New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Mohun Bagans inability to find a sponsor is both agonizing and disturbing.

It might be the oldest football club in India and one of the oldest clubs in Asia - established in 1889 by eminent lawyer Bhupendra Nath Bose - but the absence of a big corporate sponsor since it parted ways with United Breweries-backed McDowell's has seen the club just about surviving the test of time.

The club's fans -- after the recent Derby loss, twice in the same I-League season -- have been upset with the current administration for not being able to rope in a big corporate house as a club sponsor. It has been four years since the club last had a major sponsor.

The two power houses of the club, Tutu Basu and Anjan Mitra, who ran the club...