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Will we? Won’t we?
Mike Fennell. Funny guy. One day he tells everyone that he’s worried about the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi missing its tryst with destiny.
Mike Fennell. Funny guy. One day he tells everyone that he’s worried about the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi missing its tryst with destiny. The next day Funny Mike says he’s not worried at all. So what happened in the intervening hours for him to change his mind? Was it his meeting with the venerable Sports Minister M.S. Gill that turned tension into confidence? Or was it his meeting with Delhi Commonwealth Games’ ringmaster Suresh Kalmadi on Saturday that made Mr Fennell furrow his brows unnaturally? We don’t know.
But we will know this: the bookies are looking at the Commonwealth Games Federation president hitting the grumpy curve again around the end of January. Just to make sure, however, let’s examine what Mr Fennell did say on Saturday. “To now hear that there are further delays is distressing,” he was quoted in the newspapers as saying. Now let’s see. “Distressing” sounds like he was worried, and “now hear that there are further delays” suggests there will be further delays. On Sunday, the same man said, “This [delay in projects] is the area we should not be worrying about.”
Should we be distressed about Mr Fennell’s flip-flops? Don’t be silly. As the Vedantic-sounding Sheila Dikshit pointed out on Sunday, “I am nervous,” following that up with: “It [completion of projects in time] will be done.” All Mr Fennell and Ms Dikshit are trying to say is that they are jittery, but their jitters will fuel the confidence needed to complete all preparations well in time. Fair is foul and foul is fair/hover through the fog and Delhi’s filthy air.
