You may believe – rightly – that cricket is the top sport in India, but football has a long history and the Kolkata Derby, the ‘Boro Match’, has attracted crowds of more than 130,000 as recently as the 1990s.
Kolkata is also the home of Asia’s oldest league and cup competitions. We talk to Indian football writer Somnath Sengupta to get to understand this often-overlooked football-mad country.
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