The furthest reaches of football ecstasy are more attested than experienced. We see a great goal on video, and the camera pans across the supporters who are plainly in the throes of ecstatic transport, their spirits communing with something higher while their bodies stay here, slobbering and gibbering and joyously shrieking profanities in every tongue on the planet. It’s an everyday thing to see. It’s not an everyday thing to experience.
Then there’s 8 minutes like the 8 minutes that kicked off tonight’s match against Orlando City SC. Let’s stay in the first few minutes of this one, shall we?