You know, yaar, I was listening to Kishore Kumar on the drive home from work yesterday, and it hit me — that 2020 AFC Cup night against Maziya, when the whole of Goa seemed to be holding its breath? That felt like a promise, khub bhalo. But now, when I see our Gaur Army boys getting picked apart by bigger spending clubs, I wonder if we are forgetting that real football is like my local chaatwala — it thrives on the ground, not on the balance sheet. Sometimes I think we need to slow down, watch the academy lads more, before we let the big money men decide who gets to play.