New Delhi: The presence of two alleged overage players didn’t make any difference to the outcome of the final of sub-junior boys national championship for the BC Roy Trophy.

They remained unused substitutes but were named in Delhi’s team sheet against Bengal for the final after obtaining tacit approval from the All India Football Federation following an emergent executive committee meeting on Wednesday.

Bengal protested off the pitch and then showed their supremacy on it to win the final 3-0, Shagnik Kundu making their record-extending 14th title memorable with a hat-trick (12′, 78′ and 90+4′) at Amritsar’s Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Football Stadium.

After AIFF’s executive committee member and chairman of competitions committee Vijay Bali resigned to protest the approval of those tw

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