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  • ATK Mohun Bagan AGM overshadowed by protests, membership officers attraction for calm

    Slogans of ‘Remove ATK’ reached the membership tent of ATK Mohun Bagan on Saturday as loyal supporters of ATK Mohun Bagan as soon as once more vented their anger earlier than the membership’s Annual General Meeting (AGM).
    Alleging that the historical past and legacy of their beloved century-old membership is being repeatedly tarnished, a lot of followers gathered in entrance of the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club beating drums and shouting on microphones. Another group protested in entrance of CESC House in Dharmatala, demanding that the prefix ‘ATK’ be eliminated and the ‘contentious’ third equipment not worn.
    Towards the night a protest march with round 300 folks was additionally taken out from the Eden Gardens space in the direction of the Mohun Bagan membership tent.
    As the group swelled, police was known as in to disperse the big gathering since there have been fears that the membership’s annual common assembly could be disrupted.

    During the AGM, ATK Mohun Bagan director and Mohun Bagan secretary Srinjoy Bose was confronted with the identical question. In reply, he assured followers that each one their considerations might be resolved quickly. Comparing the MB-KGSPL cope with the erstwhile McDowell’s, Bose stated, “Going forward, whatever we win will be mentioned as trophies won by Mohun Bagan.”
    Mohun Bagan legend and former captain Subrata Bhattacharya, who attended the assembly, was requested by the media on his views on the rising voices of discontent to which the 67-year-old stated, “I will have to look into the matter but if commentators are using the word ATK then that is their fault. The heritage of the club deserves respect.”
    Fans level
    Ever since ATK Mohun Bagan FC sported their third equipment in black, similarities between their jersey and erstwhile ATK’s away equipment in 2019 has been rife. Fans have alleged that resorting again to ‘a defunct club jersey’ is one other signal of disrespect in the direction of the 130-year-old Mohun Bagan whose main colors are inexperienced and maroon. ATKMB’s present away is a mix of white and maroon, one thing a variety of supporters love.

    “Whenever there is an attempt to promote the brand of ATK we have protested. The black colour is not the issue but a close look will tell anybody that the design is the same as that of last season’s defending champions ATK – which is now defunct,” Tuhin Patel, one of many followers protesting at Dharmatala, final month had informed The Indian Express.
    “We have no problem with the stakeholders. Our only problem is with repeated publicity of brand ATK. We as diehard supporters of the club feel that this is an insult to the legacy of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club – established in the year 1889 with more than 100 major title victories,” he added.
    Noticeably, nearly all ISL matches, witnessed ‘fan wall’ individuals holding up ‘Remove ATK’ indicators.

    Different sort of posters are hanging within the fan wall so, the admins of Fan wall take away one among our members however 5 are nonetheless there. #PleasureMohunBagan #Theresistance #RemoveATK#KhelaHobe #greenandmaroonwarriors pic.twitter.com/HU0gQVkwb6
    — Green & Maroon Warriors (@gmwarriors_17) February 6, 2021
    “Never compromise with their own mother club’s respect, legacy, and heritage. We tried our best to keep our promise and the fight will continue, let’s roar #RemoveATK together,” learn a press release from a Mariners fan web page.

  • Mohun Bagan AGM overshadowed by protests, controversial third package to be withdrawn

    Slogans of ‘Remove ATK’ reached the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club tent as loyal supporters as soon as once more vented their anger through the membership’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday.
    Alleging that the historical past and legacy of their beloved century-old membership is being repeatedly tarnished, a bunch of 50-100 followers gathered in entrance of the membership’s premises, beating drums and shouting slogans on microphones. Elsewhere, one other group demonstrated in entrance of the CESC House in Dharmatala, demanding that the prefix ‘ATK’ be eliminated and the ‘contentious’ third package is completed away with.
    Towards the night a protest march with round 200 folks was additionally taken out from the Eden Gardens space in direction of the Mohun Bagan membership tent.
    As the gang swelled, the police was known as in to disperse the massive gathering since there have been fears that the membership’s annual normal assembly is likely to be disrupted.

    During the meet, three members raised the problem which was famous by the committee. After the AGM, ATK Mohun Bagan Director, Debashis Dutta spoke to The Indian Express and shared his views on the sustained marketing campaign by the supporters. Comparing the MB-KGSPL take care of the erstwhile McDowell’s, Dutta mentioned, “Three-four of our members have told that we don’t want ATK before Mohun Bagan and we have clarified it to them that ATK is a brand just like earlier it was McDowell Mohun Bagan and they accepted it.”
    On the problem jersey, he mentioned, “That we have accepted. This will not be there going forward and there will be another type of jersey. As far as commentators using the word ATK, that is out of our hand but we have told Star Sports.”
    “However, some former players intentionally use the word ATK on Star Sports (Bengali) to create this nuisance but now it has been stopped.”
    Mohun Bagan legend and former captain Subrata Bhattacharya, who attended the assembly, was requested by the media on his views on the rising voices of discontent to which the 67-year-old mentioned, “I will have to look into the matter but if commentators are using the word ATK then that is their fault. The heritage of the club deserves respect.”
    Fans level
    Ever since ATK Mohun Bagan FC sported their third package in black, similarities between their jersey and erstwhile ATK’s away package in 2019 has been rife. Fans have alleged that resorting again to ‘a defunct club jersey’ is one other signal of disrespect in direction of the 130-year-old Mohun Bagan whose main colors are inexperienced and maroon. ATKMB’s present away is a mixture of white and maroon, one thing lots of supporters love.

    “Whenever there is an attempt to promote the brand of ATK we have protested. The black colour is not the issue but a close look will tell anybody that the design is the same as that of last season’s defending champions ATK – which is now defunct,” Tuhin Patel, one of many followers protesting at Dharmatala, final month had instructed this web site.
    “We have no problem with the stakeholders. Our only problem is with repeated publicity of brand ATK. We as diehard supporters of the club feel that this is an insult to the legacy of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club – established in the year 1889 with more than 100 major title victories,” he had added.
    Noticeably, nearly all ISL matches, witnessed ‘fan wall’ contributors holding up ‘Remove ATK’ indicators.

    Different kind of posters are hanging within the fan wall so, the admins of Fan wall take away one among our members however 5 are nonetheless there. #PleasureMohunBagan #Theresistance #RemoveATK#KhelaHobe #greenandmaroonwarriors pic.twitter.com/HU0gQVkwb6
    — Green & Maroon Warriors (@gmwarriors_17) February 6, 2021
    “Never compromise with their own mother club’s respect, legacy, and heritage. We tried our best to keep our promise and the fight will continue, let’s roar #RemoveATK together,” learn a press release from a Mariners fan web page.

  • ATK Mohun Bagan clubbed with Bangladesh and Maldives sides in AFC Cup group stage

    Indian Super League workforce ATK Mohun Bagan was on Wednesday clubbed with Bangladesh’s Basundhara Kings, Maldives’ Maziya S&RC and one yet-to-qualify facet within the Group D of this season’s AFC Cup.
    The group stage draw of the continent’s second-tier membership competitors involving 39 groups — a rise of three from 2019 — was held on-line right here.
    The Group D (South Zone) matches of the AFC Cup will start on May 14 at a yet-to-be-decided centralised venue.
    The winner of the group after a single round-robin league will advance to the knock-out stage.
    Fellow ISL facet Bengaluru FC may very well be the yet-to-qualify facet as they face the winner of the play-off preliminary spherical one conflict between Nepal Army Club and Sri Lanka Police within the preliminary spherical two on April 14.

    In the opposite preliminary spherical two conflict, Bangladesh’s Abahani Dhaka will face the winner of Maldives’ Club Eagles and Bhutan’s Thimphu City.
    The winners of the 2 preliminary spherical two matches will sq. off in a play-off conflict on April 21 and the winner of that recreation will be part of the opposite three golf equipment in Group D.
    ATK Mohun Bagan took Mohun Bagan’s AFC Cup group stage slot which they earned as I-League winners final season.
    As a consequence the qualifying preliminary spherical two slot which was saved for the champions of ISL champions — that’s ATK — went to Bengaluru FC, the third-place finishers within the league part of the ISL 2019-20 season.
    The AFC Cup play-offs slot ought to have gone to the runners-up of the league part of ISL 2019-20 season. But since ATK had completed runners-up, Bengaluru FC acquired the prospect to be within the play-offs stage of the AFC Cup.

  • ‘Remove ATK from Mohun Bagan’: Mariners hit streets in protest over jersey situation

    ‘Remove ATK’ was one of many prime developments on social media in West Bengal over the previous weekend as loyal supporters of ATK Mohun Bagan vented their ire alleging the historical past and legacy of the membership are being broken most of the time.
    On Sunday, ATKMB followers hit the streets, raised slogans in entrance of the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club tent, after which marched with posters in entrance of CESC House in Dharmatala, Kolkata, demanding that the prefix ATK be eliminated and the third equipment design be modified.

    আজকে @atkmohunbaganfc এর কর্তীপক্ষের বিরুদ্ধে প্রতিবাদ বিক্ষোভ চলছে @CESCLimited কলকাতা হাউস এর সামনে ,,
    মোহন জনতার দাবি টা খুব স্পষ্ট- #RemoveATK#OnlyMohunBagan ✊✊#joymohunbagan ✊💚❤@atkmohunbaganfc@IndSuperLeague @sbotopin @rpsggroup @IndianFootball pic.twitter.com/MkZEgRzkp0
    — Mariner (@Sayak61) January 24, 2021
    Ever since ATK Mohun Bagan FC sported their third equipment in black, similarities between their jersey and erstwhile ATK’s third equipment in 2019 has been rife. Fans have alleged that resorting again to ‘a defunct club jersey’ is an indication of disrespect in the direction of the 130-year-old Mohun Bagan whose major color is inexperienced and maroon.
    “Whenever there is an attempt to promote the brand of ATK we have protested. The black colour is not the issue but a close look will tell anybody that the design is the same as that of last season’s defending champions ATK – which is now defunct,” mentioned Tuhin Patel, one of many followers protesting at Dharmatala.
    “We have no problem with the stakeholders. Our only problem is with repeated use of the black jersey and publicity of brand ATK. We as diehard supporters of the club feel that this is an insult to the legacy of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club – established in the year 1889 with more than 100 major title victories,” he added.
    There have been additionally protests CESC Branch Office at Shyambazar and Bhupen Bose Avenue within the metropolis with banners caught beside them.
    One of the protest banners made by the Mohun Bagan trustworthy.
    This isn’t the primary occasion the place followers have voiced their anger with the membership administration. Ever since Mohun Bagan merged with ATK in January 2020, the place the RPSG Group turned the bulk shareholders within the new membership together with Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited to emerge as ATK Mohun Bagan FC, there have been a number of factors of variations.
    Earlier there was rising resentment amongst followers and large social media fury surrounding the ISL promo and using three stars on the coaching jersey. Ardent supporters of the membership had expressed their unhappiness and identified that the three stars stitched on the coaching jersey have been symbolic of ATK’s Indian Super League (ISL) titles together with the phrases ‘Champions 2019-20’.
    Now, with the black jersey, which was utilized by ATK of their remaining season, coming again because the third equipment for ATKMB has left a number of them fuming.
    A big part of supporters at the moment are demanding the entire disassociation from ATK and the elimination of the prefix earlier than Mohun Bagan. This was even seen through the dwell telecast of a match the place a fan who was a par of the fanwall television put an indication of ‘Remove ATK’.
    ‘Remove ATK’ performed up through the dwell telecast of a match. (Screengrab) 
    “RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Sbotop India we want to assure you that we have no problems with your investment for our motherclub #MohunBaganAc but atk name must not be present there,use the investor or sponsor name infront of Mohun Bagan,but complete Branding of atk must be stopped for atkmohunbaganfc,” learn an announcement from the Mariners fan web page.
    “Officials have to take responsibility so that our team can play ISL- Indian Super League without the name of any “dead football club” atk- It is their obligation, not ours, they’re within the chair.
    “any x,y,z sponsor or investor can be placed in front of Mohun Bagan but not our old city rival Atk!”
    Last time, the ATKMB administration had modified the promo taking cognizance of the net fury. Now, it stays to be seen how far issues will escalate because the followers are unwilling to relent on the jersey situation.

  • ISL 2020-21: Mumbai pip East Bengal, open up five-point lead at prime

    Image Source : TWITTER/MUMBAICITYFC For Mumbai, they stretched their unbeaten run to 11 matches as they now have 29 factors from 12 matches.
    Mumbai City FC downed SC East Bengal by a solitary objective to consolidate their place atop the standings with a 5 point-lead within the Indian Super League right here on Friday.
    The Kolkata giants displayed a positive passing recreation, performed with intent however a momentary lapse in defence within the twenty seventh minute price them three factors on the Tilak Maidan Stadium.

    A horror of defence from the Red and Gold noticed Mourtada Fall give the lead from a Cy Goddard nook.
    The Senegalese centre again was left unmarked contained in the field as he utilised Hugo Boumous’ cross to perfection along with his hovering header to offer Mumbai the all-important objective.
    The win opened up a five-point lead over ATK Mohun Bagan atop the 11-team standings because it additionally ended a seven-match unbeaten streak of SC East Bengal who slumped to tenth place with 12 factors from 13 matches.

    For Mumbai, they stretched their unbeaten run to 11 matches as they now have 29 factors from 12 matches.
    The Robbie Fowler-coached facet put up a greater show within the second half and ended up having a 60 per cent share of possession and a greater passing accuracy however they have been merely unable to seek out that leading edge to transform their share of possibilities.
    Nigerian Bright Enobakhare’s deft contact within the 74th minute arrange Anthony Pilkington contained in the field however the Irishman’s shot was wayward and sailed over the crossbar.
    In the 79th minute, Narayan Das’ highly effective shot from the left flank had dropped straight on the roof of the web. In the 87th minute, Harmanpreet Singh additionally wasted a possibility as he did not preserve his header heading in the right direction after Aaron Holloway curled in a superb cross.
    “Obviously we had a sloppy first-half. We were solid in the second-half but could not take our chances. We probably should have won the game otherwise. We are very disappointed,” Pilkington mentioned.