The music stopped but the singing went on. They belted out El Arrebato acapella, Sevilla’s anthem ringing round the ground, the ‘oooooooooo’ rising and falling. ‘And that’s why I’ve come here to see you today,’ the chorus opens. Almost 45,000 of them had come to watch their team play Barcelona on Saturday night, the stadium packed. It was just before 8pm, the teams were out, and they stretched their scarves and sang loudly. Two hours later they were singing it again, even louder now. In front of them stood a dozen footballers in white, soon joined by one in orange. On both sides of the barrier they applauded, as exhausted as they were elated.
Up in the directors’ box, Sevilla’s president Pepe Castro was beaming. “We’re delighted with this win...” he said, the word ‘win’ barely out of his mouth before he corrected himself to say: “I mean, we’re delighted with this draw.” It was, they all agreed, “a draw that tasted like a win”. An 84th minute goal from Kévin Gameiro made it 2-2 with Sevilla having trailed 2-0. At one point in the second half, midfielder Vicente Iborra had gestured for the crowd to make even more noise; the surprise was that they managed to do so. It had already seemed stuck on full blast. And when Gameiro scored, the needle crashed through the dial and out the other side.
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