Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Adieu Mr.Woolmer!!!

The death of Bob Woolmer, coach of Pakistam Cricket team, is being considered suspicious by the investigating officers of Jamaican police. This is quite an unfortunate end to one of the most respected coaches in cricket world. I hate to think that some one has killed him because Pakistan crashed out of this world cup, after all this is only a sport, something which should be more of a timepass.

Even though my heart wants to think that his death was because of some natural cause, the stories coming in the media are saying otherwise. I am sure he was a strong person and is not meek enough to commit suicide. So the remaining option is that he was murdered, which is sending shivers down my spine!


He was merely a professional coach who was doing his job with utmost sincierity. If some mad cricket fan has committed this crime, then that is the worst thing ever to have happened in a sports field...


I was quite shocked when I heard that a fan of Steffi Graf stabbed Monica Seles. Another such instance was the death of Andreas Escobar, the Colombian footballer who was shot dead because he scored a self goal which lead to the ouster of Colombia from football world cup.

If not to this extend, I heard people wrecking havoc in Mahendra Dhoni's house and all. I don't think true lovers of sport can resort to such acts of vandalism. Burning effigies and all are fine, but hurting the families of these sportmen are unpardonable. As Rahul Dravid rightly pointed out, they do have their right to live peacefully in this country.

I just pray to god to give sense to these people to understand that sports is meant for fun and it is nothing more than that. I am really sorry for Bob Woolmer. May his soul rest in peace!!!


4 comments:

persona said...

gone are those days when sports were jst timepass!! nobody earns a million dollar for timepass! they commercialised it now they paying for it!!i heard the chances of hand of bookies behind the death is more than that of a fan! sad this game has taken such a ugly turn! money attracts death !!


watever said and done ! it hasnt grown to such a extend to take life or hurt someones family !but its high time to check the growth and importance of sports in society!
woolmer is jst a victim the real sufferers are people of the third world country!!
may his soul and future of sport rest in peace

Arun Jose Francis said...

Yeah, thats true! Since there is a lot of money involved in Sports, it has naturally fallen into the hands of some greedy people who will do anything for money...

But I did not understand the part of people of 3rd world countries suffering? Is it because a lot of time is wasted by those people following sports where matches are fixed?

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