The little boy in front of me is wearing his soccer team’s jersey. It is a generic red color, with generic orange sleeves, and there’s some kind of badge sewn onto it. No name, no number: it could have been any kid’s jersey, depending on what order they lined up in the day they handed them out. I’m having a hard time making out the badge because he is dancing, energetically, to the music of funk sextet New Sound Underground at the Surly Pre-Match Party. He’s about ten and not thinking about soccer at all at the moment, although when he got dressed that morning he probably thought, “I should wear my jersey.
Sights and Sounds of Match Day
