Its been a sporting week. I am fortunate to get a room where I get sports channel. Not every room in hotel gets the Super Sports channel here. But it was a bit of disappointment earlier when I found that IPL was not featured here. But as game progressed, we started getting IPL matches in bits and pieces.
There were moments of desperation when the channel operator used to discontinue IPL and start Champions League matches. But the way Man U Vs Arsenal and Barcelona Vs Chelsea game went on .. it was a treat for sports followers.
Yesterday we watched Barcelona Vs. Chelsea at the hotel lobby. It was fun watching matches with the die hard fans cheering around. It was a scene to watch when Barcelona scored the last goal and one of the fans (Dodomite) went running around the lobby. We call cricket is like a religion in India, but here soccer is more than that. Its like every bar has a TV or screen and everyone has one local plus one european team to live with. Can you imagine seeing more people in front of TV screens at a night club than that at the dance floor. It is possible here.
So, for us watching soccer and discussing it at university has become a routine.
Now, lets move to IPL. After Chicken Tikka Masala and Chapatis, IPL is the favorite topic for our team. One day we watched a IPL game at Butterfly Bar in our hotel and Sean and I taught cricket to our friends from Germany, Canada and US. Dan was lucky to catch Mumbai's match and see Sachin blazing sixes after sixes. He is a great fan of Mumbai Indians and Sachin Tendulkar now.
To top it all, I could catch this Chennai Vs Panjab match today. It was such a thrill to watch a close match with magnificent hitting. Sports Mania is ON again.
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good ones.
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