Everytime we attempt at understanding the reasons for failing at major sporting events other than cricket - we have a bad habit of taking potshots at cricketers the fans and the sport as a whole. What is wrong if the authorities of a particular sport have better managed and marketed a sport when the others have been busy in getting themselves involved in one scandal after the other.
I myself used to play football. Comparing the way in which the game is being managed at the grass roots itself can answer a lot of our questions concerning our failure to sparkle at the olympics or to even manage to break into the FIFA top 100.
Kindly refrain from abusing a sport in sheer frustration of our current inability to perform better in other sports - most when you face lack of ideas to explain "the tales that our medals tell"
RE:An unfortunate comparison
by Jayesh Thankachan on Aug 18, 2008 10:35 PM Permalink
well, talking about grassroots, it will come back to the people, we are the one who elect our government. why do we elect people who havent even passed high school , and have been linked with criminals. How can you expect a country to progress when the well learned IAS officers have a minister who has not even passed school above him
