Category: Notice and Updates

Jermaine Pennant factor

Former Arsenal and Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant would play an important role against Mohun Bagan in AFC CL qualifying round on 27th Jan 2016. Jermaine Pennant have recently joined Tampine Rovers. He played for other English teams like Birmingham and Stoke. Pennant played for Pune City FC in ISL.

 

Bagan fails to impress

Mohun Bagan fails to impress today. This match will definitely keep the Head Coach into worries as the team goes to play AFC Champions League against Tampine Rovers.  Sony Norde was off colour, Yusa still making supporters nervous and Glen failing to convert opportunities into goals.

 

The Bagan defense made one mistake today and Ranty Martins , found off guard converts the mistake into a goal. However this could be debates if Ranty was in offside position. Glen did well to find the equalizer for Bagan. Bagan failed to take the advantage of an additional foreigner today. In the return league KEB will definitely have balance and will rather start as a better team than Bagan.

However it will still remain an unsolved mystery why the Indian referee can’t see fouls of Mehtab when it comes to iLeague.

Derby match – is AIFF prepared?

Is AIFF prepared for the big match for 2016 between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal? So far AIFF has taken some decisions that diluted discipline in ileague but benefited East Bengal, that includes not having a marquee player or open registration of the players.

The refereeing in the last few ileague sessions have been questioned many times, and impartiality of refereeing have been questioned particularly in the derby games on last few occasions. Is  AIFF carefully observing the movements of the match officials for this game and if they are being influenced ?

 

Is AIFF conducting dope tests for the players (mandetorily, no need to just pick a single player, let this be done for all players)

 

Not much of guidances are been heard from AIFF front that will ensure the upcoming game will be free and fair.