It was the time when I was in ninth class. We lived near to our school ,in satellite town, like many of my class fellows and naturally we played together in the evening. The ground was a big one and like pure Pakistani style, one could witness atleast 20 cricket matches and two football matches all at the same time… only that one had to concentrate a lot to watch the intended match because all of them were intermingled. There was a sense of sharing and a pure brotherhood in the ground… different matches happening side by side with almost absolute harmony among the people. Gosh! I loved that time and I miss it now.
Anyway, we fellows, initially, played cricket. We were all mad about it. But with all due respect to cricket-lovers, I don’t like to play it any more (though I like a lot watching the matches). And why is it so… that is the main point of my writing. I changed because circumstances forced me( a good change… I hope you people will agree too). I developed a huge huge liking for another sport that I had played with little interest earlier… FOOTBALL 
Oh! I love it…really. Lately I’ve been accused of being “football maniac” 
. But for information of some people, this comment is not a reveleation to me. You may check my cell’s welcome note… guess what??? Its “FooTB@LL CrAzY” . Yes, I am football maniac! Any objections??? If yes then “Objection over-ruled” 
So I was telling you that we fellows played cricket and as Mushtaq Yousafi (a famous comidey writer) also describes it… “Cricket khelty to sirf 2 banday hein, baki sab dekhtay hein” and “Cricket vailay logo ka khel hai”…all this with due respect to the cricket players ( saying so again and again becasue I won’t mean to disrespect anyone). So this is what happened to me too. Returning to home at the evening I always felt that I had watched far too much than actually playing… Then I started a rather evil scheme… finding the friends who felt the same as me and it worked. There were a plenty of them. Luckily these were those days when Euro cup was underway. Lucky because our home channel, PTV, was kind enough to broadcast those live matches. And it reboosted my spirit of playing football. Afterwards, the FIFA World Cup 2006 added fuel to the raging fire…
All of this ended with me bringing a football and start playing at a corner of the ground with three other friends… That was sort of a rebellion from me . But what happened next was even more astonoshing…several other guys were attracted to the charm and magic of this super sport and without any direct persuation they joined us. Eventually, within a month or so, all of us were glued to football . And in vacations we played in both the morning and the evening. The real charm in football was that everyone did get a chance to actually play it in the match.I miss those days.
And now here I am, a culprit of being a footballer . By the way, I don’t over-estimate my play but I like playing football as much as I like to watch the EPL matches (I don’t under-estimate my play too) . The one who correctly guesses my favourite EPL would get a surprise gift
Hope you enjoyed reading my little auto-biography. Take care
Keep smiling
FIAMAN-ALLAH
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