[Selhurst Park. 14:35 BST.]
Both buses came through the gates and the noise inside the ground hit different, because outside it was spread over miles and inside it was twenty-six thousand of them stacked in a bowl with a lid of sky on it and not one of them sitting down.
The pyro went off the roof of the Holmesdale. FOOMP. FOOMP. FOOMP. Red and blue, columns of it, and the smoke rolled down over the pitch, and then the cannons, FOOMP, confetti coming down in a blizzard that didn't know what month it was.
The lads came off the buses and there was no order to any of it. Kit men next to internationals.
