"What?? You must be joking, Arun. Are you OK?" would be your response to the title. But, I really did. Sorry, I forgot to mention the word 'bid'. Yes, I won the bid for Euro 2008. You know, the teams I guessed were exactly those who played the final on June 29, Germany and Spain. I still ask myself how. How did I choose those teams that exactly got through all other qualifiers to reach the final? I should confess that I had no idea what the teams are when I had to bid them.
Germany is always my favorite. I have no reason why. Germany, as a team, I considered them to be a better choice for the Euro cup. They may not have any star players. But somehow I am much inclined to bid on Germany irrespective of their capacity needless to mention not just in Euro. Still I was not sure about them as they do not always win. Hence I'm forced to pick another. Now which one to pick. There were only few teams to choose from making my life easier: Portugal, France, Italy and Spain.
Portugal and France, though having good track records, did not convince me to be the winners of the Euro cup. I would have blindly gone with France if Zidane plays for them still. But now, I'm left with just two to choose from. No doubt Italy was a good team and they never lost to Spain in Euro at least as far as I know. They strongly believed in this Superstition which could have been seen from their quarterfinals against Spain. It was the same day, June 22 in every Euro cup in the past, that Spain was defeated in the Penalties, irrespective of whether Italy deserved the victory or not. I do not like Italy for many reasons: one of them being the superstitious beliefs. Moreover I wanted a team that do not play against Germany until the final, if at all Germany reaches.
Germany reached the final after defeating Turkey in not-so-professional yet not-so-unprofessional way. This semifinal was very tense that no one believed Turkey giving-up until the final whistle is blown. They portrayed their never give-up mentality through-out the tournament. Still my favorites won adding not-so-much to my surprise. In fact I expected it well-in-advance.
I was in a dilemma on the final day of Euro cup. Though both of my teams are in and I'm going to win the bid anyhow, whom to support now. My favorites or ever-unluckies. I couldn't decide till the end. But I was happy to see, the unlucky, unfortunate, forbidden, forsaken team in spite of their tremendous potential, the Spanish, lifting the Euro cup after their spectacular performance through-out the tournament.
I pocketed a decent amount in winning the bid.
But,
How did I choose the teams correctly even before the tournament, still I wonder!
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4 comments:
so how much did you manage to pocket yourself :-)
It is better not revealed :-D
you shuld be thankful to ur senses for bidding the winning combination. also I appreciate u for ur so called balanced analysis on the participating teams.
Hey Arun, finally got to see your post, the actual problem was with the service provider. I basicaly know nothing about the game, so, now,u be truthful and a good boy and do tell me how much u pocketed from the bid.
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