India, Oct. 24 -- It's been five days between the IFA Shield final and when this issue was being put together. In that time, I have heard or read nothing suggesting what happened last Saturday was organised. So, it will have to be assumed that it was organic. Half of the Salt Lake stadium kept mum for most of the match because it had wanted to.

There were no howls of protest when Mohun Bagan players were fouled, there was no getting behind the team that had not won a Kolkata derby, an occurrence as regular as the rain over the past five years, this term. There was no collective groan when Jason Cummings skied the penalty minutes before East Bengal went ahead. Barring spurts of noise when Lalengmawia Ralte equalised, Mohun Bagan fans, the...