Football Fans Protest Against Club Investor, Clash With Cops In Kolkata

Hundreds of football fans had gathered to demand that East Bengal play the Indian Super League

Five people were injured and around 60 were arrested when supporters of East Bengal Football Club clashed with the police outside the club gates in Kolkata on Wednesday. Hundreds of football fans had gathered there to demand that East Bengal play the Indian Super League, but the club's talks with the investors, a private cement company, have been deadlocked and ISL seems a distant dream. Rival groups of fans had gathered there on Wednesday afternoon in huge numbers, breaking Covid protocol, and refused to budge when the police announced they must. The police then baton-charged the crowd to disperse it. The five were injured during this time.