There is a reason football is the most celebrated and popular sport in the world. Watched across every corner of the globe, fantasised by every nation, there isn’t a sport that has spanned boundaries and cultures and people and populations like football.
That’s because it is beautiful to watch. While the arch of a deep ball that drops in the bucket has a sensual sweep to it, or the crack of baseball bat to ball is a satisfying sound, snapping you in and out of a dream, there isn’t anything quite like watching a football team carve through an opponent, the ball fizzing from player to player, the net rippling with aesthetic beauty, the ball following those curved trajectories with such accuracy and panache.