Arunava Chatterjee

In search of meaning - via Sports, Music, Literature | MarTech as day job | বাঙালী

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

How long does it take to build a team capable of winning the greatest prize in club football? 9 years, it seems! #UCLfinal #ManUtd #PSG #Chelsea #LiverpoolFC https://t.co/3oygRfYKcc

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@Ankaman616 xOptimisticAnka per 60 (TOTD episode, basically) > 0.75 over the season!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@FPLfrasier Could it be that they understand it all, but write this nonsense irrespective to generate clicks and angry quote tweets? After all, they have also become slaves to the algorithm. Most of them, anyway.

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@AnirudhMenon89 Fell in love with Batigol and Argentina back in 1994. Many heartbreaks later, by 2018 I had given up all hope of ever seeing them lifting a trophy.

Then 2022 happened.

Hang in there brother, it gets better, eventually!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@lifeofpujaa মাতঙ্গিনী থেকে পূজারিণী - মেদিনীপুরের মহিলাদের থামিয়ে রাখা যায়না :)

যা খুশি ওরা বলে বলুক, আপনি এগিয়ে যান!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@patralekha2011 To add to this - in almost all villages and small towns across Bengal, tutoring of children is done predominantly by women - if not the mom, then some Kakima or Pisi from the neighbourhood. It’s insane that people can’t believe this particular demography can be well-read!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@CaffeineCadever @theliverdoc @dr_sivaranjani Oh ok. That’s great. Would you have a link handy for that? Thanks in advance!

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@knittins @JayShah We should start a petition to build him a statue at Wankhede. Remove the Steve Smith one.

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@joybhattacharj Question 4! Well played, Sire!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@collinsadam It’s like how Sir Alex said he could build a team with Zidane and ten pieces of wood. For BCCI it’s now Modi Stadium plus any random 4 plots of land. History be damned!

P.S. Zidane did love a spin, so there’s that!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@gulu1959 @ovshake42 Yes. ‘Regular’ is the keyword though :)

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@cricketingview That’s not true. ICC’s own rules mandate that visas have to be guaranteed for all qualified teams by the host country, and no government interference should be tolerated.

They should have stripped ECB of the hosting rights!

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@DataAnalyticEPL These two metrics are additive, right? So plotting these across two axis would distort the picture.

For example United’s total is 19, higher than Liverpool at 18. But in this plot, Liverpool’s dot covers a higher area. What am I missing?

[Aurm - Bank Lockers Reimagined @Aurm_Club]

Heard the internet wants an Anti-Bua locker? We might’ve built one! 🔐

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

That felt good.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

What Amad ending.

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

Talk about ‘troubling the scorers’
@ESPNcricinfo @TweetsOfBhogle

Well done, Marnus! 😃

#AUSvsIND

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

A lesson in what it means to be competitors but not enemies!

Massive, massive love and respect for both ❤️

#Nadal #Fedal

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Arunava Chatterjee @arunava_red]

@joybhattacharj How about the legend Carlos Roa from Argentina (& more importantly the Seventh Day Adventist Church) who refused to play on Saturdays coz of Sabbath?

Also a cancer survivor, beat England in a WC tiebreaker & rejected a move to Man Utd coz he thought the apocalypse was coming!