Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Who is bringing disrepute to Indian Hockey?

Excerpts from the newspapers these days pertaining to Indian Hockey and Hero Honda World Cup 2010:


I was not let in the stadium.
I did not get some tickets that I wanted. (Whole world can get it online, though)
I fear that this World Cup will be worst one in this history.
I want everything to go fine but certain Government officials are taking time to materialize trivial things.

Does any of these happenings justify that you hit the news headlines the next day?

My question to the same people who blame others for the wrong doing is: How are you helping the very cause for which you are claim you feel bad about?

The problem with blame game is: The outside public totally shuts off from the whole arena itself. I, as a Hockey fan, don't care that in today's goof up who was right and who was wrong.
I just say, "Oh, just forget it!"
Few laugh at them as well.
Only Hockey fraternity reads these comments and fans just wonder when, at all, this will come to and end.
But our (so called) stalwarts fail to understand this.

Will the person who was denied entry to the stadium or the one didn't get tickets or the one who says that many are bringing disrepute to the game will stand up and say that they will not do this to others?
The very basic analysis of the situation tells me, they will!

I don't care who runs Hockey in this country yesterday or today or who stands a better chance to run it tomorrow but I am sure of one thing:
The people who claim that they are being ignored at various junctures are the ones who will do the same to others some day. These are people who are actually bringing disrepute to the very game that gave them an exquisite life.

Once I was told by a taxi driver, "We should not cheat tourists. It's because of their visit to this small place that we earn our living."
It's because of the game Hockey, former players are what they are today.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.