Wrote this at the airport around 4am your time. Here’s the POV on the ground from London via The Guardian. I will do my take in a separate post that either ran earlier or will run later.
A couple of slight worries for the long-term promotion of the game in the UK did occur. First the attendance: despite proud brags that tickets sold out within hours of going on sale, they have been pretty easy to come by in recent weeks and one could still buy them an hour before the first pitch. The crowd was extremely healthy but pockets of empty seats were dotted around the stands and the cynical might suggest it does not bode well if a game between the sport’s two biggest teams cannot be sold out.
