This was the 393rd meeting of the two sides - with East Bengal having won 139 games and Mohun Bagan boasting of 128 derby wins to date
Teams in action (Pic:@mohunbagansg/X)
It is most likely that you would assume an Indian sporting fixture that regularly attracts more than a lakh could only be a game of cricket. Certainly not in Kolkata, where on Saturday, hundreds of thousands thronged the city's Salt Lake Stadium for the latest instalment of the 'Boro Derby', as East Bengal locked horns with Mohun Bagan in what might well be the most heavily-attended and historically significant derby one has never heard of.
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