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Not so curious case of England exit from World Cup 2014

As you might already know, I am not an expert on world football. But as all the football fanatics who tends to act like an expert when it comes to football matches and favourite players, I do have an opinion. Being in heart of England during the world cup first round exit season, first time after 1958, thought of sharing what might have worked better if at all there was some chance. As always the football coaches are often the subject of a poke and dig from fans and followers alike, this can just be ignored as a rant or bitching. To put things on perspective, I am not an English football fan but expected them to play better than what they did considering the talents at disposal. Often I have shared with my friends and close ones that since most of us follow premier league, we get awestruck when we see all the club stars together on the pitch sharing the same dressing room. It is nothing greater than a fantasy team coming together rather than an actual result oriented get together.

Holidays at Scotland - another trip on the wall

Another trip on my wall As all exciting trip days, I woke up early without any alarm or black tea. Rushed to send work emails to settle few pending stuff to allow my mind to slip-in to the holiday mood. My wife and son got ready in no time as always and we took the trains to the Victoria Coach station. Last time I was on this coach station, we missed the bus for no reason. And this time we were far too keen to rush and board the bus without any gate opening or calls unlike last time when they never opened gate or did a call but expected the world to get into the bus. Long journey to Glasgow, Scotland and time to take that long awaited, careless, free, my own time to get that long cherished sleep which I missed due to long work hours and other busy-ness. Reached in the evening as planned. First interesting personal touch was shown by the taxi driver who blinked his eyes with wonder when I said the zip code which had been the norm in London. He said can you tell  me  the buildin