When Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder caustically said that the passions of Indian and Pakistanis are excessively... When Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder caustically said that the passions of Indian and Pakistanis are excessively inflamed by cricket matches, she wasn’t wrong. But that is only a small part of the picture. It's not just sub-continentals who are emotionally vested in sport. The parliament session held after June 22, 1986, was somber with British MPs in mourning. Argentina had beaten England in the quarter-final of the football World Cup and it was being seen as revenge for the Falklands. Even Maggie couldn’t rouse...