Talking football

Early Saturday morning is a “wow”. I feel like a real professional footballer getting mentally and physically ready for the game. I play with my friends for a team ‘D2’. Sometimes we play against some corporate teams. At other times we practice with each other and that’s even much fun. We play till our last energy drop, just able to drag ourselves to our apartments.

At evenings the same Saturday, I became a football analyst. I will be with my guys watching the Barclay’s English premier league games of my favorite team Liverpool fc and the rest. We analyze scores, table, fixtures, current form, team formation and transfers like they really matter us. Some of my friends are close to real football analysts. It’s always interesting to know their minds. We agree sometimes, argue at most of the times. We have our comments highly prejudiced by our supporting teams.
Not just on Saturday, but football gets on our top list of chat topics throughout the week. No site of gossips gets unnoticed and guys have all the details of clubs, players and their on and off field records and rumors and news. It’s surprising to hear someone say Lampard’s mom is suffering from pneumonia. Excuse me.

We compete not only on the real field with real football guys. Guys are also in managing clubs. Managing their fantasy teams and competing with each other in a league. It’s a virtual world, but a real pleasure. Sometime their talks make me feel they are the managers in real. They talk about buying, selling, offloading players, game formation, choice of captain, the starting eleven and all other things.
It’s just like football is in our blood. It feels good that I am able to be part of that circle. No matter what part of my life I am at the moment, the love for football has been always the same. Perhaps even getting better.


I sometimes wonder why I am so obsessed with this beautiful game. I wonder being a software developer why so much of my time involves football which has no role to play in my job or work. But on a cool note we play different roles during our lives, let football be one, isn’t it?