Popsy, we did it!
We have had endless frustrating matches, endless discussions, your stories of watching East Bengal win, and me not even realising when, because of you, I fell in love with this club. But I would keep asking you to repeat stories of East Bengal’s glories because the last time we had won, I was just a kid cheering for a club her father, her idol, loved and supported.
When I cribbed and complained, you kept saying, “Be patient.” I could hear your frustration in the near misses and the hope in the way you punched the air. In your stories of travelling on the “padani” (the last stair of a bus) to watch a match. In today’s language, you would have been tagged as an East Bengal paglu.
And you made me an East Bengal paglu as well.
And we paglus have waited so long for this day.
You and I would have jumped and danced had you been here because we have finally done it, Popsy.
Miss you.
Thank you,
@NavanilBhattac4 , for the first pic and Agnijit Sen for the rest of the pics.
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