How good or bad is Mohun Bagan and East Bengal's grounds? Cant they play their home games in their respective home grounds? The derby matches can be plaued at Salt Lake Stadium. This way they can earn more revenue from Gate receipts and cheaper for them to hosg games.
Well, they are not best in the state (far from it), but playable. Turf is OK; in fact, any natural turf in Bengal is good. There is negligence in terms of maintenance because this activity does not get you on the newspapers. Also, there are lack of other facilities also like press room, dressing rooms Refs room and mixed zone.
Considering very few few stadiums have them, I think both the grounds are fit to stage I-league matches, with some sprucing up work.
It will be so much more fun to watch ileague in the MB ground....it even has floodlights and crowd will close to action, a proper football stadium. But can the truf be maintained if the team practicies and hosts matches there?
Today is the 22nd Death Aniversary of Mohun Bagan's best administrator Dhiren Dey. A personal account of Dhiren Dey by his co-worker Dhiraj Bandopadhay.
-The Man behind the construction of concrete stands in MB ground. He called up then Home Minister Jagjiban Ram and PM Indira Gandhi after Army had denied them the permission to build the stands. The permission arrived in an hour. -Dey's Medical were working together with Sterling Winthrop in creating medicines. Dhiren Dey contacted Cosmos via them -Interesting fact that in 1987 after New York Cosmos's trip, Dey had lined up Arsenal for an exhibition match only for rules regarding transfer of foreign currency to come in between
May be within 2-3 years India will be the destination for pre season of EPL teams. I league XI isn't far behind of Malaysia XI or Singapore XI . huge market. Popularity of EPL. Wonder why they used to skip India.
Club managers like Dey are like rare species these days. They were kind of 'benevolent dictators' -- good for the club, ruled with a iron fist. They gave their time and money to the upliftment of the club and the game.
Today's operators just utilize the social/ political standing of the club management to further their own cause ...
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Today is the 22nd Death Aniversary of Mohun Bagan's best administrator Dhiren Dey. A personal account of Dhiren Dey by his co-worker Dhiraj Bandopadhay.
-The Man behind the construction of concrete stands in MB ground. He called up then Home Minister Jagjiban Ram and PM Indira Gandhi after Army had denied them the permission to build the stands. The permission arrived in an hour.
-Dey's Medical were working together with Sterling Winthrop in creating medicines. Dhiren Dey contacted Cosmos via them
-Interesting fact that in 1987 after New York Cosmos's trip, Dey had lined up Arsenal for an exhibition match only for rules regarding transfer of foreign currency to come in between
Today's operators just utilize the social/ political standing of the club management to further their own cause ...
http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31812&articlexml=Sen-targets-CFL-Premier-Div-title-17072015021097
As Sony Norde will not play in CFL, a new striker is bound to rise. And Sen is known to nurture young players. This years CFL is going to be interesting, title or not ...