<em>Still the best league in South Asia & SE Asia (Proof that clubs here spend a lot more to bring in talent + we always manage to beat the SE Asian clubs in AFC matches)</em><div> </div><div>This guy is in hallucination. SE asian league like Thai preimeir league, Indonesian preimer league(ISL before) etc are far ahead than our crappy(<em>at least for me in terms of TV viewing and corwd etc</em>) I league. </div><div> </div><div>Quite agree with @Arsenalfan. <br></div>
oh yeah? SE asian clubs are no better than the best indian clubs at our peak. both of you are still trapped on tv viewership+ fans in the stadium. both are irrelavent for the quality on the pitch.
Football is the no 1 sport there while for us its entirely skewed towards cricket. you remove red tapism here and the gap between us and SE asia will widen.
<font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">You do realize though that the gap will widen better for SE Asia than us. Yes, we are pretty close right now but it is not as if they are not rising themselves. India was really close to Thailand not so long ago and now that gap is literally a tournament apart.</font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Lets look at an example in Indonesia... the Indonesian Super League to be more specific. Why the Super League? I feel that will be more popular and better quality than the Premier League is a few years. There top club, Persipura Jayapura, has some pretty decent foreigners. A guy from the Ligue 2 in France (MTN Elite League Cameroon later), a Liberian international (current), a former Brazilian Serie C player, and two former K Leaguers. And to add to that, they have a former A-League top goalscorer in Sergio van Djik. Sure, we had that in India to but the difference is that van Djik is actually giving a shit in Indonesia unlike Hernandez did.</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">What did our champions have? An old former Gabon international who was suspended gloabally in the past, Beto who, while he is good, is nothing major, an Afghan international who is overrated, and Lamine Tamba.</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">And you say we are better than South-East Asia? Based on what East Bengal did only? Barely beating Selengor of Malaysia, drawing a Vietnamese club in Vietnam before beating them 4-1 in India and then scrapping past Tampines Rovers of Singapore. Then after they just beat a club from Myanmar of all places and then barely beating Padang before being shown their true strengh against Al-Kuwait.</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">I commend East Bengal for doing that, specially when I said they would not, but that is no reason to automatically assume we are better than South East-Asia. We are not and that is a fact.</font></div>
You do realize though that the gap will widen better for SE Asia than us. Yes, we are pretty close right now but it is not as if they are not rising themselves. India was really close to Thailand not so long ago and now that gap is literally a tournament apart.</font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Lets look at an example in Indonesia... the Indonesian Super League to be more specific. Why the Super League? I feel that will be more popular and better quality than the Premier League is a few years. There top club, Persipura Jayapura, has some pretty decent foreigners. A guy from the Ligue 2 in France (MTN Elite League Cameroon later), a Liberian international (current), a former Brazilian Serie C player, and two former K Leaguers. And to add to that, they have a former A-League top goalscorer in Sergio van Djik. Sure, we had that in India to but the difference is that van Djik is actually giving a shit in Indonesia unlike Hernandez did.</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><font color="#ff0000">What did our champions have? An old former Gabon international who was suspended gloabally in the past, Beto who, while he is good, is nothing major, an Afghan international who is overrated, and Lamine Tamba</font></span><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">.</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">And you say we are better than South-East Asia? Based on what East Bengal did only? Barely beating Selengor of Malaysia, drawing a Vietnamese club in Vietnam before beating them 4-1 in India and then scrapping past Tampines Rovers of Singapore. Then after they just beat a club from Myanmar of all places and then barely beating Padang before being shown their true strengh against Al-Kuwait.</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">I commend East Bengal for doing that, specially when I said they would not, but that is no reason to automatically assume we are better than South East-Asia. We are not and that is a fact.</font></div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">
</font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">hey u r in year back,they have now henri,kaddour,hugo and anigerian</font></div>
http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2013/10/29/4367167/sag-refutes-responsibility-for-postponement-of-img-reliances<br><br>From this article, there was never any official contract signed for lease of stadium at Fatorda for so called ISL. There was never any contract for anything-just calling journalist for tea and biscuit at Reliance office and putting some false news in media. Did they do anything about stadium in mumbai or say kanthareeva stadium in abngalore. Biut amazingly money exchanged hands-Star Sports signed deal for non existent league. Postponed my foot-after 6 months do you think they will create stadiums in air. They just made some excuse of Lusofonia games. If Lusofonia games were not there, they would have created some stadium in mumbai or repaired kanthareeva stadium in bangalore??? Just empty talks and rotation of black money nothing else.<br>By the way who is coming after 6 m,onths??? Messi or beckham or Iniesta or Xavi? Maybe Cristiano Ronaldo will come.<br><br>
Hmm..so you think football without fan is better league than the other while qualities of both the leagues are same. Needs to move out from jingoism here i guess!
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oh yeah? SE asian clubs are no better than the best indian clubs at our peak. both of you are still trapped on tv viewership+ fans in the stadium. both are irrelavent for the quality on the pitch.
Football is the no 1 sport there while for us its entirely skewed towards cricket. you remove red tapism here and the gap between us and SE asia will widen.