Tbilisi said:
suvommukherjee08 said:
Why will City buy an un-original team like East-Bengal??They are not even the local team in Kolkata.Locals here are Mohun Bagan Supporters like me and many others.East Bengal are just a fake bunch who claims they are the local team when their originality is from Bangladesh (thats why the term East Bengal).West Bengal has one team,with Great History and its Mohun Bagan,BTW even East Bengal's kit has red and every red coloured kit team sucks.
I like your red comment,so true.
East Bengal sound like an Indian united.
Nah, Tblisi, the red has nothing to do with United and East Bengal is nothing like the filth. East Bengal's kit is red and yellow halves - abit like some Galatasaray kits. My 2nd team is East Bengal and I can tell you there is nothing fake at all about East Bengal - Kolkata is a passionate football City and there are three main clubs, East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting. A lot of people from Kolkata support East Bengal and not just people who migrated from what is now Bangladesh. My family on my late Dad's side were from what was then India and is now Bangladesh (it was India before the British fucked up and India was Partitioned in 1947) as it happens - so what? A lot of people of Irish extract support City (as well as you know who) - it's similar.
There's no more arrogance at East Bengal than there is at Mohun Bagan. Check out the "West Bengal has one team,with Great History and its Mohun Bagan" comment. Does that sound familiar? "History/istree"?
Mohun Bagan supporters sound like bitter United fans - they're a joke. I HATE that club almost as much as I hate United. Fuck Mohun Bagan.
If you look back in history they and another club, the dodgily named Aryans, tried to stop 2nd Division Champions East Bengal getting promoted in the 1920s to the Calcutta League First Division. If anything is plastic it's Mohun Bagan...sounds a bit like the cartel that United Liverpool and co operate now. If Mohun Bagan supporters want to make prejudicial remarks about Bangladesh that's their problem. Fuck 'em.
If anything East Bengal are more like Celtic or AEK Athens, particularly the latter. Founded by Indian immigrants from what is now Bangladesh. I'm as proud to support East Bengal as I am Manchester City. City are the local team of my youth, and I'll always be Blue. Had I been a Kolkatan I'd have been East Bengal first and well proud of it like I always been of City first.
Love Manchester City, Love East Bengal too.