Kolkata rape-murder | When rivals reconcile: Football foes find common cause
Updated On: 23 August, 2024 10:20 AM IST | Srijanee Majumdar
The Durand Cup derby, scheduled for Sunday at Salt Lake Stadium, was cancelled due to ‘security concerns’ arising from extensive protests throughout the city
Supporters of East Bengal and Mohun Bagan protest against the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor, near Salt Lake stadium, in Kolkata. Pic/PTI
As a child, Avirup Ganguly was forbidden from wearing yellow, a restriction imposed by his father, a fervent Mohun Bagan fan.
“You can’t ever wear yellow, we are Ghotis (inhabitants of West Bengal). It is not the colour we represent,” he would insist, equating the colour with East Bengal, Bagan’s long-time rivals, whom he had ‘despised all his life’, as Avirup says.
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