An American writer once said, “There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are; a price for everything.” It is a fitting phrase for the I-league, India’s premier club football competition, as an entity.…

Football cringes at the news of a team disbanding, particularly if it owns a significant historical factor. The news on one of Kolkata’s most legendary club Mohammedan Sporting dissolving saw people from across the football spectrum pay tribute to the Black Panthers who, at one point, carried Indian…