Mahindra prepare for swansong

May 27, 2010 - Age Correspondents |

Mumbai/kolkata

The curtain will fall on one of the premier football clubs in the city as Mahindra United, who will disband after the match, take on JCT in their last I-League encounter here on Thursday.

The club management’s decision last month to exit professional football and focus on the grassroots level came as a shock to fans, who will get one last chance to see their favourite team in action. Fourth after the penultimate round of the season, Mahindra would love to go out on a high, team manager Henry Menezes said.
“That’s what we always try to do, win,” said the former India goalkeeper on the eve of the match.
A victory will enable Mahindra to secure fourth place as Mohun Bagan, who are two points behind them with 36 to their credit, will then be unable to overhaul their tally.
Meanwhile, East Bengal will look to finish the season with a win when they take on over Viva Kerala at the Howrah Municipal Stadium in Kolkata on Wednesday, but the task is an uphill one as Phillippe de Ridder’s men are minus defenders Mehrajuddin Wadoo and Soumik Dey (injured) and suspended midfielder Mehtab Hossain.
The only relief for the camp is that East Bengal are no more in danger of being relegated even if they lose.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/15105" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-486e7e463bb6811c27f42ceaf8622109" value="form-486e7e463bb6811c27f42ceaf8622109" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="90028028" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>