Football + Fifa + Manchester United

Football - the art of dribbling, tackling , defending, attacking, blocking, scoring and what not.. what a game.. Superb... I love football like nothing else in this world. So how it started? well, Back in school we used to play football on football cum cricket field. I did not know anything other than couple of rules, I used to run along all the players and kick the ball whenever chance was there. Though I never really scored any important goal, neither saved yet playing was a bliss full experience. Then slowly, I lost touch with game, for next two years I didn't play at all.

After that I bought a computer. Fifa 05 was one of the first things I installed on my computer and then started "play, play and play". I played like crazy, mad fella. At that time, Utd wasn't in top form, Chelsea were winning crowns, but I had faith in Utd and I often played using Utd. I knew more and more about club and slowly started following EPL. In 2006 - 2007 season, United started campaign in flamboyant way. Utd went on winning and building stronger chances of taking crown. Parallely, I started playing FIFA 06. I got bored of the game and went back to FIFA 05, the free flowing first touch football (and also I found it difficult to score goals in 06 compared to 05). I slowly got accustomed to playing FIFA - I played FIFA 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 (now u can believe that I played like crazy, mad fella).

Its not just on PC, I actually played on fields also. During my college days I used to play with wingies. Now, I knew more than a couple of rules but running all around field was as much there as it was during school days. I wasn't the best player, in fact, I was like the worst, yet I was passionate about it (how silly, but thats me) and I played a lot.

Now I want to go a bit off track.. Football, let it be playing on field, watching live on TV or playing on PC, it always was a great experience, but was that all ? No. I started liking movies who featured football. Goal (Chasing the dream, Living the dream) are one of my favourite movies. I started finding Football related news on Newspapers, I started going to goal.com and what not ?

Off late, I realised, I am not a football fan, I am more of a Manchester Utd fan. To me, ManUtd represents great football. With all due respect to players like Lionell Messi, Kaka, Ronaldinho, Villa etc, and their teams, I really do not find those teams attractive. For me, ManUtd is best. When Patrice Evra runs with ball, When Rio Ferdinand stands solid in defence, When Nemenja Vidic gives headache to opposition forwards, When Ji Sung Park works all around field, When Hargo (injured for time being :( ) shows true footballing art, When Carrick makes those brilliant moves, When Scholes gives life to game, When Tevez surprises all with his goals, When VDS makes those brilliant saves, When Nani performs that excellent post goal celebration, When Anderson tackles hard, When Rooney strikes hell outta opposition goalie, When Christiano Ronaldo scores goals and of all, when SAF prepares brilliant team after team. Go on winning United.

lol, with this I will end this post, this is not quite what I intended in beginning, but, who cares !!

Off late, my passion for Utd games is also fading away, but it will take forever to disappear completely.