Bursaspor: Magical Bunch or Lucky Bastards?

Last year, I would call you crazy if you told me Bursaspor was going to win the Turkish Super League. A surprise for everyone, including those who support Bursaspor.

As a Bursan, I have always supported Bursaspor as my second team but for the past 23 years, my two favourite teams had never fought for the title. It was a weird mash of feelings when Fenerbahçe lost the title to Bursaspor but it's alright, I guess.

How could Bursaspor break the monopoly of the big four of Turkish football? That's easy to see. Bringing the ex-big four players together. However, that's not the whole story.

First of all, they were given 3 points for a match against Diyarbakırspor that had to be stopped due to crowd misbehaviour. The next point was that not all the smaller teams (Anatolian teams as we call it in Turkey), did not really concentrate on getting full points from them. Many simply did not defend against them.

Did they get lucky because Beşiktaş and Galatasaray were simply shit? You could say so. Fenerbahçe's last minute nightmare came back from 2006 to haunt the club. Still, this does not mean that Bursaspor played some good football all year long. Their success is somehow overemphasized everywhere. We'll see next year if they really deserved all the praise.

My prediction for next year;

Bursaspor will finish between 4th and 7th spots in the TSL and get 2 points in the Champions League and get out of the tournament in the Group stage. (That's NOT what I hope. It's simply what I predict.)

Why was Lundegaard in trouble?

Those who watched the movie Fargo by Coen Brothers might be familiar to the name Jerry Lundegaard who was a useless and talentless car salesman with huge financial problems. When asked what kind of trouble he was in, he simply refused to mention the reasons.

Having watched the movie more than 5 times, I can claim that his huge trouble was that he got into debt while cheating on his wife. His mistress was the woman in the diner where Jerry and Wade discussed the ransom and the kidnapping. Why do I think so? Well, the lady was smiling at him while he grabbed the drinks.

As a total failure, this was the only time in the movie when someone smiled or showed interest to him. There is no other way this could be explained.

Vuvuzela - Football Fans' Baptism by Fire

It all started in the summer of 2009 when the Confederations Cup was being played in the South Africa. The tournament is seen as a rehearsal of the actual World Cup and takes place one year before World Cup.

Noone expected such a horrible rehearsal since the noise of the Vuvuzelas blown during the cup was unbearable. My only hope for the World Cup was that fans from around the world would outnumber the South African fans in the World Cup which would lead to the minor use of the Vuvuzelas. It didn't work out the way I hoped.

Last Saturday, I sat in front of my telly at home and started watching the Argentina-Nigeria game and realized that I was not really concentrated on what was going on during the game. Even a pint of beer didn't help my concentration. I found the reason later on. The noise coming from the stadium did not reflect any spirit or the chants. I felt like I was watching a game in a beehive.

I simply do not understand why it is not banned as players, referees, spectators and viewers all around the world are distracted hugely. I haven't been able to watch a game in full comfort so far. The only time I enjoyed a game was with a bunch of American and English friends and a lot of beer.

There is only one way to stop this horrible experience: Fans from Europe should go and get after each and every bastard that is blowing a Vuvuzela.