Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Will the real slim KPS Gill please step down?

Hockey died in India this day without any of us even shedding a tear for it. The day will come soon when we can only tell our future generations that there were greats such as Dhyan Chand and Balbir Singh who played for India. That there were great Indian players who would have made the best hockey teams in the world purely on the strength of their ability and their wizardry on the field and not as we saw yesterday through a sleight of hand. The shimmy and the feint on the field evoked magic when these players were on song. Sadly the reverse flicks and the dribbles too often have been happening off the field detracting from the performance on it. What else can you say about Jothikumaran who single handedly drag flicked Indian hockey into an abyss from which it is unlikely to see the light of the day? Alas what can we say about Mr.Gill's stint at the helm of Indian hockey other than to liken it to Nero fiddling while Rome burnt? It is time we showed all the office bearers of the IHF the red card for their incompetence

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Unlike Nero fiddling while Rome burnt, Gill himself burned the Indian hockey dreams to ashes and watched with glee.
-Naveen.