Pitch — Warm-Up
7:00 PM
The tunnel walk for warm-up happened in a line with Demien following the team toward the pitch, and when he emerged from the red-walled corridor into the vast bowl of the stadium the sound hit like a physical force that had weight and pressure and the specific quality of seventy-three thousand people who had come early and were already in full voice.
He jogged onto the pitch with the substitutes while the starters warmed up at the other end, and the grass was perfect under his boots and the lines were sharp and Old Trafford under lights was different from the empty walkthrough yesterday because now it was full of people and noise and energy that changed everything.
