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This Sunday the City of Joy will not witness the much-awaited Kolkata derby in the 2019/20 I-League.
The match between Mohun Bagan AC and East Bengal Club originally scheduled to be held at Kolkata’s Saltlake Stadium on Sunday, December 22, a formal letter from the office of the Dy. Commissioner of Police, Bidhannagar to Mohun Bagan has cited that “organising a full-scale match on 22.12.2019 shall be quite challenging for all the stakeholders.”
The letter further “requested” the home team (Mohun Bagan) “to restrict the total number of saleable tickets.”
In a subsequent letter, Mohun Bagan director Debashis Dutta on behalf of the host team (Mohun Bagan), has requested the I-League organisers to reschedule the said match, mentioning that such a restriction would take away the “opportunity of thousands of football lovers to cheer for their favourite team from the stands.”
