Fixtures ready for the Parallel8217; league

The AIFF senior vice-president PP Lakshmanan, however, sees no immediate threat to the official8217; National Football League, scheduled to begin on November 25. 8220;A parallel league is out of question because it is impractical,8221; he said. 8220;The Asian Football Confederation and the international federation FIFA are bound to take any such move seriously and will never allow such a thing to happen.8221;

The organisers of the proposed league, however, claim that they have the silent8217; backing of AFC officials. 8220;Once we start the league, they will give us the okay,8221; said one of them. He also claimed that a minimum of ten clubs out of the 12 that took part in the last NFL, have promised support to the new league. Besides, a leading television company has reportedly come up with a bid to cover the matches live.

Meanwhile, the sources close to the rebel group indicated that efforts were on for a patch up with the AIFF. 8220;We don8217;t want to go for a head on collision with the AIFF. All that we demand is justice. If they agree to our demands, we are ready for an amicable settlement,8221; they said.