DOHA: There's a memorable scene in Omkara, Vishal Bhardwaj's 2006 badlands take on Shakespeare's Othello. It is biting in its irony, cruelly emasculating in delivery. Langda Tyagi makes Rajju distribute wedding cards for Dolly's wedding to Omi. Nothing wrong with that, just that Dolly was betrothed to marry Rajju not very long ago.
Maybe it's an extreme comparison but at first sight, Saturday's third-place match between Croatia and Morocco at the Khalifa Stadium here is something like that. It is that vital 'seventh' game at the World Cup that no team would want to be playing, falling on the wrong side of the equation. You wouldn't want to too, if you were told that consolation prizes were your fate, that wooden spoons somehow outweighed golden laurel wreaths.
