Raj Fidai

🧵 1/n @IndianFootball launched a new Strategic Roadmap for #IndianFootball on 7/1/23 It has a mention of 'National Football Philosophy', on which Sec. Gen. @Shaji4Football and Pres. @kalyanchaubey spoke at length. Here are my views on the same. Do go through the whole thread...

@godoolally Bebinca #doolallyq

Q7. Guess which layered Goan dessert, often called the “Queen of Goan desserts,” received a GI tag in 2023 to protect its traditional coconut milk, egg, and nutmeg recipe. #doolallyq

@godoolally The Office #doolallyq

Q2. Guess which sitcom made the Chandler Valley Center building in Panorama City, California, a tourist attraction. #doolallyq

This Jamie Vardy documentary. It’s so beautiful. Such a warm guy living a gloriously simple life. At the beginning of the documentary, he asked for a beer, then asks one of the support staff to get him a ‘cock’ to open the beer. It was a penis-shaped bottle opener. He delved into his story. He grew up in Sheffield and loves Sheffield Wednesday. He played in their academy, but was released for being too small. At 20, he was working in a factory where walking aids were made. It killed his back but he loved it. He said he wasn’t thinking of playing professionally. He loved the booze and ball. He played non-league and was doing well there. His life outside the pitch was chaotic. He got into trouble and was charged with assault. He wore an ankle tag for 6 months, and had a 6p.m curfew which meant that he couldn’t finish games. His mates thought he could go higher but he didn’t back himself at first. He’d go work 8-5 shifts, then train on some days and score goals by the weekend. He left Stocksbridge Park Steels for Halifax. At Halifax, a bigger club with a proper stadium, he got better. The idea that it could be a professional career was beginning to settle but he still cared less. He drank with his friends. They are called the ‘Inbetweeners’. It was at Halifax he met John Morris, now his agent. Morris was a young agent who was finding clients. He said he’d spend long periods going through players data and watching them but nothing was happening. But someone told him about Vardy and he went to see him. He thought he should be playing on a higher level. He said he called Vardy time and again but he never responded. He was drinking. After many failed attempts to reach him, he went to his house. He knocked on his door early in the morning, introduced himself and that was the beginning of their relationship. Morris sent Vardy’s name and clips everywhere seeking a club in league football. He’d agreed now to play professionally — just for one year — to see how it goes. Fleetwood Town was a success. He joined Leicester for £1m. It was a record for a Conference League player. His earliest days at Leicester weren’t great. He still drank and sometimes got to training late. His wife told him he’d be wasting what could be a fantastic career in football, an incredible opportunity. He changed. Vardy played for England. He played and scored in the Champions League. He played at the Euros. He played at the World Cup. Of course, he won the Premier League. And he’s one of the best strikers of the last decade in the Premier League. For a man who wasn’t fully professional even at 25, that’s big deal. A beautiful underdog story. He made it, sometimes in spite of himself.

We just won the Premier League without scoring from a corner.

To err is human, 2πr is circumference.

O cara lançou a melhor edit pra Copa do Mundo e foi dormir…

The best thriller rendition

Penguenler, Tuzağa Düşen Pengueni Kurtaran Kadına Balık İkram Etti! Hayvanlar Bile Minnetlerini Sunuyorlar 👏❤️

𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙅𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙝 🌟 Come on, #BlueColts! 🇦🇺🆚🇮🇳 🕤 21:30 IST 🏟️ King Abdullah Sports City Pitch C 📺 @FanCode #AUSvIND #AFCU17 #AsiaDream #IndianFootball

Defeat. #MUNLIV

🇪🇸 Just a quick heads up... As well as the players, EVERY club employee is going to Ibiza. The club shop and offices will be shut until Wednesday morning. We will see you then! 🤣 #YCFC🔴🔵

Zlatan on youth football culture in Italy and he plans to change it at AC Milan

A Football Manager player "ruined his life" to prove that Arne Slot is a fraud. Buckle in folks, this is an incredible read... 😂👏

Carla, a laundry worker for 27 years at Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles, was honored with a tifo and pre-game presentation before she retires at the end of the season 👏 Sometimes football is brilliant 🥹

🇦🇷 TONIGHT: el superclásico! 💥 River Plate host Boca Juniors at El Monumental (9pm KO, UK time) In 2012, Boca’s hinchada travelled in ‘caravana’ arriving to River Plate territory of Núñez in style!

One thing about destiny... it doesn't miss. ✨ Film: OM SHANTI OM (2007)

“Can you name these flags?” “I don’t think you’re allowed to call them that”

IT’S SUPERCLÁSICO WEEK⚔️💥 🎥@CasitalbRiver

F1 superstar promoting Champions League and we complain about cricketers promoting the sport in India 🤷🏽

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.