On the basis of recent cases, such as those of FC Bengaluru United and Sreenidhi FC, 420 Grams examines the turf-guarding that seems to be dominating the expansion of football leagues (Indian Super League – ISL and I-League) in India.
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This Independence Day weekend 420 Grams talk about some of the biggest transfer stories in Indian football ahead of the new season. Renedy Singh and Ishfaq Ahmed, sporting champions of independent India, give perspective on what the numbers mean and whether, finally, India’s footballers are beginning to find financial freedom.
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The 420 Grams crew sits down with former India players Renedy Singh and Ishfaq Ahmed to pick their India’s Best XI to play in the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. This video went online as a live chat on Sunday, August 10.
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The Indian football team has played nine fixtures so far under Igor Stimac with just one positive result – a 1-0 victory over Thailand at the King’s Cup. In this episode, the 420 Grams crew sits down with former India players Renedy Singh and Ishfaq Ahmed to analyse the national …
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In the third and final installment of the series, Newsclick’s 420 Grams panel speak to Renedy Singh, who recounts his playing days at the club. The former Indian football team skipper tells us why the club’s fans have a big say in the sporting success of East Bengal.
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420 Grams commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of East Bengal with a three part series featuring its history. In Part 2 of this special series on East Bengal FC, which celebrated its 100th anniversary on August 1, our panelists Jaydeep Basu and Siddhanth Aney sit down with club …
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Joining the 420 grams crew on the show is former AIFF national team director, Delhi Dynamos and East Bengal FC advisor Tathagatha Mukherjee. They talk about various aspects of the foreign player rule and a ground-up vs. top-down approach to developing the sport. This episode was aired live on Facebook …
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ATK Mohun Bagan – Jaydeep Basu, Siddhanth Aney and Arjun Pandit talk about why this matters to everyone with an interest in football and India. This show was streamed live on Facebook at 1900 on July 11, 2020 and is being reposted here for the friends of 420 grams on …
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With no sport on the horizon, administrators seem to have all the time in the world to play politics. Over the past few weeks we have seen power struggles in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), tussles between the BCCI and the ICC, doping violations and the derecognition of 54 National …
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East Bengal and Mohun Bagan have given India’s football fans a great deal to talk about over the past 100 years. But all that history might amount to nothing if the boro match rivals don’t read the writing on the wall. Jaydeep Basu, who has covered the rivalry for 35 …
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