Mumbai's football fraternity has been left heartbroken after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) general body on Tuesday approved a proposal to change the reservation of Bandra’s iconic Neville D’Souza football ground to a convention and exhibition centre.

The move has left the Mumbai Football Association (MFA) scrambling for alternative venues with its season already underway. MFA Treasurer Udayan Banerjee said the association had staged three protests and also sought political intervention to save the ground, but to no avail.