Today’s fixture between Chennai City and Gokulam is, as per Star’s listings update issued on Dec. 31, not listed for live telecast. So we thought it the best way to kick-off our brand new football live blogs while also acting as an impartial quality control mechanism. Stay with us for regular updates through the game including insider inputs on why this broadcast mess happened in the first place and what its implications are. Live blog GOAL!!! 17:19 IST, Jan 04 17' Gokulam Kerala score through the scenic route. A freekick from 40 yards is headed on to the post, and off the rebound Musa scores. Game on! Musa strikes Mudde Musa strikes for Gokulam Kerala FC in the 17th minute to negate the goal scored by Pedro Manzi.
As many as 30 games between Dec. 28 and the end of the season have been excluded from this broadcast schedule. (Get highlights of the Chennai City FC vs Gokulam Kerala FC (CCFC vs GKFC) I-League match below). A wide cross-section of stakeholders responded to this news by criticising the All India Football Federation, its commercial partner FSDL (a joint venture between Reliance and Star India) and the broadcaster, Star Sports. The most powerful statement came from club owners operating in the framework of the I-League. Seven clubs, including reigning champions Minerva Punjab FC and past winners Aizawl FC, formed the I-League (Private) Clubs Association. The clubs represent footballing interests from regions where football is widely played and enjoys a mass fanbase as well. Real Kashmir, Shillong Lajong, Neroca, Chennai City FC and Gokulam Kerala are the other founding members of the association.
“We all produce players and they want to kill the product, ” a despairing Bajaj old the press. “We will die and cease to exist if we stop fighting. ” The association called on the AIFF to resolve the issue by Jan. 5, 2018. Failing this they will approach civil courts in India and, potentially, FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (an independent institution based in Lausanne that aims to facilitate resolution of disputes in sport).
If not, try and guess which one Santana is!! Sunday on Friday! 18:00 IST, Jan 04 Would love for Sunday to score two more, for no other reason than, to use the sentence: On a game played on Friday, Sunday scored a hat trick. Broadcast info How do you rate the broadcast coverage of the I-League this season? In our assessment the overall production quality of the league this season has dipped to its lowest ever. One reason, perhaps, is the amount of money spent on the production process in the first place. Insiders have given us some indicative figures. Where an IPL game (including Hawk Eye and foreign operators) costs about 40 lakh to put on the air, the Indian Super League operates on a per game cost of about 10 lakh.
If you aren't watching this match (the South Indian derby, or as our editor Leslie Xavier calls it, the Palakkad Derby) then what are you doing? Granted it doesn't have the quality of last night's City vs Liverpool game, but it has drums! Drums! What is football without percussion. Croquet. Chennai in Coimbatore 17:34 IST, Jan 04 Another irony of the I-League. Chennai City play their home games in Coimbatore!!! PENALTY 17:38 IST, Jan 04 37' Abhishek Das's long delivery is caught on Channai City hand! Gokulam have a chance to go ahead!!! Gokulam takes lead 17:44 IST, Jan 04 38' Joel Sunday takes the penalty for Gokulam, gets blocked by the Chennai custodian Nauzet Santana. He follows through and scores off the rebound.
Gokulam 2-1 Chennai. 'Keeper blues 41' It is just awful when a goalkeeper saves the penalty only to see it go in from the rebound. Santana must feel awful. Terrible defending to concede it though. Added time, extra drama 17:47 IST, Jan 04 45+1 Arjun Jayaraj and Pandiyan Srinivasan forget the football and start some MMA Khabib-Conor style. The referee unfortunately isn’t a promoter, and sends them both off. Both teams will play the second half with 10 men. Half time 17:49 IST, Jan 04 Chennai City, the table toppers, the home team, the favourites, took the lead off a Pedro Manzi goal in the 7th minute.
In response, the AIFF has so far passed the buck on to the broadcast and commercial partners, saying it has only a limited say in these matters. The federation went on to say that clubs had been warned about this possibility if they failed to draw sizeable crowds for games and/or if the grounds “didn’t look good on TV”. The concession—that the dropped games will be streamed live on the internet through Reliance’s Jio TV and Star India’s Hotstar portals.
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