Written by Raj Kumar
Disclaimer: This is a humour article – Amalgamation of fiction and real life experiences. (May take it as an Auto-fiction)
Indians in the hours of dawn of July 14, 2014 got yet another reason to get boozed up and were shaking their legs to the samba beats in the streets as the FIFA World Cup came to an end. They were celebrating not because Germany had won the trophy but they could finally stop pretending to be crazy about the beautiful game and get back to their routine of following their game of Cricket.
The truth is that, some people thought it would be uncool to reveal that they were not into the ongoing world cup. It got easy for them to just log in to Twitter, Facebook and quickly memorize some of the jokes, then scanning through the match report in some random website.
Well, I guess by this time you might be aware of what I'm talking about! Yeah, pseudo-football fans (plastics – fake).
I have been with a bunch of true football fans whose number was not so obtrusive before the onset of the FIFA WC. They have been through a number of difficult situations where they have to cancel their date with their girlfriends on a Saturday evening just because their club was playing a petty game against a bottom-half team or so.(Poor souls nah!?) Pity their girlfriends though.
Football does attract a lot of those ‘fake’ fans that every true fan hates. This may be one of the reasons why Aliens don’t speak to us! Especially at this time in our country with the fantastic game of football reaching never-seen popularity, the number of these plastic fans has increased exponentially. There is no contradiction for the fact that its healthy if a sport attracts humpteen number of fans from all over the globe. But it feels awkward when a true fan gets confronted by these plastics. The most annoying of them are the ones who don’t care enough to watch the matches live get super excited if they come to know that their team has won.
All of a sudden, everyone is INTO football!
I know some football fans who started and ended watching football in a span of RECORD 30 days. In the mean time, they were busy updating their WhatsApp status with the flag emoticon of the nation they support instead of watching the game. Give them a place in Guinness Book of Records, or at least they deserve a place in Limca! Extermination, this is!
Everyone’s a Brazil fan as they have come across the name of a 22 year old guy called Neymar in the magazines and found that name too stylish for the 21st century.
Speaking at club level,
Everyone’s a United fan, but have no idea who this poor Dimitar Berbatov is.
Everyone’s a Chelsea fan since their first Champions League victory. Glory hunters!!
Everyone’s a Barcelona fan as they know who this Messi is , as he had won the Ballon D’or four times. Hmm.
Everyone’s a Real Madrid fan just because Cristiano Ronaldo is smoking hot, so is his girlfriend.
Flabbergasted by such deeds indeed!!
On the contrary, for some people, ‘football’ is life. They pick up a club in the childhood/boyhood and stick with it through thick and thin. So to all those plastics saying ‘Glory Glory Manchester United’ or ‘Hala Madrid’ or ‘Vamos Espana’ or ‘Come On Brazil’ who has never watched a single 90 minutes game of the team which they “support” (sense some sarcasm here folks! ), you guys should get a life, start watching the games of your teams and feel the adrenaline rush of the beautiful game of football, not just because it sounds cool. Period.
Will appreciate it if those plastics give up their lousy attitude and become true fans in the near future.
Well, this article is at no means to flout at you and I dedicate this to you guys on behalf of true fans out there, who stay up till 4 am to watch their club play. Here’s to the fans who watch all the games of their favorite teams irrespective of their busy schedule, not just the semi-finals and the finals.
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