Mohun Bagan president Swapan Sadhan Bose has now apologised for this comment (Original photo: Tanmay Chatterji/Facebook)

On Wednesday, Mohun Bagan won the 2018 Calcutta Football League (CFL), a big deal for football fanatics in Bengal. While the team was heading for this victory, team president Swapan Sadhan Bose scored his own sweet goal in sexism.

Let's tell you what happened, you'll enjoy this one.

It was when Mohun Bagan was leading with two goals against Calcutta Customs by half-time, imminently close to the CFL title that it hadn't had since 2009. Celebrations for the maroon-and-green team and supporters was already in the air.

Around this time, a TV presenter on local channel Sadhna News asked Bose how he was feeling about the impending win (mind you, this interaction was being live telecast during half-time!).

A grinning Bose slowly raised the mic to his mouth and confidently said, "Shath bocchor dhore meye hochhilo. Hotthath ekta chhele hoyeche. Ki rokom laage bhai tomar hole? Sherom lagche."

Translation: "Had daughters for seven consecutive years, suddenly a son is born. How would you feel then, brother? That's how I'm feeling now."

Here's a clip of him saying that:

This is how Mohun Bagan president Tutu Basu reacted after winning #CFL2018 title.

A distasteful sexist remark#Shame pic.twitter.com/I1LoiELX6v Ritabrata Banerjee (@ritabrata20) September 12, 2018

Did you hear that in the background? People laughed in response to that comment.

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Swapan Sadhan Bose, a former Rajya Sabha MP more commonly known as Tutu Bose, has now apologised for this comment.

"The joy of winning the league after eight years got me carried away, and I made some comments during the half-time. I never meant to say those things. Hurting anyone's sentiment was not my intention. My words hurt my loved ones. I am sorry for that."

"I have daughters-in-law at home. I have a granddaughter. I know the importance of having a girl child. I personally believe there is no difference between sons and daughters. Hence, I retract the comment I made yesterday. I say again, I did not intent on hurting anyone." - - Mohun Bagan president Swapan Sadhan Bose

Responding to this controversy, Bengal BJP leader Babul Supriyo tweeted in Bengali that not putting Tutu Bose's 'love' for Mohun Bagan "far above all controversies will be unfair".

We'd like to stress again here, the man compared the joy of a big win to having a son after daughters.

Let that sink in.