I always drew the parallel between the passion England have for football (passion is too mild a word perhaps) and how Indians feel about cricket. That was a reasonable no-brainer to deduce. Dileep Premachandran here takes that further, and provides a wonderful point of view - the England football team is in fact very similar to the Indian cricket team. His arguments are persuasive - hanging of the hat on one or two matches (India V Aus 2001, Eng V Germany in Munich), 1 World Cup win last century each, focus on megastars (Tendulkar/Dravid, Gerrard/Rooney), Chappell/Eriksson, and more recently John Terry and Dravid.
Beautiful, isn't it? In fact the one major difference I see here is that atleast English fans have one of the world's best domestic leagues, where they get quality football every week, whereas us poor Indian fans just get to watch one team battle it out. A lesson there for all concerned?
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