Football Lovers’ Day observed with blood donation camps

KOLKATA - Altogether 1,149 soccer lovers of West Bengal donated blood on the occasion of the Football Lovers’ Day Sunday.

While 685 of them gave their blood at the town hall, 464 soccer fans donated blood in the districts to remember 16 football lovers who died in a stampede after a derby league game between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan on this day in 1980.