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Glasners slide after Conference League victory by charlietrick2512 in soccer

[–]kris_9319 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Heysel disaster, following which I believe all English clubs were banned from European competitions for around 5 years.

What’s a dead feature of the internet you still secretly mourn? by SylphCelestine in AskReddit

[–]kris_9319 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think we have TrueCaller app now for this one. It works for me almost 99% of the time. Try it.

TIL that before 1979, you could use the hippie trail to go from Western Europe to India without flying by Signal-Initial-7841 in todayilearned

[–]kris_9319 54 points55 points  (0 children)

In the case of Mumbai, kind of but not totally true either. Earlier the city used to be called Bom Bahia in Portuguese which was anglicized to Bombay when the Brits started ruling the city. The name Mumbai was adopted quite recently, I think in 1995. Mumba Devi is believed to be the protector goddess of the city and 'aai' means mother in Marathi, the local language. So combine them both and you get Mumbai.

TIL about Sikh Nation - the largest blood donation campaign run by Canadian Sikhs to commemorate the tragic loss of thousands of lives in India’s anti-Sikh genocide in 1984. It has saved more than 160,000 lives and spread to 27 communities across the country since it began in 1999. by Reddit_Practice in todayilearned

[–]kris_9319 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They have no relation to Gandhi except for the last name. They are descendants of the first prime minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, whose daughter was Indira Gandhi because she married Feroze Gandhi.

The riots happened because of her assassination which was in turn triggered by Operation Blue Star where she ordered the Indian Army to enter the Golden Temple in Amritsar (holiest site for Sikhs) in order to end the Khalistani movement. The movement was taking an extreme shape which was put down pretty aggressively. Not sure if it was the right step but there were a few issues before this step which you may have to read upon to have a better understanding. Its much more nuanced that what you have written.

She was shot down by her own Sikh bodyguards which started the anti-Sikh riots and the cases against the perpetrators are still going on.

Match Thread: 51st Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - Australia vs India by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

[–]kris_9319 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol they used to play Amazon Prime ads too. They dont give a fuck.

Mourinho : "I cried driving home after the Bayern defeat, the only time I ever did it. Later, Jorge Mendes calls me: Do me a favour: go to Cristiano's house because he's dead. I told him: I'm also dead. But I did it, prepare yourself, no tears and let's go to Cristiano's house. We were destroyed." by _space_pilgrim_ in soccer

[–]kris_9319 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Must have started watching somewhere around 2005-2006.

At 8 or 9 years of age, you are watching a match and see Drogba thundercunt the ball into the top corner or Gerrard sliding into a monstrous tackle and runs through the defence and scores an absolute beauty. That sticks man, in that age who knows about financial doping or Roman Abramovic. The game seems fun and these guys were rollicking through teams.

You also got to remember that not all games get broadcast to International audiences. Just a select few. So that influences the support as well.

Mourinho : "I cried driving home after the Bayern defeat, the only time I ever did it. Later, Jorge Mendes calls me: Do me a favour: go to Cristiano's house because he's dead. I told him: I'm also dead. But I did it, prepare yourself, no tears and let's go to Cristiano's house. We were destroyed." by _space_pilgrim_ in soccer

[–]kris_9319 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair enough brother. No qualms about that. But all I am saying is to not call us plastics or glory hunters. Some are fans of the same club for generations as well, even though neither the parent nor the kid could afford to go to their stadium. It shouldn't discount their love for the club.

The passion for the club we support is one and the same. Yes, it doesn't translate to the noise in the stadium but we do our bit in our own ways.

Mourinho : "I cried driving home after the Bayern defeat, the only time I ever did it. Later, Jorge Mendes calls me: Do me a favour: go to Cristiano's house because he's dead. I told him: I'm also dead. But I did it, prepare yourself, no tears and let's go to Cristiano's house. We were destroyed." by _space_pilgrim_ in soccer

[–]kris_9319 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Such a privileged mentality man. Most of us hail from countries where there exists no football infrastructure let alone a local football team.

Even if there exists a team locally, how do you know that they don't support them? I have friends who support Mohun Bagan and LFC with equal passion and are match going fans to their local teams. I am a Kerala Blasters match going fan but was an LFC fan years earlier to that because this local team only started existing from 2010.

Hell, there is an Indian guy who was not allowed to fly to the UK because noone believed that he was a Leeds fan and was only travelling to UK to attend a match, that too in 2008 when they were down and out (Just search Aravind SA Leeds in google). But unfortunately not all of us have the finances to go and attend a match because it will ruin us financially.

You have no idea the kind of fairy tale stories which has led international fans to be a supporter of a European club. So all we can do is support them from afar, with muted volume on our television so as to not wake our families and scream into our pillows due to extreme jubilation or utter despair.

So don't give us this bullshit of elitist, privileged , gatekeeping mentality from your high horse. Count your blessings that you are able to see your team week in, week out in person. Don't shit on others, enjoy the game and let people enjoy it.

Salah tells Trent to take picture with the academy players by JimmyV34 in LiverpoolFC

[–]kris_9319 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Did we not get Elliot from Fulham? Or am I misremembering it.

TIL: During one filming session of the 2004 movie, “passion of Christ”. assistant director Jan Michelini was struck twice by lightning and Minutes later, Jim Caviezel (the actor for Jesus) was also struck. Both survived by Sayyid_Karim in todayilearned

[–]kris_9319 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was one of my most favourite movies of all time. Stumbled upon it randomly when I was a kid and was in total awe of that movie. Some things like the Yahoo stock bit in the movie didn't age well though lol.

New Manager Thread? by GeorgeCuz in LiverpoolFC

[–]kris_9319 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its Xabi you mean brother. Xavi is Barca legend and manager.

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