The love story finally revealed : 2 scots and an English man

There are some love stories that should not be told. They cause great pain and strife to all involved. The time has come to reveal the true love story between 3 gentlemen, and I really mean "gentle". 
This story has drama, pain, sorrow, laughter, happiness, alcoholism and all that is expected from a love story. Enjoy.

Howard webb was signed to be the main player for United

Webb, celebrating one of the goals with his United teammates

Things were going brilliantly for the pair and United.

The love of another scot was tempting but.....

But nothing can replace true love

Webb doing his best Arsene Wenger impression "I did not see it"

New found money, new found love.

The death of love

Apologies to all the readers of my fantastic blog, that is for the 5 people I know who try to follow what I have to say, so thanks for that.

I haven't updated my blog in a while, call it the curse of work which literally destroys any so called work life balance, or lack of it, makes me go nuts just thinking of the ton of work we all or at least I end up doing but none of that for now, I need to put this out now.

Twas Valentines day 24 hours back and while half the world was trying to prove their love or show that they remembered it, I was here as usual forever alone, well not alone actually, I had my ps3 waiting for the glorious weekend to start but then again I had the same plan last week and baam all that went for a toss with a ton of work during the weekend, fair enough, I have football, right?

Not really, my following of football, well every sport has drastically been cut, thanks to work and well my own need for some r & r , gone are the days where I would be awake till 3 AM watching Osasuna Vs Espanyol, just for the heck of it. Those glorious days of me knowing and naming at least 15 players per Premier League club, gone. Champs league games to watch, to be fair I have not watched ONE champions league match in the last 14 months.

The emptyness of football is growing larger within me, I may never have been the go to guy for football knowledge but I knew about most new kids on the block and what clubs they play for , positions etc, all that is just a fading distant memory of what I used to be and what I am now, thinking half the time about what scheme to run and what promo can I use. True that is a requirement in the current capacity but certainly football should be in my mind, if a guy would think about sex every 20 seconds, well I would or at least used to think about why Torres was sucking so much post his major injury (2010 ) or how the hell can Etoo make so much douhg for Anzhi and how would they run the club at all , paying such huge wages.

Work was supposed to be freedom from the shackles of constant college and tension, studies, exams etc, where I would make dough and just live, away from all inhibitions and just enjoy life as it comes, who would have thought I would have to give up this much for something that is a trivial thing in more developed nations.

Someday, sometime in the future, I sure hope I can be with it again, this may not be the best time but we will have better days.

Football, thou are still there to make me smile during those awful days , may you never go away, I will be back. I know it.

August 18th, WE RISE!

Not that its going to be a political movement that has wrapped this nation into this KFC twister that you just can't swallow cause it is bland and tasteless and basically pointless to eat[ when compared to the awesome zinger that is, never would I sully KFC's name at all or quality]. 
18th August will be a date to remember for most people like me, not the perverts but the football lovers. 

The Premier League or the "Barclays Premier League" is to start, which means late nights watching that 11PM/ 2AM saturday night game, watching my beloved Liverpool come back to life and action weekend in weekend out, making sure my social life comes to a halt for almost 8 months making sure that I do not wander out during any of Liverpool's games and make sure I have no parties/family gatherings etc on saturday and sundays.

The season is going to have an adverse effect on me especially every monday, IF we play well and win, no issues I know its going to be a kickass weekend and at least would be able to shut people up at the office, not that a lot of office folk follow football since this is a cricket crazy nation, heaven forbid if we lose, I would not come online for a couple of days, not follow any sports section in the news and for sure I would not even watch any sports channel [Cue sportscenter and the likes talking about a poor performance]

On the bright side, at least my weekends will have some meaning and I will at least look forward to them apart from being an escape from office , a little bit of a break from the normal routine I have had for almost 3 months now with no football, yes formula 1 can cut in and make a difference but Football is football. Another positive to come is that all my anger, darkness, frustration [in the batman voice] will be out on display for the whole world, facebook and all as well as my parents to see, remember dad coming in to charge his cell at 2 AM, Yossi scores against Fulham in the 94th minutes and I go berserk.  

Also every single football fan will become a manager for every single day of the season, every decision will be nitpicked and discussed over internet forums for weeks on ends, crazy amounts of abuse will be thrown around, nonsensical reasons will pop out, history will be re-written, brought up and abused like an amateur bdsm model. 

Yes the season is about to begin, families will be forgotten, women all but negated and friendships will be tested over the course of 8 months.

Thank God for Football.

ITS TIME TO RISE
BRING ON AUGUST 18TH

 

ESPN: Words Dont Fail me anymore

While my last post was no where near to being a rant , this is on proper mother freaking rant which has been building in me for the past one month.
The pressure of college and projects hasnt been all that bad but recently seeing the schedule for ESPNSTAR sports finally broke the camel's back, so here's the situation

I know India is a country where every freak,well at least the majority of the freaks love and adore cricket and would actually kill for cricket if they had a chance, so ESPN putting all its egg's in one basket and trying to milk the max out of the Cricket 50 over World cup is logical and understandable , since it doesnt get the rights for the India games [series] ,maximizing the revenue from the World cup is the most important thing for em, but those fucking idiots at ESPN should be shot in the leg, then in the arm ,then in the gut and then in the other limbs and then taken to a hospital to check fixed and patched up and then shot all over again,

Here's WHY
Those chuts decide to show one match in all 3 channels on a sunday just coz its India's match,ie the match will be shown on ESPN,Star Sports and Star Cricket simultaneously ,yes all 3, same time and also they decide to fuck football,so no matches or wait just one chut manc match is to be shown this weekend.

I do not understand the logic behind it,also we must remember that all India matches are shown on DD national so....we will have 4 channels showing the same match on sunday and of course the people who lose out are the football lovers

As it is ESPN lost the LA Liga rights and the Champions League rights and the Serie A rights of the subcontinent to Ten and Zee sports ,Neo sports shows the Bundeliga nowadays and to add insult to injury ESPN has completely stopped showing any and every american sport
While i had hopes of watching a few NFL games in a year,thats completely gone down the drain,i cant get to see any NHL games at all even though i LOVE ICE HOCKEY,samething goes for Baseball,although i dont like the sport as much but seeing a pitcher go full hilt at 95mph is something amazing and of course ESPN also lost the rights to telecast the NBA which is being shown by Ten sports and SONY PIx [which is a movie channel,PIX by the way also broadcasts the FA cup which ESPN lost the rights to also]

What i dont understand is why did they launch Star Cricket if they wanted to show the game on ESPN and STAR sports,Ten created the Ten Cricket channel and most of the matches are shown on that, and nothing comes close on the Ten Sports channel,which has forced DTH players like Tata sky to forcefully add the channel in growing unrest and demand by the users of the DTH,same thing should have applied for Ten action but again Tata sky wont add Ten action till probably India plays in the football world cup or one indian plays in some special league

So i can easily states 2 things

1:ESPN will not survive for long as a sports channel rather it will become only a cricket channel

2:Tata Sky is making a huge error by not including Ten Action and depriving people of football

And this is more as to why i hate things here,how easily it is to appease the majority and forget about the most beautiful game in the world,the game that is played the most all around the world and rather pay attention to a sport that was forced upon us to an extent by our colonizers ,a sport that is hardly played and a game that is ruled by just oen country in terms of economic value , India.

But then again hasnt that always been the case in the country ?
As long as the powerful are in charge the others can fuck off
As long as cricket is on,football can fuck off
As long as money is there ,a beautiful sport can be killed and made to die
As long as 1 billion people will want to watch a match on 4 channels,they can fuck all forget about the millions of people who love football

And then people talk about why sports dont grow in India,well cricket wont let it and people more importantly wont allow it as well.

Football for Life
Down with ESPNSTAR
Down with Cricket
open your eyes people

Nagu

The 3rd member of the gang of best pals is Nagu ,aka Somraj Sarkar,this guys name was fairly easy to put together due to his mannerisms and by what he is called at home.As all of you must know by now,if you didnt already,all bengali children have a pet name,no matter how easy their name may be easy to pronounce or even if the name is something unique,every bengali kid has a pet name ,thats the rule.

So we have Babla,Rohit is called Tiga[although he is happy with the name,since it is somewhat similar to Ex Fulham manager Jean "Tiga"na,I have Bonny ,and thus Somraj being a bong has "Raja" and since the freak[and believe me he is the freakiest of the lot] would always stick his tongue out to show his disliking of anything i put 2 and 2 together and Baam Naga-raja [King cobra] was born,so to cut it down we started calling him Nagu.

The first time i met the bloke was in class 10,he used to sit behind my bench and he seemed to be a normal bloke,a proper normal guy is hard to find in my school STB,but this guy would keep his trap shut,do nothing,in fact his friend Debapratim was the one who would do all the madness between the two,so i thought he was the mellow bong kid in school who wouldnt do anything to upset people because he was afraid of getting beaten up.

Our friendship initially grew because we were in the same hindi class[wow 2 bongs taking hindi as their 2nd language,we werent able to let that pass because chintoo would have a right go at us,"Betray" and all],there was football to discuss as well,typically he is a manc cunt,but we became the best of pals due to the school band,i was asked to join and play along with nagu,babla,gablu[roshan],adil ,afzal.Nagu was the drummer and we all had our first practice i remember at Babla's Granny's but ever since that day we have always practiced at nagu's.

This bloke is probably confused about his orientation as well,from the time i remembered asking him a very important question his answer has always confused me
q:if you had a choice would you spend a night with the hottest female of your choice or your favorite drum kit?
A:Drumkit,every single fucking time.

Wow is all i can say,and plus he has never had even a go at a relationship,not even an inkling for it,again credit has to be given but since he is a retard it doesnt make it any better.

Again the other bengali characteristic pops up here,being related to music somehow or another,he is a decent drummer though,but his drumming skills and all arent the most distinguishing factor about the bloke in the group,so to recap
Babla=Abuser/Comedian,Chintoo=Geek/Wanna be tall guy,Me=I am the glue that holds the gang together,Comedian/Abuser/Catalyst/Typical Harami comment maker.

Nagu is the slow,dumb freak,now he is slow,but he isnt a freak because of that,he is the real freak because of his actions and emotions or lack of sometimes.
For eg:Some time in diwali we all were at nagu's terrace[i wasnt there] so the guys were all looking up at the sky and a few firecrackers started lighting up the sky
Nagu ,points to the sky and says casually "eh boom,.........Boom.......boom" ,pointing at every burst cracker,with no emotion at all,but he continued saying "boom" everytime something lit off.

Then there are times he tries to prove his stupidity and ignorance,chintoo,nagu and i were at chintoo's,and we were talking about our favorite author's,Chintoo had a ton of Hercule Poiree books or something,i remember making a ton of jokes on em,Agatha Christie as well,i think they were the same book,so i told em "Anon" is my favorite author,i dont read too many books barring game manuals or game magazines,so the 3 of us have a nice chuckle,then after 5 minutes nagu asks "Eh Who is Anon?",so we give him the benefit of the doubt and tell him "Anon is short for Anonymous",Nagu goes "Ohhhhh ok",5 minutes later "Eh Who is Anonymous?"

Then there was the great FA cup joke when Liverpool beat Manu 1-0 in 2006,and he is telling us the next day in school
Nagu:did you see Peter Crouch being busted open by Drogba?
Rohit:Drogba plays for Chelsea.....

Oh yeah whenever something wrong is said in front of him or he wants to interrupt someone,he makes retarded sounds from his mouth ,for eg if anyone has said some wrong fact or something he goes "eh burrrrrrrrrrr pup click clack booomp" and then he starts talking,although i think he does it to make himself the center of attention.

Normally a calm cool guy,sometimes he loses his cool and when you touch a nerve he goes berserk,if anyone constantly pisses him off,mostly me or babla he would shout out "Boka choda ,Khankeer Chele ,Khisti Khabi?"[Translation "Bak chod,Randi ka bachcha,gaali khayega?],oh and he has the strength of like 5-6 men,babla,chintoo and i cant hold him down,we tried but we fail every single time.So he is the wrong person to mess around with.

The avid footballer he is,and we are as well,so almost every alternate day at Rohit's we would play footie,Rohit + Babla,Me+Nagu+Manko,the 3 of us would be together because we didnt have skills and we all are overweight,well nagu aint but he is slow,Nagu though would make excellent runs and would invariably end up being right in front of goal,ball gets crossed and he is standing like a foot in front of the goal line,and then when you think he will finish,the finishing touch by nagu always ended with the ball hitting the roof's ledge,no goal,he did this every time we played like 15 times out of the 16 times he would have a chance at goal,thats talent.

He also sports a beard second to that of a criminal,full fledged beard + moustache combo,he even scared my cousin sister who now refers to him as "daari waala",we gifted him a shaving set on his 16 birthday i remember,he is unrecognisable when he is clean shaven ,he probably will get arrested one day for not looking like the person in his ID card or some,else a terrorist or something for sure.

Right now he is studying Architecture at BESU,he always had a dream about being an "arky" as he calls it ,i remember him being pummeled every single day by his seniors as it was part of ragging,but he couldnt rag his juniors,bloody chutia,nevertheless,his dream was always to build the roof for court where the Wimbledon finals are played,i think that dream is over as i heard the construction for the roof has begun or is finished,not sure,but i coaxed him to build ,or at least he will plan my next house,as he always reminds me,since he is an "arky" ,he will only make plans and not take part in the building process as he is not an engineer,typical lazy bastard.

Sleepover

Yeah this one blog is about a sleepover i had with me pals babla and chintoo ,now for all you folks out there thinking why do 20 year olds have sleepovers?,its cause we are 20 years old physically but mentally i am around 9,babla is 12 and rohit is the most mature amongst us at a cool 15.Since chintoo/rohit doesnt stay in calcutta anymore ,whenever he does come over we have one sleepover at me place,thats become the law now,this one sleepover was held quite recently on the night of the game between Aston Villa and Liverpool,now i wasnt that keen on the game coz of our poor form and all,i was much more interested in me pals.

As per usual rohit [the ever punctual guy] comes bang on time at around 8,he had made this absolutely kickass cake before and brought a lot more [the gay can cook!,well bake at least],i was treating em punks to dinner coz of my excellent MAT score[98.55%,i dont wanna brag but....],so we spent that evening remembering the good old days of STB,of Pope tera baap hai,of I had a fock and the other amazing stories as to how August Muni was the best penalty taker coz he was cock eyed and no one knew where he was gonna shoot,or about MR Raha "Mr Foolar has 2 daughter ,both of them are girls" his one liners still crack us up.Plus he bought his extrenal HD with a ton of movies and videos to see,some of his college in Suratkal ,some about comedy and the likes.

Babla as ever the late bastard came at around 10 but again as per law he brought ice cream to have with cake,fuck yeah!,the night starts with us having dinner and laughing our asses off coz of the hilarious jokes and crazy retarded things that happened at STB,quite naturally we laughed more than we ate,then came time for dessert,which was eaten in 2 shifts ,the first one was right after dinner with chocolate sauce that babla stole from his father's house[adil's house,thats another running joke],then we retired to my room,and again the night was spent abusing each other,abusing imran and abusing a ton of other people like we normally do.

As soon as it was midnite babla goes into scary movie mode and was bangin about wanted to watch a scary movie,we watched the blair witch project the last time and babla was shit scared after that,this time rohit brought around "Paranormal Activity",the much hyped horror flick,now even though we watched the movie at midnite and all ,plus the fact it was pin drop silent ,it wasnt that scary a movie but again as per the law babla was hiding under the sheets,while rohit was on the brink of falling asleep,i had to keep em both up,movie done and babla dozes off,usually its chintoo who goes off first while i piss the brain out of the other person awake,this time i had rohit for a nice long chat about chix,sex,school,college and friendship,football was one me mind and i tuned into the Villa Liverpool match,the 2nd half had started and it was still goal less between the sides.

It was around the 60th minute when rohit was asking bout good old Aquaman/Little Prince/Aquilani,chintoo is a Chelski fan,he was a former
Madarchod UNITED fan who jumped ship,and was blasting Aquilani for being a "Khaaja" player and all,right then Liverpool had a free kick ,around 25-30 yards from goal and i said "If Aquaman scores,i will do some crazy shit........"
Rohit says "Fuck you wont do anything asshole"
i replied "I will kiss Babla.......for sure"[now the kiss was to be a big fat one on his cheeks]....calm the fuck down,no one will kiss babla on his lips cept his maagi.

Fortunately Aquaman missed and i was saved,the match goes on,chance after chance for Villa and a good few chances for Liverpool,as the match draws to a close ,i was thinking damn this might not be a good result for us at all,but in the 93rd minute up steps El Nino/FT9/Torres and guides the ball clinically into the net ,and i had to do it,celebrated wildly and kiss babla,he was startled and woke up rubbing his cheek
"Kya hua???? Kaaaaa hua?"
and off he went back to bed.....
This just seals the love bond i have with babla.

In a few years time get ready for this

"Babla weds Antara" our alter egos

PS:I ,am in no way gay,neither is babla,or chintoo,this was just a crazy night,so calm the fuck down.

Goooooaaaaaaalllllllll

Now it wont take a rocket scientist to guess what this blog will be about,its about me love for football,the game which is played by most people in the world,the International body FIFA has around 150+ members,which is the most by any sports body in the world,the fact that really pisses me off is that apart from cricket no sport in India gets any support at all,in hockey we were gold winners 8 times in the Olympics,but we failed to qualify in the 2008 Olympics,hell we the India football team were invited to play in the 1950 Fifa world cup,but we didnt go to the event coz we didnt have no shoes....and that is a fact not a made up story.....its true

Back to the point,football is the one sport i watch any time i get,any team,any league will do[European mostly]....and the one club that i support more than any other club is of course Liverpool Fc which most of you should have known by now,for those numbnuts who dont know a thing bout us
1:Liverpool is the most successful English Club in terms for Winning the League 18 times but we are now tied with Malchoda Utd who also have 18 now

2:Liverpool is the most successful English club in Europe with 5 Champions league Titles....yes more than Malchoda,More than Chelshit[they havent won any european cups] and Arsenal

so again as you all should know i support my club through thick and thin.....no nonsense of switching clucs like chintoo did...i know you changed your allegiances from Manure to chelshit coz of the money.....so every time there is a liverpool game on the emotions run riot and i end up abusing,celebrating or just pissing people off....here are the top celebrations done in the past few years

1:Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea [2003 Premier league]
Michael 'Judas' Owen scored in the 90th minute
One of those games where i was thinking that the goal would just not come,but it did come in the 90th minute and i was so freaking happy i started jumpin and screaming and shouting at the top of me voice on me old rickety bed which was quite fragile....this i did at around 10:30 pm which was late nite at that time not anymore....so a crack is heard....next thing i know my dad comes running in me room and finds me sandwiched between a mattress and a lotta plywood

2:AC Milan 3-3 Liverpool [2005 champions league final]
We won the game 4-3 on Pens after trailing 3-0 at halftime...the greatest comeback in history probably
All Liverpool fans remember this one...that amazing night in Istanbul,its only us the Liverpool fans who thought maybe we can win this after Milan ripped us apart and were leading and cruising at halftime 3-0...i remember me friends askin me the next day
"By how many did Milan win"
i replied "We won on Penalties.....fuck yeah....fuck fuck fuck"
they didnt watch the entire game coz they thought the match was over
so rite after Dudek saved Shevchenko's penalty cue the dancing and celebrating,[no shouting this time...i was warned]...but since i was sleeping on the floor....coz me bed was broken...i slipped and hit my head on my desk....i started seeing more stars than a boxer who got punched by Iron Mike Tyson

3:West 3-3 Liverpool[2006 FA Cup final]
We win again on Pens
Stevie G scores probably one of the best and greatest FA cup goals in the 94th minute
i remember i was shifting and taking stuff from me old flat to me new one and i had to keep tabs on the score from a pal of mine....and when i heard that we won the Cup i was screaming and shouting and me dad was like
"what the hell is wrong why are you shouting? its just a football game"
i replied
"thats the passion dad...you wont understand you manure supporter"

4:Manchester UTD 1-4 Liverpool [March 2009]
A hammering at OLd trafford
the day when we raped our greatest and most hated rivals crap u at old trafford....i was watching the game with a manure pal of mine 'manko' and when Gaynaldo scored from a pen i was like "oh no here we go again" but then Torres made Vidic look like his bitch and Vander sar was licking his own gaad [ass]......stevie made evra his bitch got a pen and kissed the Badge and the camera....amazing...Fabulous Aurelio scored a majestic free kick and just to spice things up Nemanja Bitch itch was sent off.....and to rub salt into the festering wound...our 3rd choice Left back playing as a winger scored a goal looping the ball over Vander gaaars head....and i was abusing and making fun of manko so much that he left before the final whistle blew...and he vowed never to come to watch a manu game at my place.......

5:Fulham 0-1 Liverpool [March 2009]
Benny scores again at the death
While we hammered away at Fulham ,hitting the post 3 times in the game it was a feeling of deja vu,thinking we would not win the game...but Benny popped up and scored again at the death 94th minute...it was like 1:30 Am over here and me dad popped into me room to charge up his cell phone as soon as Benny scored i jumped up and started screaming and shouting and abusing away...all this while holding my dad

Me dad learnt a lesson and now never NEVER comes into me room while a football game is on!