Similarities of English Football Team and Indian Cricket team
English football team and Indian cricket teams have plenty of similarities. It’s a curse that the two teams don’t live up to expectations. Plenty of money doesn’t guarantee all round talent or big wins in tournaments. Once again England lost to Germany 4-1 on Sunday in 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
Agreed there is log of individual brilliance but end of day the victory alone counts.
Some similarities listed here…
1. Lots of hype and expectations always but very less achievement as a team (read very less tournament wins)
2. Lot of money with respective sports board. (Read filthy rich) but comparatively less all-round talent in the teams
3. World famous leagues (IPL — cricket, EPL – football) and plenty of pride, revenue generation through the same
4. Teams known for individual brilliance and spectacular wins as result of same.
5. Demi god status for super stars (David Beckham, Sachin Tendulkar) in respective countries and perhaps rest of world.
6. Lack of consistency and winning habit.
7. Bad decisions turned against them (surprising most of times its against these teams)
PS: cricket fanatics don’t jump on with India’s recent Asia cup win. If you follow the game closely India is winning Asia cup after nearly 15 years which is just played by 4 nations (well ignore UAE & Nepal etc in cricket). This is an insult that India didn’t win for so long. But yes we should celebrate the recent win against lanka.
Comment made by Vaidhy Narayanan at Rediff.com. Thanks to Vaidhya for the insightful comment. This is so true!
For England, there’s no celebration this time around!
