It is not just FIFA that is heating up with the round of 32 in progress, miles away in Mumbai, the football turf war is sizzling too. The fight to keep a Bandra (West) playground, near Lilavati Hospital and next to the Bombay Art Society, as a football ground is heating up.

Furkan Shaikh, a social activist, is garnering signatures for his petition online on the Change.org platform at a steady clip. At last count, the petition called, 'Bandra needs Playgrounds, not Convention Centres' had surpassed 13,000 signatures, and we were still counting.