Comments on: City of shame http://writeside.net/sport/cricket/city-of-shame Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: deb http://writeside.net/sport/cricket/city-of-shame/comment-page-1#comment-770 deb Fri, 05 May 2006 23:17:00 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=30#comment-770 I agree. The behaviour of the crowds and certain people at an international venue like Calcutta is definitely a shame, and should be criticised harshly. but pardon me for saying that the attitude of just a few parts of the article and a few of the comments are odd...no funny too. mayb its just me, but i get the feeling u r sometimes venting at a city on a whole, not only bcos of very deserving reasons, but bcos u do not like calcuttans (west bengal??) on a whole. "Calcutta has a reputation of pettiness and petulance when it doesn’t have its way." in sport? or as a whole? i don't understand how u can make such an overwhleming judgement. but maybe this thing is normal in india. oh well. just my opinion. ps: "myopic race"?? that made me laff, rlly!! people from calcutta are of the same race as the rest of india if i am not mistaken? lols I agree. The behaviour of the crowds and certain people at an international venue like Calcutta is definitely a shame, and should be criticised harshly.
but pardon me for saying that the attitude of just a few parts of the article and a few of the comments are odd…no funny too.
mayb its just me, but i get the feeling u r sometimes venting at a city on a whole, not only bcos of very deserving reasons, but bcos u do not like calcuttans (west bengal??) on a whole.
“Calcutta has a reputation of pettiness and petulance when it doesn’t have its way.” in sport? or as a whole? i don’t understand how u can make such an overwhleming judgement.
but maybe this thing is normal in india. oh well. just my opinion.

ps: “myopic race”?? that made me laff, rlly!! people from calcutta are of the same race as the rest of india if i am not mistaken? lols

]]> By: Payal http://writeside.net/sport/cricket/city-of-shame/comment-page-1#comment-116 Payal Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:35:41 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=30#comment-116 All I can say is, if there was ever any crowd deserving of that finger, it's Eden Gardens! All I can say is, if there was ever any crowd deserving of that finger, it’s Eden Gardens!

]]> By: Nimish http://writeside.net/sport/cricket/city-of-shame/comment-page-1#comment-115 Nimish Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:45:54 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=30#comment-115 What surprises me is how the Eden Gardens' spectators are able to get away just about everything. I mean, just take a look at that track record, and yet has the city ever been docked a match? In English football, clubs are forced to play in empty stadia if their fans misbehave - Liverpool were even banned (unfairly I still believe) from Europe for almost a decade because of their fans' behaviour at Heysel. Well, in spite of what happened in the 1996 World Cup, I will bet a fair penny that when India next hosts a World Cup, Calcutta will get prime matches and yes, if India does not do well, there will be hell to answer. After all, Jaggu Uncle is from Cal! What surprises me is how the Eden Gardens’ spectators are able to get away just about everything. I mean, just take a look at that track record, and yet has the city ever been docked a match? In English football, clubs are forced to play in empty stadia if their fans misbehave – Liverpool were even banned (unfairly I still believe) from Europe for almost a decade because of their fans’ behaviour at Heysel. Well, in spite of what happened in the 1996 World Cup, I will bet a fair penny that when India next hosts a World Cup, Calcutta will get prime matches and yes, if India does not do well, there will be hell to answer. After all, Jaggu Uncle is from Cal!

]]> By: Proteeti http://writeside.net/sport/cricket/city-of-shame/comment-page-1#comment-114 Proteeti Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:37:55 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=30#comment-114 I agree with you completely. I was in college in Calcutta when the 1996 incident took place, and witnessed it all on television. While a lot of us considered the incident shameful, a sizeable proportion actually defended the act, or dismissed it by labelling it an act of 'hooliganism'. Their 'intellectual' status notwithstanding, Calcuttans have shown time and again that they're this myopic race for whom the term 'fair play' holds no import. Though I have to say that irritating as the Cal crowd undoubtedly was, Greg Chappell could very well have refrained from sticking out his middle finger. I agree with you completely. I was in college in Calcutta when the 1996 incident took place, and witnessed it all on television. While a lot of us considered the incident shameful, a sizeable proportion actually defended the act, or dismissed it by labelling it an act of ‘hooliganism’. Their ‘intellectual’ status notwithstanding, Calcuttans have shown time and again that they’re this myopic race for whom the term ‘fair play’ holds no import. Though I have to say that irritating as the Cal crowd undoubtedly was, Greg Chappell could very well have refrained from sticking out his middle finger.

]]> By: Hathirpithi http://writeside.net/sport/cricket/city-of-shame/comment-page-1#comment-113 Hathirpithi Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:44:25 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=30#comment-113 "As shallow as a puddle in a pothole"--I liked that. Maybe West bengal should just have a cricket team that plays against the rest of the world and is captained by Ganguly till he retires at the age of 60. Or maybe 70. Worth a thought for Eden Garden spectators. “As shallow as a puddle in a pothole”–I liked that.
Maybe West bengal should just have a cricket team that plays against the rest of the world and is captained by Ganguly till he retires at the age of 60. Or maybe 70. Worth a thought for Eden Garden spectators.

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