It was a normal weekend until Twitter started signalling (like the harbinger of so much these days) of some activity. Soon, the social site was flooded with tweets of mockery, shame and disgust for one of the two teams from North West England fighting it out on a football pitch.
I switched on the television and it opened to an advertisement showing MS Dhoni telling his manager that he would not be able to attend an event since he wanted to watch a football match in Manchester. It was ironic and humorous, both, for the current match and the advertisement as it was the anti thesis of what the ad makers had in mind. They wanted to show the big game atmosphere, the fan’s emotion on such a red letter day and their ‘going to any length’ not to miss a Manchester Derby. Moreover, I was laughing at the thought that perhaps Dhoni in the current scenario would surely manage to wriggle out the time to attend the event and thus be spared from watching his favorite football team annihilated. ( MSD’s is actually a huge United fan)
The game, as we all know was a bit dampener if you are a Red Devil, for not only Manchester City won, but they won convincingly which was perhaps the only reason for all the hue and cry on social media sites. The managerial change was again questioned with the defeat as this makes it the third high profile game this season that United have not been able to win. Every one knew it would be tough to fill Sir Alex’s shoe as has Moyes himself stated that unlike his predecessor he may not have the time and patience but this is a evolution that had to happen. As Charles Darwin puts it “it is not the strongest of the species that will survive, not the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive.” And we all know how much responsive United have been in their history right from the Munich Disaster to the two goals in the dying minute to win Champions league in Nou camp. Here’s hoping we get back to the natural order of things as far as the EPL is concerned.
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