two years as an ‘old economy’ reporter, he moved to cover sport at Headlines Today in Delhi. As cricket correspondent he travelled with the Indian cricket team for two years. Highlights from this stint include watching Sachin Tendulkar complete his 10,000th test run, interviewing Sourav Ganguly 18 times and Shane Warne at least 15 times (not so much due to his persistence as to the fact that the duo were contractually bound to do the interviews), and watching Australia conquer the final frontier. Numbed yet again, by the realization that the best way to appreciate sport is to NOT report on it, he moved towards covering politics. Along the way, he began presenting news and moved to CNN-IBN as it was preparing to launch in 2005. He spent the next few years anchoring news & special shows, and occasionally foraying into the field, before taking a break to study. Although nobody’s given him a prize for it, he is proud to have been the first Indian to present a podcast – the News Junkie Podcast – online.
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