GodOf86 replies to an article by Dileep Premachandran on the Times and goes ahead to say that football in India (or soccer, for those who understand the world differently) is divided by classes of the society which has two “distinctly different levels of following” of the game:

The second are the classes. They support the ManUniteds, the Arsenals, the Barcelonas, the Juventuses and the Real Madrids. At ease with the world, the common passion of the world is theirs too. They look down upon Indian football as poor (which it is in comparison, in all honesty), and don’t have any cultural or emotional attachment to Indian football whatsoever. They would never have gone to a stadium to watch a football match (or rather, better put, never an Indian football match), and a large majority has probably kicked a football only a meagre few times in their lives. They do genuinely love the game though.