Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 - Paperbackby Kausik Bandyopadhyay (Author) This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio cultural life. It explains how football became a viable popular social force with a rare emotional spontaneity and peculiar self expressive fan culture against the background of anti