Go Super Kings Go...............

Go Yellow......! Go Super Kings.......!
Welcome to the Lion's Den......................!

Its going to be the chant of 50,000 fans who are going to be present at the M.A. chidambaram stadium, Chennai in next couple of days to witness the battle of cricket between the chennai super kings and the Mumbai Indians. They(the mumbai indians) are coming after a shocking defeat at home and can be aptly quoted as wounded tigers while on the other hand, the super kings are returning home as roaring Lions after winning a battle away from home as royal as they were expected to be......

In a chennai Fan's lingo, chennai superkings are returning back as "superstars"......[U need to live in chennai to know the significance and the psychic boost that word carries with it!!!]

Before going further into this post, I must say to the reader that am not painting a picture of mine as a stereotype regionalist, but if u think what the whole league is about?? Its the battle between eight cities and when the fans of other teams have already started to boast and become crazy maniacs backing up their home teams why not me??

This is an abstract from one of the sports article (named "IPL-Identity challenge", cricinfo) reporting on yesterday's Mumbai Indians home game against banglore.

"Mumbaikars had come to the Wankhede to watch a Mumbai victory first and a cricket match second" This was comment given on that article quoting that "Booing"mumbai crowd when Rahul went out for toss or whenever the Banglore team made an appeal during the game.
"for Rahul Dravid, so used to being the darling of fans in this country wherever he goes, the experience was a novel one."
"It was a fantastic experience but I'm not used to a crowd like that. Whenever I've played here before for India, the crowd have been rooting for you. But here, I hit a four and no one clapped. I think I'll have to get used to that over the rest of the tournament" He (Dravid) said.

This speaks about the IPL fever that the fans are caught with and I don't find anything wrong in that as long as it stays within the spirit of supporting on cause of the game and strictly not in any other matter. This is not something new if you relate it to maniac fans of Football leagues in Europe.

Since chennai is going to face Mumbai in its first home encounter, it adds more spice on expectations of how Chennai fans are going to support their men........? Are they going to give the same medicine back to the Mumbai guys? or Are they going to honour the cricket first and then the rest? or Are they going to show some new lessons on how to or how not to behave supporting a home team??

Lets wait and see.....