Larry Ryan: Is there anything more beautiful than a goal?

I’m thinking about goals, because this week drew the circle of life in our house.
Larry Ryan: Is there anything more beautiful than a goal?

SWEET DREAMS: Marseille's French midfielder Dimitri Payet celebrates scoring in the Europa Conference League quarter final match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and PAOK Saloniki at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille

How do you reckon Dimitri Payet slept Thursday night, after that goal, that beautiful goal for Marseille against PAOK, that you ought to look up now if you missed?

Even after all the sweet goals Dimitri has accumulated in his life so far, you’d imagine he drifted off easily in a kind of bliss, rewinding it. From his exclusive angle, despite all the cameras mounted in the Stade Vélodrome. Maybe he was lucky enough to stir awake in the middle of the night to briefly retrace its delicious arc before floating off again. Knowing true, fleeting contentment.

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