www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Music is life!  They often depict angels playing harps making heavenly music, so God created music and all around the world, every country makes music. In the movies, you would not have seen a movie where there are no movie theme song or other music and songs in it so that throughout your years, whenever they play a certain song or a piece of music, you get easily transported to the era when you first watched that movie. Even each TV series has its own signature tune. A few friends and I were so hooked on music and songs in our youth, we religiously follow the Billboard Top 100 or the American Top 40. In another group, we even wanted to form our own band! But they just don't make songs like they used to any more. Sigh. I was brought up on songs and music because my dad loved to fiddle with his hi-fi systems and I got to enjoy it. B and W speakers that later evolved and switched to Bose . He would in a few years changed or upgraded a turntable, a tuner, a cassette deck...

The Leicester story is so compelling, just like a fairy tale. It is at the same time an irony and a conundrum. Now every team are inspired to go do a 'Leicester' or this achievement can never be repeated?  Leicester's style if you do not already know is anti tiki-taka. Barcelona will foam in their mouth to adopt it. They did not copy Bayern Munich. They were not star studded like Real or Barca. Not even like Manchester City nor have the history of Manchester United but yet against all odds, they wrote their own story. When you write your own story, you make your own history. Leicester's possession play yielded an average of forty plus per cent, played some of the most long ball but in the final third they were exceptional and took some of the most shots at goal. They confounded critics and those who believe that possession is all things. Next season, they may not win the title again but will be taking on Europe. There was once a manager who won it all. In 1977, at th...

The next time I walk past a soccer shop or that King Power shop at Bangkok Airport, I shall walk in and purchase a Leicester City jersey as I said a few weeks into the season, long before they were crowned champions. It was simply because of the way they play so joyfully and fearlessly. I will also do it even if they were not champions as they have given many enough joy! What a befitting ending for the Foxes! Champions of England! They did not have to lift a finger for it to happen but when Tottenham surrendered a 2-0 lead for Chelsea to equalised at 2-2. It was all over. At 5,000 to 1 there is unlikely to be a greater story ever told in soccer folklore and annals. With this betting odds, Leicester's unlikely win is liken to William Hill's odds for (1) Finding Elvis Presley alive! (2) President Obama becoming a baseball pro after leaving the White House! (3) Kim Kardashian being US President in 2020!  Leicester City gave hopes to all teams in particular s...