What is Mourinho thinking?

Chelsea had a great season last year. They won the EPL etc etc. They are also the favourites this season. But going by what their manager, Jose Mourinho is doing, they may not last for too long at the top.

1. Buying good players does not make a good team: A team is a collection of souls and not just individuals. Buying good players may make the team strong on paper, but some time or the other, it will come crashing down. A team has to gel well and there should be a feeling of oneness among the players.

2. Having too many players will backfire in the long run: All players want to play as much as possible. They are annoyed if they are made to sit on the bench for a long time. Dissent will creep in. Players would want to leave the club. The end result is that the team and the club suffers.

3. Did he not look at Real Madrid?: Real Madrid also did the same thing that Mourinho is doing. They bought the best players and built a formidable team. But they have not performed up to the expectations since a couple of years. They also lost the premiership to Barca. Their players are leaving the club (Owen, Morientes etc) ...

Okay this is my hypothesis but I feel this is what will happen in a couple of years.

F's the buzz

I have been observing the world of sport. And F is the word that is creating a lot of buzz in the world of sports. By F, I only mean that the names of 3 superstars begin with 'F'.
The three guys are (Roger) Federer, Fernando (Alonso) and (Andy) Flintoff.

These guys have have made gr8 progress in their respective sport. But basically they have given a new star to their sport.

Federer has already become the next Sampras, Alonso is poised to become the next F1 champion. And Flintoff has provided a much neede boost to an English side which has taken on the Aussies. It is a real delight to watch the matches played between the two sides.
These 3 'F's have given us a lot to cheer about.

Ugghhh...

Hi, this was my previous post regarding the sorry state of a road in Bangalore.

The current post is about another busy area in Bangalore. This is the market area.
This Sunday, I decided to meet my friends whom I had not met for a looooonnng time. So I woke up early (on a Sunday) and boarded the bus to Market where I intended to change buses.
When I came to the Market area, I could not believe that such an important area can have such a filthy bus stand.
There was filth all the way throughout the area. It was something of a dumping area competing with the bus stand. The vehicles were parked in some order though. There was no place where I could find out where I went for the bus I wanted to board. It was quite a challenge to reach the other side of the bus stand searching for the bus. This kind of apathy on the part of the authorities is appalling. But what disturbed me most was that people went about business as usual, as if they did not care or they did not have an alternative.