In a surprising move, the Nobel committee has taken offense
with a 7-year old interview of Sen where he professes support for the Brazilian
football team in the 2006 World Cup and has threatened to strip him of his
Nobel Prize.
In a light hearted bit towards the end of the interview, Sen
said he was an avid football watcher and liked the way Brazil played. To this, the
Nobel committee, irritated at the Swedish team not getting his vote, threatened
to take the prestigious prize away from him. The Nobel committee is based out
of Sweden.
“Is Sen even a footballer? The Nobel committee must strip
him of the prize,” tweeted a prominent member and spokesperson of the committee.
“Don’t peddle your unsolicited comments on football. We know you as an
economist who has sold himself to Brazil.”
Once the news got around of Sen’s opinion, Swedes took to
social media to express their rage at this betrayal. Sven Ravelli tweeted: “It’s
best if Sen sticks to Economics and keeps his opinions about football to
himself.”
Sen himself has expressed surprise at the controversy. “As a
lover of football, I should be able to support any team I want,” he naively said.
The storm though refuses to die down. Incensed by all of
this, some Swedish fans have taken to distributing images of Sen and his family,
scantily clad doing the Samba. “This is the just desserts Sen gets for having
the temerity to expressing his opinion,” noted a Swedish fan.
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| Sen detractors have distributed this morphed photo of Sen (second woman from right) doing the Samba in order to embarrass him |
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