Friday, July 10, 2009
Why we dont use the term "Manu"
ManU is not a term United fans refer to themselves as. The term is only used by other supporters as a complete and utter insult to our club. The "u" is meant to be "you" by the rival fans.
An early example of its usage is this chant by West Brom fans: "Duncan Edwards is manure, rotting in his grave, man you are manure- rotting in your grave". The origin of "ManU" is a song to insult the dead Duncan Edwards.
Liverpool and Leeds fans copied this with their own man you /u versions to insult all of the lads who died at munich.
"ManU ManU went on a plane ManU ManU never came back again"
and..
"ManU Never Intended Coming Home" (if you combine the first letter of each word you get the word "Munich").
I hope this makes it clearer that saying manU is an insult, particularly to the older supporters and to see United fans using it now is shameful. I hope a few might read this, understand and spread the word.
So... Please REFRAIN from using this term ever again!!!!!
An early example of its usage is this chant by West Brom fans: "Duncan Edwards is manure, rotting in his grave, man you are manure- rotting in your grave". The origin of "ManU" is a song to insult the dead Duncan Edwards.
Liverpool and Leeds fans copied this with their own man you /u versions to insult all of the lads who died at munich.
"ManU ManU went on a plane ManU ManU never came back again"
and..
"ManU Never Intended Coming Home" (if you combine the first letter of each word you get the word "Munich").
I hope this makes it clearer that saying manU is an insult, particularly to the older supporters and to see United fans using it now is shameful. I hope a few might read this, understand and spread the word.
So... Please REFRAIN from using this term ever again!!!!!
Saturday, July 04, 2009
A new red devil !!
MICHAEL OWEN SIGNS UP FOR UNITED ON A FREE TRANSFER TO REVIVE HIS INJURY PRONE CAREER
The former Liverpool, Real Madrid and England striker completed a series of stringent medical tests and has signed a two-year deal with the Barclays Premier League champions.
Mobile Operators in Tamil Nadu
A compilation of mobile operators in Tamil Nadu..
1. Aircel: It was started off in TN, now its extends up to 10 states of India.It has a market share of 6.3% among the GSM operators in the country. Aircel is no.1 telecom operator on TN
Tagline: Its time to move on...
2. Airtel: India's no.1 mobile operator. It provides services to almost all areas of our country.Airtel joined the DTH bandwagon in India with Airtel Digital TV, a Direct-to-Home Television service. Airtel signed a major deal with Manchester United Football Club to enable its customers to watch their matches directly in phones!
Tagline: Express Yourself
3. Reliance: Anil Ambani's Reliance communications provides CDMA service, GSM service, Broadband Internet Service. Reliance Communications' Direct To Home (DTH) TV is known as "Big TV"
4. Tata Teleservices: Tata's CDMA service (Indicom) is not a big hit. Recently GSM was launched along with a Japanese operator called DOCOMO. It is called TATA DOCOMO.
Tagline: Do the new
5. Vodafone: Its been a gr8 story from BPL Mobile to Hutch and to Vodafone. Two years back, British Operator Vodafone bought 55% shares in Hutch to expand its network in India.
Tagline: Wherever you go our network follows; Happy yo Help
6. Virgin mobile: It is a joint venture between Tata Teleservices and Richard Branson's Virgin network. A coolest prepaid mobile Service which pays 10 paise for an incoming call.
Tagline: Think hatke!
7. Idea Cellular: Introduced a month before in TN with some attractive introductory plans.
Tagline: An !dea can change your life
8. MTS: A multinational mobile operator entered India with attractive offer of 10 lakh minutes free to any MTS mobile. But it didn't work out as expected.
9. BSNL: An affordable mobile service from India's own Bharti Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
10. Loop mobile: Coming Soon..
1. Aircel: It was started off in TN, now its extends up to 10 states of India.It has a market share of 6.3% among the GSM operators in the country. Aircel is no.1 telecom operator on TN
Tagline: Its time to move on...
2. Airtel: India's no.1 mobile operator. It provides services to almost all areas of our country.Airtel joined the DTH bandwagon in India with Airtel Digital TV, a Direct-to-Home Television service. Airtel signed a major deal with Manchester United Football Club to enable its customers to watch their matches directly in phones!
Tagline: Express Yourself
3. Reliance: Anil Ambani's Reliance communications provides CDMA service, GSM service, Broadband Internet Service. Reliance Communications' Direct To Home (DTH) TV is known as "Big TV"
4. Tata Teleservices: Tata's CDMA service (Indicom) is not a big hit. Recently GSM was launched along with a Japanese operator called DOCOMO. It is called TATA DOCOMO.
Tagline: Do the new
5. Vodafone: Its been a gr8 story from BPL Mobile to Hutch and to Vodafone. Two years back, British Operator Vodafone bought 55% shares in Hutch to expand its network in India.
Tagline: Wherever you go our network follows; Happy yo Help
6. Virgin mobile: It is a joint venture between Tata Teleservices and Richard Branson's Virgin network. A coolest prepaid mobile Service which pays 10 paise for an incoming call.
Tagline: Think hatke!
7. Idea Cellular: Introduced a month before in TN with some attractive introductory plans.
Tagline: An !dea can change your life
8. MTS: A multinational mobile operator entered India with attractive offer of 10 lakh minutes free to any MTS mobile. But it didn't work out as expected.
9. BSNL: An affordable mobile service from India's own Bharti Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
10. Loop mobile: Coming Soon..
Naadodigal-4.5/5
After a long long time, yesterday I saw an awesome movie.. Naadodigal by Samuthrakani. It portrays a story of three friends fighting for their friend's love . Must watch movie. The acting of all actors is absolutely realistic((especially Sasikumar's)! Watch it!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
How to revive football in India?
What does India mean to the world in field of sport? The answer would be cricket obviously. India is seventh biggest country and second highest populous country in the world but still we can't even produce a best XI in football . With a population exceeding 1.3 billion, not even a single Indian have played in the top leagues in the world whether its NBA, Premier League or Champions League. India did qualify for 1956 FIFA World Cup but pulled out of the championship for a lame reason that we didn't have footwear. Many of us doesn't know this!
India even won gold medal in football in the Asian games held in 50s . Those were the days India was developing to become a great football power. But eventually it didn't happen. Then in 70s, India got craze of Hockey. India won gold after gold in hockey in Olympics. Then in 1983 Indian Mens Cricket Team won the Cricket World Cup which I believe the reason that ignited cricket fever in India. Then no other sport excelled except cricket. Hockey became worse than any other sport cause being our national game no one supported it and India won nothing in recent era. Within a span of 20 years, our national game was kicked out . A league called Premier League Hockey(PHL) was started but due to some reasons the league was thrown out. Some forgeries led to suspend Indian Hockey Federation and now a new body called Hockey India is formed.
Now, coming to the world's most favorite sport- Football. India ranks 144th in FIFA rankings and 26th in Asia. Apart from 1956, we never qualified for WC finals. We were beaten by some of the small countries of Asia ( Ex: Lebanon, Singapore) and our dreams are shattered in the first round of qualifiers itself. Then we've to wait for another four years to play qualifiers. In the meantime, nothing happens. It just continues and will continue especially in India. Our neighbors Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are much below in rankings than ours. But now the situation seems to be improving. The AIFF is taking some actions to improve football. India won AFC Challenge Cup last year and have qualified for the 2011 Asian Cup for the first time since 1984, thats mainly due to our British Coach Mr.Bob Houghton. Many believe he's the right man to guide Indian football to glory.
India is having its own football league called I-league which follows the traditional football league system of other countries.But even though we have some of the oldest football clubs in the world like Mohun Bagan and East Bengal(Mohun Bagan is in FIFA's top ten clubs list :)) none of them is producing magic in football when compared with European football. Most of the stadiums remain half filled during I-league matches. But during Kolkata derbies, 50000+ fans turn out. In 2007, during Oliver kahn's farewell match, 120,000 fans turned out in the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata. And last year when Maradona visited India one lakh fans turned out @ Salt Lake and 50000 were welcoming him at the airport. Those were great scenes for a football lover. So this proves football have a reasonable amount of support in our country. If not, why should TV channels like ESPN STAR buys the Premier League rights and WC rights for a whopping amount . And why we can see many youngies wearing the likes of Rooney, Beckham, Ronaldo or Kaka in the streets.
India is having a rich fan base for football now. Especially for Premier League(EPL) and other top European leagues. All top European clubs have fans clubs in our country with Manchester United being the favorite club of India. You can question us, " Why you're supporting an European club being an Indian?". But the reason is passion and true fan-ship. Whenever you see your favorite team scoring a goal or winning a championship, you're just filled with pure joy. If they lose, it'd definitely hurt you. But I feel winning doesn't matter in football. What matters is a stunning volley that hits the top corner of the crossbar and then it comes back!! Being a die-hard Man Utd fan, I can't find any reason how I fell in love with United. May be Fergie, Old Trafford, the history, Munich disaster or the legends. But what matters is enjoying hundreds of wins, thousands of goals and some trophies.
It hurts for a football fan that while the whole world is playing football and India lives in a separate part of the world. A nation's power is calculated not only in terms of Technology and Bureaucracy, but also in terms of sports. All top powers of the world( USA, Russia, Germany, Australia etc) have respectable teams in Football.
Many football fans in India would've dreamt of India playing in WC finals. But that doesn't gonna happen in near future. It is a pity that the most who watch don't go on to take football as a profession. Football ain't developed as a profession in India. Actions should be taken at the grassroots to renovate football. Two main things are required: Investment and Publicity. Big names should come forward to find young talent and give them proper training. Everything should be done at the level zero. May be in the next 30 years everything could change.
But one thing is sure, We all love Football, and we are TRUE FANS in every manner of the word!
India even won gold medal in football in the Asian games held in 50s . Those were the days India was developing to become a great football power. But eventually it didn't happen. Then in 70s, India got craze of Hockey. India won gold after gold in hockey in Olympics. Then in 1983 Indian Mens Cricket Team won the Cricket World Cup which I believe the reason that ignited cricket fever in India. Then no other sport excelled except cricket. Hockey became worse than any other sport cause being our national game no one supported it and India won nothing in recent era. Within a span of 20 years, our national game was kicked out . A league called Premier League Hockey(PHL) was started but due to some reasons the league was thrown out. Some forgeries led to suspend Indian Hockey Federation and now a new body called Hockey India is formed.
Now, coming to the world's most favorite sport- Football. India ranks 144th in FIFA rankings and 26th in Asia. Apart from 1956, we never qualified for WC finals. We were beaten by some of the small countries of Asia ( Ex: Lebanon, Singapore) and our dreams are shattered in the first round of qualifiers itself. Then we've to wait for another four years to play qualifiers. In the meantime, nothing happens. It just continues and will continue especially in India. Our neighbors Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are much below in rankings than ours. But now the situation seems to be improving. The AIFF is taking some actions to improve football. India won AFC Challenge Cup last year and have qualified for the 2011 Asian Cup for the first time since 1984, thats mainly due to our British Coach Mr.Bob Houghton. Many believe he's the right man to guide Indian football to glory.
India is having its own football league called I-league which follows the traditional football league system of other countries.But even though we have some of the oldest football clubs in the world like Mohun Bagan and East Bengal(Mohun Bagan is in FIFA's top ten clubs list :)) none of them is producing magic in football when compared with European football. Most of the stadiums remain half filled during I-league matches. But during Kolkata derbies, 50000+ fans turn out. In 2007, during Oliver kahn's farewell match, 120,000 fans turned out in the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata. And last year when Maradona visited India one lakh fans turned out @ Salt Lake and 50000 were welcoming him at the airport. Those were great scenes for a football lover. So this proves football have a reasonable amount of support in our country. If not, why should TV channels like ESPN STAR buys the Premier League rights and WC rights for a whopping amount . And why we can see many youngies wearing the likes of Rooney, Beckham, Ronaldo or Kaka in the streets.
India is having a rich fan base for football now. Especially for Premier League(EPL) and other top European leagues. All top European clubs have fans clubs in our country with Manchester United being the favorite club of India. You can question us, " Why you're supporting an European club being an Indian?". But the reason is passion and true fan-ship. Whenever you see your favorite team scoring a goal or winning a championship, you're just filled with pure joy. If they lose, it'd definitely hurt you. But I feel winning doesn't matter in football. What matters is a stunning volley that hits the top corner of the crossbar and then it comes back!! Being a die-hard Man Utd fan, I can't find any reason how I fell in love with United. May be Fergie, Old Trafford, the history, Munich disaster or the legends. But what matters is enjoying hundreds of wins, thousands of goals and some trophies.
It hurts for a football fan that while the whole world is playing football and India lives in a separate part of the world. A nation's power is calculated not only in terms of Technology and Bureaucracy, but also in terms of sports. All top powers of the world( USA, Russia, Germany, Australia etc) have respectable teams in Football.
Many football fans in India would've dreamt of India playing in WC finals. But that doesn't gonna happen in near future. It is a pity that the most who watch don't go on to take football as a profession. Football ain't developed as a profession in India. Actions should be taken at the grassroots to renovate football. Two main things are required: Investment and Publicity. Big names should come forward to find young talent and give them proper training. Everything should be done at the level zero. May be in the next 30 years everything could change.
But one thing is sure, We all love Football, and we are TRUE FANS in every manner of the word!
Here comes Valencia
Manchester United have made their first signing of the summer after confirming a16m(approx) deal with Luis Antonio Valencia!! The 23 year old have signed a four year contract.
And, while it is not expected Valencia will represent the end of Ferguson's spending, the United boss is already tipping the South American to make a big impact.
"Antonio is a player we have admired for some time now, having spent the last two years in the Premier League with Wigan," he said.
"I am sure his pace and ability will make a significant contribution to the team."
Valencia's arrival ensures that Rooney will not be given central role.
"Joining Manchester United is a dream come true for me," he said. "I have enjoyed my time at Wigan but I am thrilled to have the chance to challenge for the biggest honours in club football here. "Playing in front of 76,000 fans alongside players like Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs will be an amazing experience. "I can't wait to get started." The Ecuadorian will get his first opportunity on a four-match tour of Asia next month, before the Red Devils head for a four-team tournament in Munich.
"I hope the fans at Wigan can understand that I am an ambitious guy and a chance like this might never come again for me," said Valencia, who will be 24 next month.
"I am happy that the club has benefited from the move financially because I owe them such a lot. I have had a great time here."
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