CALCUTTA SOCCER
By Debabrata Chowdhury
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Cheema Okorie ridiculed
Mohd. Sporting’s Cheema Okorle shoots goalwards against Eastern Railway. Mohd. Sporting won 1-0
HEEMA Okorie, who won the who heave a sigh of reef but also change in the Mohammedan de
hearts of the’ Mohammedan the police as wall fone oastam dna pian
fons in the earlier games was the raw or defeat for abig teem Ns piace was taken by Mushet
subject much rdeulewhen Mo, yA GfOw orafeatforabigream AOC was taken By Mushec
hammedan Sporting “feced the JurarsSuagre.chmaubieandever, neu place than his erstwhile pos
Acyans Club in the Calcutta Soccer facae"maree to" avery Gime a ton aga wingback The defence a
league costs. So itis quite natural thatre- whole looked more stronger tha
With the rafrge Tarsk Sen re: ferees would bend the rules to sur Before and. the atfine too wit
maining placid, Cheema could-scale the big teams, And the authonties Amira} and Prem Dorn lagking mor
coach Mohammed Abdus Sattarin: sucha situation on! ‘once mobi.
{ervened and took him off thirteen Mohammedan won the match _Moiduls asenco after along lon
minutes trom tree under reviews by two goals torthe ima was, however, not without on
Scorers boing Arup Ose and Shab: reason. Reporte ate coming abou
Bir Ali With the’ primary job of hist wnth Prasun Benonesane ty
Securing the three points ai stake tres slog nurtour tat Some ek
: finshed the Mohartmedan players officals have gone against hi T
ly punishment Dut es, everyone — Ganotmingtumingita dllstarin enposts, weld take sarne Git
hows referees in Calcutta do not the second session. The response betore everything is settled amica:
dare send offa player ofbigcib for from the Aryans boys, seme of th. By °
protection from the authonties and Sm battered and brulsed. were als Shabbir Ali ie perhaps the oni,
he a8 a family to sustain Not unna- cama in to witness @ close battle Mehammeden Sporuing player whe
{urally wnenover the big. toaras came, 30 fo witness ‘sting hard to acl 98°2 Unk bat
Score 8 goal against their weaker _ eethome dojected ‘ween the offence and the defange
‘opponents it is'not only their fans’ Against Aryans there, wes a and itis he who hes, oes am
For his frenzied acts. all that
Cheema earned was a yellow card
when an ouster looked to be the on-ed
Tussle in the air for sipremacy but East Bengal's Jamshed
peer gre fo frat iv thelr match against Ralleay F.C, Est
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the teams attacking machine mov.
ing. Apart from thet his penchant
for goals atleast at the club lave! 's
stilthere. He, however, railed t0.do
justice to himself in the game
‘against Tollygunge Agragam:. The
‘only solace for him was that ho laid
‘on the only goal for Arup Das.
Narinder Thapa came to Calcutta
with high hopes but upto now he
has done little precious. The only
thing is that he keeps on trying
which sadly for him has not been
snough,
Humid
The day East Bengal wore to
‘mest Behala Youth was hot and hu-
id but the gallery was packed to
capacity. The reason wes obvious,
The Behala boys had earlier drawn
their game against Mohun Bagan.
‘Would they be able to repeat the
show now? In the end they could
‘ROL but they had the consolation of
scoring the first goal against East
Bengal this season
twas general consenus that had
Moniranjan. Bhattacharjee played
the goal it could have baon avoided.
May or may not be true, but itis 2
fact the sturdy defenders a source
‘inspiration to his colleagues. A
inor injury kept him out of the
me ag it-did in the subsequent
(eme against Taltalia by five goals
Yo one and East Bengal were able 10
hit only one, So this tells the full tale
of East Bengals mediocrity but th-
ey looked a shade better against
Benala
Verbal duet
The game will, however, be re
membered for he verbal duel coach
KM. Banerjee had with the sup:
porters both during and after the
Game. Their grievance was that all
the East Bengal players were dir
fecting their passes towards Debe:
shish Roy while Jamshed Nassin
was being ignored totally. PX. dis
missed all this as rubbish and he
attributed. tho goal against East
Bongal to the fact that his players
suffered from a lapse in concentra.
tion following too much and much
hhuo and cry was raised by the fans.
The supporters in general are also
not happy Krish
Used. PK’ version ie that since the
player is undergoing a treatment for
2 torn ligament using him in this
State would only aggravate the in
jury. Fed up with poor show by their
{team the supporters in companson
ware in a better frame of mind
Wwhert their team beat Rajasthan
Club by tree goals to nil. Rajastan'sBabu Mani of Mohun Bagan (notin pic) s« rte STEN Reine We
strength, theorencally at least 1s
Soccer %:”
ee ee
alteady onough at his disposal
Failed
two and tl
war ge
inspired the other boys great ce
The football activites of the club
would from now on be looked after
by the venerabie Sailen Manna. Th
ago follwing ihe Foto
sehea8 cham SeSwerrs copars |
Ire tor Bombay. Chuninceuntly
sei eas one attempt to hick the ballot of his hands. This
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