Cooperage Football Ground

This guide to Cooperage Football Ground in Mumbai opens in Melbourne in nineteen fifty six, when a young striker from a Goan village named Neville D'Souza scored a hat trick against the host nation at the Olympics. It follows him back to this pitch, opened in nineteen hundred and four, for a Rovers Cup win two years later, and traces the ground's path from a British colonial import to a First World War army camp to home of the Western India Football Association. The stadium holds five thousand people, and on a Rovers Cup night those seats still fill.