New Delhi, March 20 -- The growing divide in the East Bengal ranks has widened further in the last couple of days. While Quess East Bengal and investing company Quess did not attend the meeting of the executive committee of the club on Monday - to decide on participation in the Super Cup - Quess chairman Ajit Issac was present when the nine I-League clubs met in Chennai to shoot off a letter to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Tuesday.

The meeting of the nine clubs saw them jointly writing a letter to AIFF general secretary Kushal Das wherein they made it clear that they are willing to participate in the Super Cup if AIFF chief Praful Patel meets them to discuss the way forward for the I-League and the Indian Super League (ISL)....