“The time came to raise our united heads with pride and honor, demanding respect from those who ever doubted….Shameless, we ran away!!!”
“A step forward and ten steps back“ can be best described as the fast forward story of the destruction and turmoil in Kashmir since the day I breathed my first breath(unfortunately the day I was born…30 sep 1989….the day the whole city finally united for its own destruction, burning down their own homes for the sake of Shabir Shah, a rebel leader…what a great cause…!!!) and at the Bakshi stadium it was a déjà-vu situation…
Almost an hour into the dream match, all tied up at 0-0…The biggest game in the Santosh Trophy tournament so far…A high voltage match between the holders Punjab and the highly spirited Home team…The first half most definitely belonged to the team in whote,the home team, playing with the backing of big and VOCAL home support…Attacking the Punjab defence time and again…Chance after chance…Not exactly “CHAMPAGNE-FOOTBALL” but not much far away from the kind of football, champions are made of…The defending champions needed all the defence they had in order to defend what they loved the most, their clean sheet record…and they somehow managed to keep a clean sheet in the first half…Ishfaq,Adil and Rohit pushed by the crowd, were pressing the Punjab defence with super fluency and brilliant counter attacking moves…Punjab rarely had any possession of the ball and it was looking like we finally have got a team which could give the full house crowd, a reason to raise their voices in unison and celebrate their throats out…Such a wonderful mix of the united Kashmir in the crowd…the oldies in their khan dresses…the Sikhs in their turbans…few pundits with their renowned wits!…..the ever so vocal youth with enough stamina to shout their way into the match….Quite rightly as the press had put it, ”J&K team play with 12 players, 11 on the pitch and 12th in the stands…!”…the spirit which the home team had shown, brought the 12th man into play , “defending champions really never knew that a valley could echo so loudly…!!!”
So it was JK in the driving seat with almost half an hour left in the match…”Joga-Bonita” (playing football with a smile on the face) and the united crowd gave enough reasons to put a smile on the ‘fair’ faces of JK players!!!…Punjab absorbing all the pressure from the players and the crowd…Really what a success story, no matter even if we lose now but we have won all the hearts by showing the world, united we STILL stand to support what we love…a revival of footy back in the valley…a revival of united voices back in the valley….what a reason to celebrate…
But there had to be an intervention (as always)…No, not DIVINE…In fact, as expected in my mother land…It had to be a ‘DEMONIC’ intervention….!!!(as always)
Suddenly the photo journalists could be seen shouting and fighting with some JKFA officials (who are really worthy of being appreciated for conducting such a big tournament with such huge media coverage… a real successful effort)…but but but…
”the demon is too timid to come infront of GOD’s human…and too evil to allow the things go in God’s favor without a fight…Demon always searches for the weakest of the prey… (always a human)….the demon hiding some where in the crowd…”
Raisng slogans in between the already high voltage, fast paced match…what a mess…!!! And amidst all the chaos Punjab score……….a fantastic long ranger but can be equally considered as a goal keeping error…and take my words on that…I have watched enough football to say, that the shot was perfectly savable and it can be considered a goal keeping howler by the new goalie…(had the crowd given the given the team whole match to play, the way we were playing suggests that we could have esily equalised and who knows maybe gone onto win the match)
But who cares…the crowd are now really on their feet...Demon ready to rumble
“defending champions really never knew that a valley could echo so loudly…”
“A step forward and ten steps back“ can be best described as the fast forward story of the destruction and turmoil in Kashmir since the day I breathed my first breath(unfortunately the day I was born…30 sep 1989….the day the whole city finally united for its own destruction, burning down their own homes for the sake of Shabir Shah, a rebel leader…what a great cause…!!!) and at the Bakshi stadium it was a déjà-vu situation…
Almost an hour into the dream match, all tied up at 0-0…The biggest game in the Santosh Trophy tournament so far…A high voltage match between the holders Punjab and the highly spirited Home team…The first half most definitely belonged to the team in whote,the home team, playing with the backing of big and VOCAL home support…Attacking the Punjab defence time and again…Chance after chance…Not exactly “CHAMPAGNE-FOOTBALL” but not much far away from the kind of football, champions are made of…The defending champions needed all the defence they had in order to defend what they loved the most, their clean sheet record…and they somehow managed to keep a clean sheet in the first half…Ishfaq,Adil and Rohit pushed by the crowd, were pressing the Punjab defence with super fluency and brilliant counter attacking moves…Punjab rarely had any possession of the ball and it was looking like we finally have got a team which could give the full house crowd, a reason to raise their voices in unison and celebrate their throats out…Such a wonderful mix of the united Kashmir in the crowd…the oldies in their khan dresses…the Sikhs in their turbans…few pundits with their renowned wits!…..the ever so vocal youth with enough stamina to shout their way into the match….Quite rightly as the press had put it, ”J&K team play with 12 players, 11 on the pitch and 12th in the stands…!”…the spirit which the home team had shown, brought the 12th man into play , “defending champions really never knew that a valley could echo so loudly…!!!”
So it was JK in the driving seat with almost half an hour left in the match…”Joga-Bonita” (playing football with a smile on the face) and the united crowd gave enough reasons to put a smile on the ‘fair’ faces of JK players!!!…Punjab absorbing all the pressure from the players and the crowd…Really what a success story, no matter even if we lose now but we have won all the hearts by showing the world, united we STILL stand to support what we love…a revival of footy back in the valley…a revival of united voices back in the valley….what a reason to celebrate…
But there had to be an intervention (as always)…No, not DIVINE…In fact, as expected in my mother land…It had to be a ‘DEMONIC’ intervention….!!!(as always)
Suddenly the photo journalists could be seen shouting and fighting with some JKFA officials (who are really worthy of being appreciated for conducting such a big tournament with such huge media coverage… a real successful effort)…but but but…
”the demon is too timid to come infront of GOD’s human…and too evil to allow the things go in God’s favor without a fight…Demon always searches for the weakest of the prey… (always a human)….the demon hiding some where in the crowd…”
Raisng slogans in between the already high voltage, fast paced match…what a mess…!!! And amidst all the chaos Punjab score……….a fantastic long ranger but can be equally considered as a goal keeping error…and take my words on that…I have watched enough football to say, that the shot was perfectly savable and it can be considered a goal keeping howler by the new goalie…(had the crowd given the given the team whole match to play, the way we were playing suggests that we could have esily equalised and who knows maybe gone onto win the match)
But who cares…the crowd are now really on their feet...Demon ready to rumble
“defending champions really never knew that a valley could echo so loudly…”
to be continued…
2 comments:
u might have seen a lot of football but u r wrong in saying that the EXPERIENCED 9 yes experienced) JK golie could have saved that...hes no 6'6 goalie..
and u have tried to prove that the actions of the crowd as smthing gud...
but dude u r totally confused
they ruined the name of JK
most of ur posts r confused....
u dont know what ur religion is and u dont seem to know ur football....
u could do better
i hope u improve
take care
zameer ahmad ahangar
TBS
Mr.Zameer...well yes, dude u r quite right in saying that the JK goalie is no 6'6 goalie...maybe the kind of football I am talking about is absolutely top level footie where a 5'10 goalie can jump higher than a 6'6goalie...!!!...but I think u must be knowing one very famous goalie once famously said,"99% times the long range goals are perfectly savable but the striker celebrates so hard that nobody ever gets to know it...!!!"
And well,when did I encourage crowds action???...dude i think u r not getting my style of writing..what i mean to say is that, who's the crowd??,....it's WE..we are part of the crowd....
well confusing...yea i love it..that's my way of writing, my OR!G!NAL way of wtriting the blogs..n my blogs are written with a very particualr audience in mind...Dude that's my way..
dude I know my religion pretty well n cuming to footie, I have practiced with most of the players in Jk team so I know them personally...their talents and abilities....
but the only point where I can't promise u anything is about improving....sorry dude I don't seem to improve and my writing will only degrade by the day....
hope u can bear that...!!!
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