Brightwell Bros.
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So I went to everything yesterday, from the bus welcome, right into the ground so was on the concourse for an hour before, through to the Fernandinho send off. That was an English football crowd at its best. It followed the flow of the game, was very down at its down point, and was as high as anything at its height. Pure drama. The silence in the crowd was atmosphere in its own right: despair, anxiety. You don't get the explosion on the second and third goals without those moments of contemplation. But even after they scored the crowd did a loud rendition of Blue Moon. Anyone dwelling on "atmosphere" after that game either wasn't there or is so used to (fairly) giving the crowd a kicking that they don't know what else to do.