India, Nov. 14 -- You can take football out of the Supreme Court but you cannot take the Supreme Court out of football. As the season splutters and stalls, that's where most of the action is. And while argumentative Indians articulate their version of how the sport should be run, clubs suspend operations.

That is how things have been since last Friday when All India Football Federation (AIFF) found no one was interested in running Indian Super League (ISL). The process to seek bids was monitored by the Supreme Court and based on the new AIFF constitution it had approved and a Request For Proposal was prepared by a firm of international renown.

Do that and the country's top league, allegedly given to a private party for a pittance, will ...