The four sides of Wembley.
The Chelsea end picked it up in the second verse because the Chelsea end had been at football matches long enough to know when a stadium did this you joined in. Forty-five thousand became seventy-nine thousand minus the FA officials and the broadcast crew and the eight hundred Chelsea supporters who would not join.
Jackie looked at him.
She did not have the FA's briefing for Mateo because Mateo was not on the team-sheet because Mateo had not played. Geoff had told her at five to seven that the lad on the crutch was the captain who had been injured at the semi-final and was coming up because the captain was coming up.
She did not say his name.
She put the medal round his neck. Held the ribbon at the back. Then both hands on his shoulders. Then she leaned forward and said quietly something I could not hear from where I was at the bottom of the stairs, and Mateo nodded once, and she let him go.
