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No goal for India
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 | | 28 years ago, the world cup soccer experience entered my life courtesy the crackle of the radio. Buenos Aires 1978s was the cup of Mario Kempes, the legendary Argentinian with the flowing mane who, for a while, enabled an entire country forget the trauma of dictatorship and state |
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Cricket Move Over, Soccer Rocks Now
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 | | Friday is the big day for television industry. Ever wondered why? That's the day when we get our TRP ratings. That's the day where we get to know whether all the long hours of work that we put in through the week have borne any fruit. So as |
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Football jealousies
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 | | Get, set, go.
Biju took off at the sound of the whistle. He raced ahead. In his head were a hundred things. If he wins, this would be his second gold. His House, Orange, will get some bonus points. But what bothered him most was another |
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The magic of football
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| | "Wake up. Today is France versus Canada," Krishnan banged the doors of our house. It was two in the morning, and it was pitch dark. Krishnan and friends had a torch with them. Not the fancy ones run by cells. This one was made of dry palm leaves. |
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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 |
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Time for Calypso and Samba
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 | | Team India is in the land of Calypso and will be hoping to continue their good run in the ODIs and also extend it to the Test match arena.
With the current West Indies team just a poor shadow of the team of the 1970s and 1980s |
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