So who all watched the opening
ceremony? Here, in India things were difficult for the viewers. As if the wait
for the opening ceremony and match was not enough that Sony Six [the official
broadcasters of FIFA WC in India] decided to torture us with their mindless
antics and analysis (was there any analysis). Gaurav Kapoor this is not IPL or
any other desi tournament and that girl who ever that is, don’t come from
tomorrow and spare us please. Sony Six tried extremely hard to put us off to
sleep and before things went worse the opening ceremony did start.
Did I say
worse? What was that JLo & Pitbull? Lip Syncing and not even dong that
right! And what exactly was Pitbull wearing (under his pants!!!). I expected a
Rio Carnival (and why shouldn’t I, after all it’s Brazil) but had to digest
some tablos and people in weird costumes – why exactly were they dressed as
trees and plants and flowers or insects or whatever?? No one knows. Thank god
it didn’t go on for hours (if that was India it could go on for hours) or else
I would have definitely slept.
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| Worst performance ever... |
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| Why exactly did we have them? |
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| Was way way better |
Believe me Johannesburg you were
so much better, Shakira take a bow you were far far better with your Wakka
Wakka [I still listen to it, and it also reminds me of the jungle tribal dance
we girls used to do in our PG]. From the song only a certain P&G will be
happy for free publicity of their product – remember Ole Ole …Olay Olay…
Anyways let’s get to the match
experience, I love the fact that almost the entire stadium well 99.99% was
radiating in the bright Yellow color and yeah Croatia you did have some
supporters – some specks of red in a field of yellow sunflowers!!!
Marcelo – it’s okay buddy, shit
happens, and sometimes it happens at wrong places on wrong days. But still you
managed to create your own world record of first ever own goal by Brazil in WC
history!!! Oouch… I did swear at you at that time – and I am sure millions of
other Brazil supports would have but it’s okay now that Neymar came to the
rescue. But how exactly do you digest this – Brazil hosting World Cup, Brazil
is one of the favorites, first match of the world cup, 11 minutes into the
match and you score an own goal!!! I couldn’t for sometime till Neymar added
his golden touch. God save Scolari, I bet his blood pressure was dancing on top
of his head with that self goal!!
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| hahhahaha... |
We were all busy predicting on
number of goals and who will score. I told my friend 4-2 and yes I am not quite
wrong on Brazil’s part – they did score 4 goal’s. Marcelo just forgot to kick
on the other side of the park!!! And Croatia – I had set too much expectations…
it’s okay to succumb sometimes. ;)
But the best blow came this
morning when I was driving to work – still sleepy from last night’s football
hangover - the radio presenter conveniently
declared and denounced how Neymar scored the self goal and blah blah blah and
said she will blabber more on her new found knowledge of football and some more
blah blah. For some moments I din’t know if I should call up and tell her who
exactly Neymar Jr is and what exactly he did! Well people did call/communicate
to rectify. She also mentioned Afghanistan had qualified for the world cup!!!!
I am falling off my chair in disgust!! According to the RJ the only two
countries to qualify from Asia were – Japan & Afghanistan!!!!! :O
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| That's how you feel when you listen to all this!! |
Madam only to make it clear to
you there are three from Asia – Japan, Korea Republic & Iran – I don’t know
where you get your facts from, but definitely you are not reading the
newspapers at least. I wonder what will
happen when the private radio channels are allowed to broadcast news in
India!!!!!
But hold your guns people, that’s
not all, you should have listened to what some people had to say. Apparently
this radio station had done some random survey and asked random people about
the FIFA WC and who their favourites were – some answered INDIA….. [now blank
expression on my face, I don’t know how to react!] If you are laughing your ass
off then read what they said,
“India is my favourite team, I
love football and I want India to win this time”!!!!!!
“India has won the cricket world
cup, T20 World Cup and now should win the Football World Cup this year”
One madam said, Indian football
team is great and she was pretty sure India will bring the world cup home this
time.
On that note I can’t write
anymore, it’s all goof ups all the way.
Okay I am watching Spain &
Netherlands tonight and might watch Mexico vs Cameroon too. Which all matches are you watching to day/night?
Leave a comment below and let me know. Spread some more Football Fever.
