In heated times, it’s best to have World Cup fever!
Haresh Says as published in Mailsport today. PERHAPS the prolonged heat wave earlier this year has fried our brains, severely impairing our judgement. And it looks like our ability to think will be further handicapped as we brace for El Nino this month. It could very well last till August or September. Weeks before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, we all turned football pundits and pretended to be Joachim Low or Vicente del Bosque. Housewives and even vegetables sellers were speaking about their favourite team’s chances. Restaurateurs got their workers to wear fake jerseys while roadside burger stalls displayed mini flags of the participating teams. And during the World Cup, the conversations strictly revolved around football. Sadly, this is not the case this time around. Brazil — the home of football — hosts the World Cup which kicks off on Thursday (Brazil play Croatia on Friday 4am Malaysian time). I visited several shopping ...