Mohun Bagan was one of the eight clubs that failed to meet FIFA and AFC guidelines – as reported by AFC on 1st week of November. The AFC sent a team of experts in late October to check if the clubs were meting the criteria as per FIFA and AFC guidelines.”AFC has zeroed in on the cross-ownership issue of Bagan and East Bengal. If this matter is not resolved within the next two months, they could be scrapped from the I-League 2011-12,” I-League CEO Sunando Dhar said after a meeting between AFC delegates and AIFF officials in New Delhi on 2nd November 2010. Both clubs had Dr. Vijay Mallya as their Chairman and Director. Mr. Sidhartha V. Mallya has been appointed as an Additional Director of United Mohun Bagan Football Team Pvt. Ltd. to meet FIFA and AFC guidelines weeks before the deadline of 2 months.

A 19-member Mohun Bagan squad left for Ludhiana this morning to play the 5th I-league round against JCT – to be held on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2010. The team includes (alphabetical order): Ashim Biswas, Biswajit Saha, Dhanrajan R., Gouranga Dutta, Harpreet Singh, Ishfaq Ahmed, Jayanta Sen, Jose Barreto, Karan Atwal, Manish Maithani, Najimuddin Mollick, Rahul Kumar, Sangram Mukherjee, Satish Kumar (Jr.), Shilton Paul, Sk. Azim, Snehasish Chakraborty, Souvik Chakraborty, Subair Muritala Ali.
Chidi Edeh and Sagram Mandi were left out because of injuries.
Technical Director Subhash Bhowmick, Goalkeeper coach Hemanta Dora, Dr. Pratim Roy and  Masseur Gobinda Raj accompanied the team. Mohun Bagan is having a discussion to finalise the ‘A’ License coach by 30th Deember. The probables include Sujit Chakrabarty and Subrata Bhattacharya (Jr.).

 

No Indian club treasures its history more than Mohun Bagan about the team’s recent performance against Dempo SC is a mixed one. Bagan won against Dempo in the last match in Federation cup semi-final but failed to register its win against the defending Champions today as the match ended in a 2-2 draw. Bagan’s lowest point in iLeagues is generally agreed to be this year ( 1 point from 3 matches) before Subhash Bhowmick walked in as a Technical Director. The last match was away from home with Bagan going down 0-2. This evening, Bagan were at home, they were playing a formidable opponent and managed to split points.

That Dempo would commit every fibre of their being to the contest was predictable. That they would be the better side for swathes of the afternoon was not. Dempo, the club that has won the iLeague Cup more than any other, had to rely on  Ranty and Cliffton goals while for Bagan it was Muritala and Barreto. Shilton Paul, grossly criticised for his gallary show against Kingfisher East Bengal, saved Bagan from humiliation. But before that – Barreto messed with a penalty shoot out – which will haunt him for some time – and might remind him of last couple of seasons when he missed penalties.

Subhash Bhowmick changed the team a bit – handed over the gloves back to Shilton, brought back Azim, filled up the midfield with genuine midfielders and changed his strategy from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3.

Muritala scored the first goal in the 8th minute from a pass from Nazimuddin. In the 27th minute Barreto was tripped inside the penalty box by Noronha – and Bagan got a penalty. But Kuttimani saved Barreto’s shot.

Azim played really well to stop Ranty and Cliffton until 36th minute. A Shilton mistake became costly as Cliffton scored from a Carvalho pass – Azim failed to stop the move! Azim was replaced by Karan Atwal at the beginning of the second half. From 50th minute to 60th minute Dempo really kept pressure on Bagan defense- and during this period Shilton saved at least 3 goals.

Ashim replaced Gouranga in the 60th minute, and then Bagan started moving up a bit.

In the 75th minute Godwin Franco replaced Cliffton. In the 78th minute Shilton saved a Beto shot – and the ball went to Nicolas Borges – and his pass to unmarked Ranty made the damage for Bagan. Bagan immeditely came back into the match as Barreto scored in the 80th minute.Shilton then saved couple of more attempts by Dempo.
Shilton has been awarded the Man of the Match.

Mohun Bagan : Shilton, Azim (Karan), Dhanarajan, Rahul, Nazimuddin, Jayanta, Snehasish, Gouranga(Ashim), Souvik, Barreto, Muritala.

Dempo : Kattimani, Dias, Debabrata, Pixoto, Carvalho, Borges, Beto, Kalu, Norhonha, Cliffton (Franco), Ranty.
Yellow cards for Bagan – Sk. Azim, Jayanta Sen

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Subhash Bhowmick is appointed as the Technical Director of McDowell Mohun Bagan. Here is to say that yesterday Stanley Rozario, the ex-coach of McDowell Mohun Bagan resigned because of continuous poor performance of the team and the officials were finding the new coach for the team. There were few names on their pad but they appointed Subhas Bhowmick as the Technical Director of the team. Coach will be another person who has the AFC “A” license.

 

Subhash Bhowmick kept his cool in a Press Meet organised in the Club tent at 5 pm today. He did not promise much but definitely showed faith upon his team. The club has not announced the name of his Deputy – however he spent some good amount of time today with all the players.

Following are what fans said about the decision –

"subhash da ,welcome./..apnar haat dhorei abar bangal der 5 goal marbo" – Somak Ghosh @ Facebook

"Subhas r hath dhorei amra ghure darabo ei ashai rakhi.Ar bahu din dhorei I League amader starting ta erokomi hachhe.Ekhan thekeo ghure danrano jai sudhu chai sodichha.Hopefully Subhas Da amader sei poth e niye jaben.Joy MB" – Dipanjan Chatterjee @ Facebook

"Subhas da best of luck 4 upcoming Dempo match…………amra tomar sath a a6i….." – Debasis Sarkar @ Facebook

"All the best to Subhash and Mohun Bagan. Amra ghure daraboi. Joy Mohun Bagan." – Dr. Raj Shankar Ghosh @ Facebook

"subhas bhowmick …er haat dhorei asa kori …abar sei … sabuj maroon dhojo tule dhrbo amra……..bhombol …da asa kori … amader sei bharakranto mon ke dure soriye rekhe … sohosrodol e giye mathe hajir hobo ….. amader sei joyogathe jeno bojay thaake … bhombol da … asa kori …joy er mukh dekhaben ….eituku bhorsa roilo ….. joy mohunbagan ….." – Saptak Ghosh @ Facebook