Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Just a Game?

In the wake of Ireland’s astonishingly unexpected win over Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup, drawls can be heard throughout the bosky suburbs of Dublin proclaiming “You know, I could delivery a pretty mean googly before the rugger took up all my time.”Meanwhile, the angst of Pakistan’s defeat has been compounded by the death of the team’s 58-year-old coach, Bob Woolmer. But for some, Woolmer’s passing only seems like an appropriate response to such a catastrophic loss. On the BBC site, “Mohammad Iqbal, an inventory controller at a department store in Islamabad” spoke about Woolmer:”I felt that he must have been a good man, a man who was sensitive enough to take the defeat to his heart.” It’s always good to see sports fans with a sense of perspective.