FIFA World Cup: HEXA HO!
Spain out, Brazil struggling, two draws, three own goals, eight penalties and four red cards already — where exactly is the 20th World Cup going in football’s most exotic and passionate home? MEENAKSHI RAO tries to make some sense of all the upheaval and the chant for Brazil hitting the Hexa by lifting the Cup the sixth timeOn a day that Stuart Binny recorded one of the most handsome statistics in Indian cricket by hauling six Bangladeshi scalps, giving away only four runs in the process, it was rather ironical that sports editors, otherwise married to cricket, were struggling to find pride of place for this achiever, that too in expanded editions. Blame this on the great Brazilian wave that has captured the world sporting arena for the next month or so. All thanks to football taking centrestage and the tectonic shifts that the 20th FIFA World Cup has been witnessing at the event’s most nascent stage. Really! Think about it. Would even the now-late Paul have imagined that Sp