PARIS: "It's a bluff thing! Penalties are always a bluff." Indian hockey's resident philosopher was breaking down the art of facing penalties - the psychology, the deception and the trauma. PR Sreejesh, son-of-the-soil hero, effortless celebrity - you should see the Beatlemania kind of love and adulation the expats at the hockey venue here have for him - had just walked off the blindingly blue turf at the historic Stade Yves-du-Manoir.
There was an added strut in his already heavy, padded walk - a kind of large land-sea mammal resplendent in yellow - and the jibes reserved for the hankering media in the mixed zone: "Ah, I was talking, and you left me when the coach came. I saw that, I saw that. Not saying anything now, you guys always do this!"
