Miss. Know-it-all

“Orange I think is the ‘in’ colour for interiors”
“Why?”
“Haven’t you seen? It’s orange in Coffee Beanz, its orange at Car Palace and it’s orange over here too.”
“Oh I see.”

We were sitting at Ambrosia, Kesevadasapuram. She had an opinion on everything. She was so at school too. After four years of technical education in civil engineering she had taken up a software job in Technopark, Trivandrum.

Now five years after school, I run into her when I drop in for my weekly (?) pastry.
We were trying to make up a conversation when we had exhausted our college tales.

“Don’t you think Cristiano Ronaldo is one helluva footballer?”
“Why?”
“Boy he looks cool and he’s talented too.”
“Oh I see.”

Nobody can take credit away from Cristiano Ronaldo for his amazing ball skills and sensational solo runs that often eat up the length of the field. But taking a closer look as to how many of them have ended in the opponent’s nets leaves one disappointed.I would rather it’s a case of a contorted attitude in a person with immense talent and potential.Take for example the 2006 FIFA World Cup. How many goals were scored off his passes?
None!
Cristiano Ronaldo often forgets that soccer is a team game and the ultimate objective is to score goals. I agree with those who are of the view that if you play the game, then play beautiful - Joga Bonita! But then I guess all the sheen is lost if you are dispossessed often in your solo runs or if you cap a spectacular run with a mispass. I would watch a 'defensive' match rather than a match with more than four fruitless 'runs' by Cristiano Ronaldo.All this was amply illustrated in the Portugal-Germany third place match where Ronaldo after a zigzag run made a back pass without looking in that direction which was a bit too long for the defender, and Germany almost made a goal out of that pathetic piece of 'skills'.

If you check the efficiency quotient of the player on the field and value it more than the 'wow' effect that he brings, Ronaldo would never make it to your list of favourite players.

“Did they actually drop Sreesanth?”
“Yeah”
“Don’t you think that’s really bad coz he did actually play well on the West Indies tour??”
“Yeah but they took RP Singh in his stead on the grounds that the guy was more economic than Sreesanth??”
“Economic? What does that mean??”
I was tempted to pull a fast one on Miss. Know-it-all.
“Well that means that the BCCI needs to spend much less money with RP Singh on the team?”
“Why?”
“You know primarily coz Sreesanth is a mallu who eats a lot of non-veg food whereas RP Singh is a veggie thereby the Board stands to save a lot of money.”
“Oh really...”

PS: Well I was lazy to do something original for my first write-up so I’ve used some old stuff. My sincere apologies if you have already read this.