“Manchester United announces that David Moyes has left the club. The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.” After hours and actually days of speculations, the inevitable was officially announced. The statement above comes…

A pessimist might conclude that Alex Ferguson, the Scot who took Manchester United to great heights, would in-debt his legacy to his on-pitch stubbornness and man management. The man had been among the best tacticians in the world, and perhaps that made him a suitable pin-up for the…

The Dubai Schools Football Cup (DSFC), a community based tournament that brought together over 2,000 school children from all over Dubai, concluded yesterday after a marathon 8-week run that saw some of the best youth matches every played in the Emirate. The winners in the various categories took…

I am reading Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. On page 25, there is a reference to Ezra Pound being a pretentious nut. Pretentious nut. How simple, but yet what a description in two words. I was itching to use the two-word combination on someone. And like it was…

I normally do not get agitated by articles, which display one’s passion for a club. In fact, it just strengthens the fact that there are some very zealous fans out there who are representing nothing but their love for that beloved team or nation that they support. However,…

I was ready. Ready with some paint. Blue and red. Ready to go ballistic with the car horn, which would have been a strange occurrence on these streets, for I was part neither of a wedding, nor a club victory nor a celebration of national importance. But the…

Some things in life as we know are and will always be true. A dolphin sleeps with one eye open. Every second, Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate. The sun rises from the east and sets in the west. And a football game between Uruguay and UAE…