Did The Indian Football Team Play 1948 Olympics Barefoot Because They Couldn't Afford Boots?
By Archis Chowdhury An image showing three Indian football players walking barefoot in the football field during the 1948 London Olympics is being shared with the claim that their loss to France during the Olympics was due to the fact that India could not afford to buy their football players shoes to play with. The post is shared with the aim of taking a dig at the Gandhi-Nehru family, who helmed Indian politics post-Independence. BOOM found this claim to be false; looking through archives of news reports from the Olympics, along with more recent reports about India's first appearance in the O...