I Shoot and I Score !
Come Wednesday and I feel a rejuvenated self !
Why you may ask, and the simple reason to this is because I play football. Yeah, and I absolutely love it. The last time I played football with so much enthusiasm (or for that matter the last time I played football) was when I was in college, and that’s like 3 years ago.
Once I started working, I have never really got a chance to play football either due to the lack of time or due to the lack of enough playing members. Back in 2004, when I was in India, work was pretty intense and I could not spare much time for football or other sports. When I moved to Dubai, I had some time, but no place(and people) to play ! The closest I have got to actually playing football in these past 3 years is on my laptop ! (huge fan of EA Sports FIFA series)
Well, that is not the case now. Moving to London, has been a welcome change for more than just a few reasons and getting to play football is surely in that list. I now scoot back home early each Wednesday and then play five-a-side football from 8pm to 9pm. (sometimes more!)
We play on smaller turfs, with 5 or 6 players in a team and it is awesome fun ! The best part is the scorelines .. our last scoreline read 17-8 (we won, yippee!) I play at this place called PowerLeague in Norbury and its amazing to see so many other teams playing around you. I could easily spend a whole day there.
Check out the place I play on Google Earth :
Commentary : How did I come up with the Title for this Post?
Well, the title comes from a parody called ‘Welcome to India’ by two wickedly funny guys - Vikram MC and Ludakrishna. There is this bit in the song when they mention playing carrom and one of them says, ‘I shoot and I score’. Well, each time I scored (and I scored more than 5 times in the last game) this ‘I shoot and I score’ bit kept buzzing in my head. Not that I scored each time I shied at the (small) goal, but still a decent analogy. For those of you, who have heard the parody, you are in for a funny treat (more so if you are a Desi)
Checkout ‘Welcome to India’ :
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