Football, badminton and hockey struggling to cope with unreal stratospheric expectations


ONE of the biggest challenges for the nation’s three biggest sports – football, badminton and hockey – is to cope with the stratospheric expectations from the public.

So happened the three sports have come under intense scrutiny only weeks into the new year.

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