Sportsmen are in a walk of life where they are expected to show high levels of testosterone and be "manly" on a daily basis. Given this, its very liberating to see someone like Steve Davies come out openly about being gay. It takes a lot of guts especially given the amount of sledging that goes on in the modern day game and the kinds of comments that opponents are likely to make. Good on the man!
There's been much brouhaha over India's rapid descent into one-sided football scorelines and becoming what some would term "the world's worst overseas team". And while there's some logic to the cries for wholesale changes , revamping the team , and attitude problems , much of it is over the top. About the only two sensible pieces I have read recently are by Ganguly and Siddhartha Vaidyanathan questioning the lack of spirit and fight shown by the team. What's most surprising to me is that some people seem to think that the team (which was ranked #1 till recently and won the World Cup less than a year back) is suddenly a pile of dung. This when there are still several pieces of information (numbers of course) that have either been ignored or not analysed clearly at all. So here's an attempt to balance the books a little. Consider the following - 1) India's overseas record in 5 year segments roughly over the last two decades is as below: 199
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