Monday, December 19, 2005

(is it) The end of the world

I never thought i would actually say this, but football has become "boring and meaningless".Due to a certain rich oligarch, who happened to buy a football club because he was running out of things to buy.Its horrible when you see a club scoring a goal - sometimes two, and then defending for an entire quarter, and even 2 quarters of an hour.And this has been happening week after week, and doesn't look as if its going to end.

Winning is important, and possibly the only thing that occupies the mind of top rung managers, but are we as fans paying the price to see our clubs win.Football has actally become so monotonous that even watching the english cricket team play sounds interesting, relatively.

I'm not entirely happy with the fact that Alonso will be joining us (McLaren) in 2007.In F1 you can never have two world champions, and with that you can't have two contenders in the same team.For me Kimi is the man, and i believe that it'll be him who will leave come 2007.

It was a delight to hear the Steve Slater say the phrase "The cold blue eyes of Mika Hakkinen", for one of the most wonderfully said statements in sports commentary (Eddy will agree).After Mika left came Kimi, same cold blue eyes, ruthless in approach and brilliant behind the wheel, it was as close to a Mika reincarnate we got, and i was extremely happy with that.

Alonso is a great driver, a superb champion but he doesn't have the raw, ruthless personality that i was used to in Mika, and frankly i'll find it extremely difficult to see him, and not Kimi as the frontline driver for us.Either of Kimi and Alonso won't agree to be wingman and if they do it'll be an insult to a fantastic sport.Football already has become "boring and meaningless" at times, it would be very dissappointing to see the same happening to F1.

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