Kolkata: The Calcutta Football League may have lost its position of pre-eminence but 80,000 spectators turned up at the Salt Lake Stadium on Sunday to show that a great rivalry it spawned is still alive and kicking.

It was the 4-0 scoreline that did quite not fit the script of what is almost always a tight, taut showdown. But, then, it was not the first time that Mohun Bagan had suffered such ignominy at the hands of East Bengal.