HT Kick Off: Finally, Mohun Bagan and East Bengal look even

If the peripatetic Ezzejjari – he has not stayed beyond a season at any club since starting out with Granollers in 2012 –has hit the ground running, it is because days before arriving in Kolkata he had scored for Tanjing Pagar United in the Singapore Premier League. Match sharpness will be the final piece of the puzzle, Jamshedpur FC coach Owen Coyle had told HT before the 12th edition, delayed by five months for most of which there was no football, began. Maclaren, a journalist pointed out to the Mohun Bagan striker, was playing after 105 days.