Thread by @PolitiCrooks

1/4... Last night... foolish Arnab @Republic was abusing Cricket because it got all the attention and all the money.... such brainless hatred and anger is uncalled for just because hockey & other games languished... Look at cricket history...

https://twitter.com/ggiittiikkaa/status/1423544992132444161

2/4... Cricket has been promoted heavily by the British and the Indian politicians and ordinary people... Even MPs... including Grand Pappu, played friendly matches with MP teams quite frequently... This is what was fed to people... @ggiittiikkaa

https://twitter.com/PolitiCrooks/status/1423574900929794048

3/4...Till the 1971 victories over England-WI... Cricket didnt pay well.. Max some players got was 5000... players like Gavaskar rebelled.. Most players like Wadekar, Vishwanath, Bedi, Solkar worked with SBI for a living.. Cricket didnt help a living..

https://twitter.com/PolitiCrooks/status/1423575323363315719

4/4... 1983 WC win exploded cricket craze across rural India with boys nurturing ambitions... the middle class ambition... Thats how Cricket evolved to be a lucrative pursuit... It took decades.. Other sports did not exactly raise the aspirations of people

https://twitter.com/PolitiCrooks/status/1423576001238298634

Cricket is not really a game for masses... it can hardly employ about 100 players lucratively... and personally I think its a dumb game... the same is true for Bollywood... but thats what Modi's YUTES pursue... LOL!....

1. On the other hand... let us look at the evolution of Football... It was a street urchin game in England... played by the wretched and poor buggers... while the aristocrats played cricket...England had lots of money in cricket... but the worn out coal-type guys playd football.

2. It took a few decades for football to catch up in other nations in the late 19th century... and early 20th century saw the first World Cup in the 1920s... with Uruguay winning the 1st edition... There were hardly 12 countries then...

https://twitter.com/PolitiCrooks/status/1423577412852350976

3. As it grew football (which is a natural game for humans) grew dramatically.. The 1958 win by Brazil dramatically changed their economy & self-esteem of a whole nation...Today there are 250mn football players in Associated football clubs... not all of them earn like stars...

4. England alone has 20 clubs in EPL & another 52 in the 2nd Divn... Players get as much as 50-100 mn dollars in transfers... Where is India in football? Nowhere!... Football is the game that offers the MOST professional careers... But India is stuck with stupid cricket... END!

Indians like the pathetic Arnab @Republic have a Mrs Jones attitude... If you cant do well for yourself... you bring down the ones who are doing well... Very pathetic approach to life ... LOL!...

https://twitter.com/Sanghi_Superman/status/1423576504823205896

Hahaha... Look at the US... the most popular game & often called US national game is Baseball... not many countries play it.. But they hold a "World Series" & they get highest audience within US.. and players get very highly paid.. who wants Olympics?...

https://twitter.com/ggiittiikkaa/status/1423579362373341185

In 1997...the US faced the 2nd biggest Bank loot of 15mn dollars from Lumis Fargo... The FBI put out the call for witnesses on TV & waited to watch & get responses but the TV channel did not play it... bec they had to extend a Baseball playoff.. Hahahhaa..

https://twitter.com/PolitiCrooks/status/1423580815548510208

Arnab @Republic is a dunce who just rants... Even before TV in India.. Cricket was the ONLY game that could fill stadiums... Half the reason was... Cricket got foreign teams like England, Aus, WI to India.. while other sports did not...

https://twitter.com/VenkatSagit/status/1423585279076573190