Indian Football: Twitter reacts to India’s elimination from the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and Stephen Constantine’s resignation

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The Indian football fans suffered a major heartbreak on Monday as captain for the day, Pronay Halder, and his men bowed out of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup after holding Bahrain to a stalemate until the 90th minute. The readers can read the match report here.

The fans were quick to demand Stephen Constantine’s resignation as his tactic of parking the bus didn’t pay any dividends and the Indian players could hardly hold on to the ball. However, the frustration soon turned into a moment of solace as the Englishman announced his resignation at the post-match press conference.

While he did a substantially good job of improving India as a footballing nation, it wouldn’t be unfair to say that India could have performed much better in the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and the 2019 AFC Asian Cup under someone else’s guidance.

The Twitterati didn’t show any mercy on Stephen Constantine and showed sympathy towards the Blue Tigers who came agonizingly close to make it to the knockouts.