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These boring afternoons at home are driving me nuts. I generally watch a lot of movies to beat this boredom. But now the activity of watching movies itself has become boring. So i am spending a lot of time in Connemara public library in Chennai.

I walk in to the library in the afternoon and start reading some random book on some random topic. Most of the tym the random topic being football. I was reading a book which had columns by a Bengali columnist(I am forgetting to recollect the name here) . He was drawing parallels between Soccer the sport and Socialism. He seems to argue that the U.S,a capitalist nation in all respects, rejects soccer.He says it is a very apparent upshot of ppl being very non-socialistic.

It s a fact worth noting that soccer is the 84Th most famous sport in the U.S . In 1998 ,when the U.S hosted the FIFA World Cup no English channel was broadcasting football in the U.S. The citizens of the U.S-if they so desired- had to follow it in Spanish channels. The number of Bengali viewers of the World Cup was more than the number of American viewers.
Strange facts.eh??!!

Being aligned towards the left on many issues in politics, i was against their stand in the Indo-US Nuclear deal. But after going through some of the works of the above mentioned columnist i whole-heatedly support the Left's stand.

The concept of use of Nuclear energy for power generation is not entirely a novel concept for India . It has been in the minds of Raja Ra manna when he pioneered India into conducting her first first nuclear test. The chairmen of AEC make it a point that they set of target of "x0000"MW within ten years from the second they release this statement. They all lean heavily on the bad memory power of the Indian public. None of these promises have ever been fulfilled.
This is because going closer to set targets is not viable.Co-operation with the U.S wont make the situation any better.

It is also worth noting that about 67% of the money spent by GoI on research and development finds its way to Nuclear research which has helped India to produce a few weapons of Mass destruction and nothing more to aid the countries power situation or for any civil reasons. So the concentration on this must be shifted to something more viable and more useful to the Indian in the present context.India should may be concentrate more on other sources of energy closer to nature and invest money on it by allocating lesser money to nuclear research.

EPL so far...

Three months have passed since the new EPL season kicked off. These are my reflections on the season so far based on my observations in the past three months.

ARSENAL:
Capitalising on a bad start from their other three competitors for the title, Arsenal went off to a flyer to lead the league table. Their direct passing and aggressive style of play multiplied by their phenomenal midfield display are bearing desirable results surprising football pundits and fans alike.

While there own form has been good and their style of play captivating, there ll be no denying the fact that Arsenal have had the easiest fixtures to kick start the season among the big four.

CHELSEA:
Its been a turbulent season so far for the blues not the least because they lost Jose Mourinho, a man to whom the current Chelsea strength is to be attributed. Their new manager
Avram Grant apparently was not able to fill mourinho's shoes. Struggling to get his tactics rite went on a four match without-a-win streak.This is something that a side challenging for the EPL cannot afford.

Drogba has been their chief source of goals in whose absence the team more or less does not threaten the goal. Shevchenko is these days warming the bench and this seems to have worked wonders for the side. Considering that the away trips to Liverpool and Old Tr afford are over the situation at Chelsea can only get better.


LIVERPOOL:
One of the two undefeated teams in the EPL. But more than the teams players it was lady luck that played a significant roles in helping them to achieve that feat. Rafa's policy of squad rotation has visibly not worked. This had a very powerful hand in Liverpool's poor European showing. But one thing is going rite in Liverpool's way Torres seems to combine well with Dirk Kuyt.

If eliminated out of Europe in the group stages itself, and Rafa gets his best 11 on the field my money ll be on Liverpool to win the title.

MAN UTD:
A disastrous start to the season saw the champs go without a win in the first three matches of the season. Then a string of 1-0 wins made Utd look small and unworthy of title challenge. But just when you abandon all hope the red devils bounce back with great intensity.
This was precisely wat happened and Utd made amends to their terrible performance at the start of the season by scoring 16 goals in the last 4 matches.

Tevez and Anderson who were only physically present entities at the start of the season have now improved a lot, with Anderson playin like a left-footed Fabregas. Tevez is combining well with Rooney which is a good sign for Utd. But their ultimate test is at the Emirates next week.With the team lookin in good shape, it s become good ole days with Arsenal and Man Utd gunning for the title.