I promised you a football miracle

“At half-time,” Alessandro Ciotti recalls, “one of our fans was already on his phone looking for flights to Japan for the FIFA Club World Cup. He wanted to get in first so that the prices hadn’t gone up too high.”

“It was nightmare,” is how Chris Hughes remembers it.

“My son Jamie was in floods of tears. I’d seen victory and defeat as a fan but this was too much for a young lad to take. A couple of guys in the next row tried to comfort him but they ended up crying too.”