The best thing about going to a match is the twenty minutes before anything happens, and no broadcast has ever worked out how to show it.
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Television arrives ninety seconds before kick-off with three pundits. The whole slow filling-up, which is most of the feeling, is just gone.
Same reason the walk to the ground matters. None of it is the sport and all of it is why you went.
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