If you follow English soccer, football rather, you must be aware of the "club vs country" debates that rages every time the English national team under performs, which btw makes it sort of an annual debate. Now i feel Indians are going to have the taste of the debate big time with the start of IPL.
Also on a serious track, some of the celebrations was off putting for me, its alright for Shahrukh to cheer Mccullum hitting Zaheer as he is the owner, but the odd thing was that nobody mentions the of shifting loyalty from country to club and the implicit transition. It is as if the official policy of the event organisers particularly the commentators is to not to comment on the contradiction and just hope that by pretending that strong Club loyalties exist and behaving as such will make the crowd see it that way. Well i am not convinced and find it difficult to accept that i will ever cheer Zaheer getting hit for a six by Mccullum.
Also for a bit of humorous take, see my cricket fanatic friend and perennial commenter Vibhash's post
you have hit the nail on its head...real challenge will start once events passes a week or so. initial excitement regarding the event would have died down so the explosives hypes. then we will see how interesting we find it since there is no driving force to make me feel passionate in the match which is a must for any game lover....i doubt if india will ever see such strong club loyalities as in EPL.
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