UEFA Champions League Draw

Champions League quarter-final draw

Villarreal v Arsenal
Manchester United v Porto
Liverpool v Chelsea
Barcelona v Bayern Munich

Ties to be played on 7th/8th April and 14th/15th April.

Champions League semi-final draw

Manchester United or Porto v Villarreal or Arsenal
Barcelona or Bayern Munich v Liverpool or Chelsea

Ties to be played on 28th/29th April and 5th/6th May.

Link

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5075920,00.html

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Links to Official Websites

My Journey So Far

Well this is a post about myself, and as stated about the journey so far. I was born having a weight of about 2.5 pounds...yes thats true :D

Academically, my life has taken me to :
Bahria college karsaz : Kindergarden till grade 5
Army Public School O'levels : Grade 6 till O' levels i.e. grade 11
The Lyceum : A ' Levels
Institute of Business Administration : BBA ongoing

Throughout my life i have always been fascinated by sports, sports stars and many of these have been my role models. Till today, I have played Cricket, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Table tennis, Volleyball, Badminton, Rugby, Atletics and even Gymnastics.

I have always played for my academic institutions and have played various sports. I have played for My Houses in institutions, was the captain os school Fooball team in APS, member of school and house cricket & Hockey team.
In lyceum i was in school & House team for both Cricket and football. Currently im an active member of the IBA football team named IBA UTD.

Other than sports, TV and movies takes a lot of my time. I am also into gaming and my preferances are sports, action, and straegy games. It has not been a long time, that i have also incorporated music and piano into my already busy schedule :D

In Pakistan i have visited Lahore, Pindi, Faisalabd, Gujranwala, Islamabad, Muree and the northern areas. The only foreign place have been to is Dubai and that was a family tour during the festival.

My favourite music is softrock, rock, alternative/pop rock, and blues. I love to hear to Muse, Coldplay, Poets of the fall, Brayan adams, greenday, U2 and the list goes on.

The only books i have read are:
Harry potter, The kite runner, Beckham's & Gerrard's Biographies and a few more.

I am a die hard follower of Manchester United Football club and this is the sport that i love to play and watch. I try to collect jerseys and anything related to the sport, clubs and masters of the game. I have also played in some clubs, an academy and just normal street football.

So, i guess this is it...
U let me know if u know more =)
cheers

The IBA Picture

IBA United is the football team of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. Football is by far the most popular sport at the IBA as it is played by many and the on-campus tournaments entertain the student body in general. Consequently, IBA United has gone from strength to strength over the past five years, both in terms of success and recognition.

For several years students have taken an iniative to formulate a football team for IBA - a team which was not recognized by the IBA and therefore did not have any support from the administration. Initially the University Campus and City Campus had separate teams until in 2004 the campuses united to form a team known as IBA United. IBA United, over the past four years, have played in several competitions in Karachi and play friendly matches on a regular basis. Additionally, they hold practice sessions on a regular basis as well. However, this was always unofficial as students would always pool in money for ground fees, kits, and equipment. The first time IBA United received any sort of recognition was when they played in the AKU tournament in May'08; as it was the requirement of the organizers that forms etc. were stamped and that a cheque from the university was issued.

IBA United’s success began by winning the Adidas Cup held in 2004 in Karachi. During the same period it also defeated the infamous Karachi United. Since then, IBA United has played friendly matches on a very regular basis against different universities and clubs across the city, and it has participated in several tournaments:

. Winter 2004 – Defence United Invitational Tournament – Semi-finalists
· Winter 2005 – Defence United Invitational Tournament – Semi-finalists
· Spring 2007 – Karachi University Inter-Departmental Cup – Semi-finalists
· Fall 2007 – IBA All Night Ramadan Tournament – Semi-finalists
· Spring 2008 – Aga Khan University Inter-University Tournament – Semi-finalists
· Winter 2008 – LUMS Invitational Tournament – Finalists
· Spring 2009 – IoBM Inter-University Futsol Tournament – Semi-finalists

Our vision is to become the best university football team in Karachi, then Pakistan; a team that becomes a symbol of attractive and effective football amongst the universities and the numerous clubs. Insha'ALLAH

Priceless Quotes from the World of Football

"Although we mourn our dead and grieve for our wounded, we believe that great days are not done for us...Manchester United will rise again" United chairman Harold Hardman

"I'd be surprised if all 22 players are on the field at the end of the game - one's already been sent off." George Best

"If I wanted to have an easy job...I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me." Jose

"We dominated for 99% of the game, it was the other 3% that cost us." Ruud Gullit

"I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals." Steve BouldCommentator

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly.

"Roman Abramovich has parked his Russian tanks on our lawn and is firing £50 notes at us."
- David Dein, Arsenal vice-chairman

"All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once."
-Raul Lopez

"Football is the opera of the people".~Stafford Heginbotham

"2-0 is a cricket score in Italy" Alan Parry"

"I don't play against any particular team, i play against the idea of losing"
Eric Cantona

"Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence."- Bobby Charlton

"Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys"

"At the end of this game, the European Cup will be only six feet away from you and you'll not even able to touch it if we lose. And for many of you that will be the closest you will ever get. Don't you dare come back in here without giving your all".- Alex Ferguson's half time team talk during the 1999 European Cup Final

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown in to the sea." Manchester United legend Eric Cantona

"You win nothing with kids" - Alan Hansen

"Ask all the players in the country which culb they would like to join & 99% would say Manchester United.The other 1% would be lairs".-Gordon McQueen

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."-Pele

Off Topic : My Speech on Global Warming

Speech on Global warming

Good afternoon Ladies and gentlemen, I am here to discuss the greatest environmental challenge facing this planet- global warming. I hope to enlighten u all about the issue at hand and provide u with some cold facts and visuals to show how real the threat is. Please allow me from the outset to stress that I’m not a specialist on global warming. I’m no Al Gore, but the subject is one I feel passionately about.

Global warming refers to an average increase in the earth’s temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer earth may lead to changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. History has already shown us examples of the fatal consequences of over-exploitation of natural resources. It is said, “History repeats itself”, but before, it was some local cultures that suffered, this time climate change is such that the future of the entire globe is at stake.

Global warming is not just an environmental issue, as too many people believed for too long. It is an all-encompassing threat. It is a threat to the world’s supply of fresh water, our source of life. Through reduced rainfall, melting glaciers, extended drought and salt-water intrusion, water stress is expected to increase and spread as this century unfolds.

It could imperil the world’s food supply, as rising temperatures and prolonged drought render fertile areas unfit for grazing or crops. It could endanger the very ground on which nearly half the world’s population live – in coastal cities – which face inundation from sea levels rising as a result of thermal expansion of oceans and melting icecaps and glaciers. This is not science fiction. These are plausible scenarios, based on clear and rigorous scientific modelling. Many scientists long known for their caution are now saying that global warming trends are perilously close to a point of no return.There is no debate among scientists about the basic facts of global warming. The only debate in the science community about global warming is about how much and how fast warming will continue. Scientists have given a clear warning about global warming.

But why so much hype ?
It’s because of its potential devastating effects
The projected implications for the economy, energy, food production, water supplies, natural disasters and migration from climate-stressed regions, have made climate change a factor of national and global security.

(presentation)
Ladies and gentlemen, now I would like your attention as I show you some visuals and consequences supporting the claim that global warming is indeed “an inconvenient truth”.

(Speech)
So these were only a handful of facts and visuals to support the claim of global warming as a threat to life on earth.

There is little doubt that the planet is warming and a rise of about two degrees Fahrenheit over land areas, seems almost innocuous, being less than day-to-day weather fluctuations. But more warming is already “in the- pipeline”. If u look at 10 hottest years ever measured, they have all occurred over the last 14 years and the hottest of all was 2005. More ominous tipping points loom. West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are vulnerable to even small additional warming. These two-mile-thick behemoths respond slowly at first, but if disintegration gets well underway it will become unstoppable.

New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica Wilkins ice is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, In the past three decades, six Antarctic ice shelves have collapsed completely .Debate among scientists is only about how much sea level would rise by a given date. Some say Sea levels are expected to rise between 7 and 23 inches by the end of the century and continued melting at the poles could add between 4 and 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters). Mountain glaciers are the source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people. These glaciers are receding world-wide, in the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains. They will disappear, leaving their rivers as trickles in late summer and fall, unless the growth of carbon dioxide is reversed.

Water shortage, drought, desertification, rising sea levels , storms, floods , heat waves , cold waves are the extreme consequences of global warming and their frequency and intensity will be greater. It is clear that climate protection is a matter of both national and international security. The consequences of global warming will hit hardest on the developing countries because they are poor – giving them less adaptive capacity. They already live on the front lines of pollution, disaster and the degradation of resources and land. Their livelihoods and sustenance depend directly on agriculture, forestry and fisheries. For them adaptation is a matter of sheer survival.

There can be no room any more for skepticism on global warming.
If politicians remain at loggerheads, citizens must lead. We must demand a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. We must block fossil fuel interests who aim to squeeze every last drop of oil from public lands, off-shore, and wilderness areas. Those last drops are no solution.
We do not own the earth. We administer it on behalf of our successors. Each of us is confronted with a choice: a choice that will impact not only our future, but the futures of our children and grandchildren. Do we continue with a business-as-usual attitude? Or do we make the changes necessary to prevent catastrophe?

Ladies and Gentlemen, Our earth’s fragile ecosystems are already stretched to their limit.Be energy conscious. Bring pressure on your utility, your government, and commit yourself and your family to reduce energy consumption. Don't shift the burden to the next generation. The choice is clear. It is time to stop talking and to begin acting. Even as we seek to cut emissions, we must at the same time do far more to adapt to global warming and its effects. Together, let us seek solutions that will lighten our human footprint on the environment; solutions that will leave our children, our grandchildren, and future generations, a healthy legacy.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Premier League : Season Review 07-08

Link for Official Season Review (Text)
http://www.premierleague.com/page/2007/08Season

Manchester united: Short History till Munich disaster

A Must watch for Manutd fans !!

Flowers Of Manchester

One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,

Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory.

Eight men will never play again, who met disaster there,

The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester.

The Busby Babes were flying home, returning from Belgrade,

This great United family all masters of their trade.

The pilot of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain

,Three times tried to take off and twice turned back again.

The third time down the runway disaster followed close,

There was slush upon that runway and the aircraft never rose.

It ploughed into the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned.

And eight of that team were killed when the blazing wreckage burned.

Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor, who were capped for England's side,

And Ireland's Liam Whelan and England's Geoff Bent died.

Mark Jones and Eddie Coleman and David Pegg also,

They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.

Big Duncan he went too, with an injury to his brain,

And Ireland's brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again.

The great Matt Busby lay there, the father of this team,

Three long months passed by before he saw his team again.

The trainer, coach and secretary and three members of the crew,

Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,

And one of them was Big Swifty who we will ne'er forget,

The finest English 'keeper that ever graced a net.

England's finest football team it's record truly great,

It's proud success mocked by this cruel turn of fate.

Eight men will never play again who met disaster there,

The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester.

Welcome Post

I welcome everyone to this blog of mine which has come into existence as part of assignment. As the title shows it is related mainly to football but any other thing can also be discussed here be it news, politics, music, arts or just random stuff.

I hope that this blog will help people in one way or the other =)

Cheers