Tommy Martin: Where does personal responsibility go in a football crowd?

Countless academic theses have been written on how crowds at sporting events engage in collective hysteria. Royal events may generate inexplicable outbreaks of emotion, but nothing compared to the average county final

ABUSED: Real Madrid's Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior gestures toward the crowd during the Spanish League football match between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium. Pic: Oscar Del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images

They came in their hundreds of thousands, day after day. Some were long-time devotees, others simply felt compelled to join in the collective outpouring of emotion. All were drawn by the unique power of a figure at once remote but also familiar, uniquely charismatic but deeply ordinary.

Yes, Garth Brooks puts on a hell of a show.