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Filmbuff Side Hero Username: Filmbuff Post Number: 8003 Registered: 11-2011 Posted From: 103.241.140.10 Rating: N/A |
Simon Barnes is one of my favourite writers....a player like Federer needs a writer like Federer | ||
Chiru_fan Megastar Username: Chiru_fan Post Number: 24076 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 71.179.35.152 Rating: N/A |
How are you doing annai? AUS open ki itu vaipu kooda raaledu meeru? BTW....KING  CHIRU - SACHIN - FEDERER | ||
Damaak_kharaab Junior Artist Username: Damaak_kharaab Post Number: 317 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 172.14.224.6 Rating: N/A |
Great stuff! Did you write it? | ||
Frodo Comedian Username: Frodo Post Number: 1516 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 108.33.79.157 Rating: |
Writing the Roger Federer story It takes a writer of the calibre of Simon Barnes to put our collective obsessiveness about Federer, even in this latter part of his playing life, in perspective. He writes in A Book of Heroes: Or a Sporting Half-Century: "Even if someone were to come along and beat his record in terms of numbers, it is unlikely that they would do so by means of such beauty and artistry, such style. Federer really is the greatest of all time. It is not necessary to worship him as a god: but a certain amount of deference is - well, therapeutic." Writes Coetzee: "Like you, I think that watching sport on television is mostly a waste of time. But there are moments that are not a waste of time, as would for example crop up now and again in the glory days of Roger Federer. I scrutinise such moments, revisiting them in memory - Federer playing a cross-court backhand volley, for instance. Is it truly, or only, the aesthetic, I ask myself, that brings such moments alive for me? I have just seen something like the human ideal made visible." What the executioner did after he was done with his job. (4,6) Tennis Galaxy |
