Waamax

There are few things that are pleasure to behold. One of them being Rahul Dravid playing his square cut.

Plenty of time we hear about teams being one man team. No matter how much you disagree, in most circumstances it does. I hate to say the same for my favorite team Liverpool. Are they the one man team? Well they have proved this season in plenty of occasions that they can in fact thrive even without the presence of talismanic captain Stephen Gerrard, but still the presence of him is immense. The stats never lie.

2008/2009 has been one of the seasons for Gerrard that was disrupted with injuries but still the stats are amazing.Liverpool scored 107 goals during the 2008/2009 campaign and Gerrard has himself either scored or directly assisted 41 of them. Unbelievable stats. He was involved in almost half the goals the team scored all season. That’s what I called an influence.

Back to the one man team. I don’t know any metrics to measure if any team is one man team or not. But it is a fact that teams are more reliant on someone more. Take Liverpool without Steven Gerrard, Manchester united without Christano Ronaldo, Arsenal without Cesc Fabregas, Chelsea without Lampard and they are not just the team without these superstars. They matter more. Their presence and individual brilliance matter to the team performance.

Everybody knows that every team has its unsung heroes but they still fall sort without their superstars.

Honestly I have been observing this for quite a while now. Facebook being exponentially popular by the day, it’s inevitable that nothing gets untouched and football is no exception. This trend has happened in almost all the times (pre & post football games) and is more prominent during the big games.

Here’s what I observed about the facebook status changes according to the football games:

- 6; no of people on the hike
- 3; no of cameras we took
- 25; minutes it took us to get Lubhu bazar from Lagankhel
- 18; samosas we ate at Lubhu after the hike
- 5; leeches got me on the way
- 6; no of times i slipped on the rain affected muddy trail
- 4; no of shortcuts we took on our way up
- 2.5; hours we took to reach the peak
- 6; Wai Wai noodles; the only food we had during our hike

1 Great “Lakure Bhanjyang Hike”

okay. Let the pictures do the talking.