Bengaluru has submitted a conditional bid....the winner gets an Asian slot...this doesn't look like happening..I think aunty didnt budget for AFC having a spine despite sponsoring PP to a VP slot. This circus needs the big 2 onboard for it to even get super cup winners an Asian slot....u cant have a bunch of mysteriously owned franchises playing a pvt tournament & following NO licencing criteria demanding & getting an Asian slot.bad precedent which AFC won't be able to justify
With this logic tomorrow the winners of kerela 7's circuit should demand an Asian slot. They certainly have more paying spectators than the circus & they also have invested absolutely NOTHING in development of infrastructure /academies
Itd be great if u guys could STFU with ur negativity. Wait till we have some thing official . That article quoted some bengali newspaper as the source , good luck with that.
@DX: As you said, only Bengal has crowds, even if they are frivolous...going by that logic (which I don't),only in Bengal, papers report about football, even if they are unreliable Let us not bring chauvinism/regionalism into this forum
ATK in an owner's meeting, they will shut shop if EB MB enters ISL from Kolkata. Imgr WB Govt wants big 2 in, TV viewership would jump up multi fold with that. WB CM has informed to Reliance that, ATK won't get YBK.
Why blame Bengali Press? English newspapers / websites have not been reliable either in this saga. Fairy tale of "Green Light" emerged on 13th May only with "everything has been agreed upon", "AFC will not say no" and "Dato Windsor of AFC personally coming to make announcement on 24th May" and "Mythical Tata Group doing this doing that" -all those proved to be a damp squib.
Keep Calm and wait for official announcement - if any- on 7th June.
"A report in the Bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika suggested that two franchisee are likely to withdraw from the private league, that the AIFF Marketing partners are hell bent on getting recognised by AFC and FIFA."
Does that sentence even work grammatically? You spelled "recognized" wrong! And we are supposed to believe this report from an obviously biased "reporter"?
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Let us not bring chauvinism/regionalism into this forum
Believe what you will though.
Keep Calm and wait for official announcement - if any- on 7th June.
Does that sentence even work grammatically? You spelled "recognized" wrong! And we are supposed to believe this report from an obviously biased "reporter"?