Average Joe's Blog

Football is a very passionate sport. It is so passionate that more often than not, it beats the throws of romance. Because romance between two people can die; it is not always happily ever after in love world. But when a person loves his football club, then that is a relationship that goes beyond death. They have talked about The Arsenal going eight, nine years without winning a troph y. Yet in the nine years that the gunners have had their drought, I doubt their support base dwindled. If anything, more people found reasons to be attached to a club that plays the most attractive football in England. Liverpool have gone twenty years and counting without lifting the league; but their fans still find more reasons to love them every day. Of course, different rules apply for for Man United fans who thought they owned all the footballs and the referees in this world - they deserve whatever comes to them. But one still has to admire their willingness to stand by their team in these day...

Heard it being said that the best writers are the most reclusive and angriest lot on this earth. Simply because happy people don't write gripping tales. Happy people are - happy. and when they are happy, a pen is the last thing they think of. They think of booze and drugs and sex; there is simply no place for a prayer.  But it is when a person is angry or is missing someone or something that badly that he suddenly sees things so clearly he turns into a philosopher and feels the urg e to share his newly acquired pain - under the guise of it being knowledge or a brilliant work of fiction. Nobody knows they are that good at praying until they come face to face with Godzilla on their doorstep. And closer to home, most of us might have known of  Hon. Tendai Biti 's exploits at Honey and Blackenburg, but we only got to know his mastery of the English language when he lost an election to the Zanu Pf juggernaut of Robert Mugabe and Co.  But Biti is a lawyer; I was talk...