With a minute to the restart of the second half, the tunnel buzzed with activity.
Both sets of players lingered around the tunnel mouth, catching the rumble of the crowd that sounded ready for another half of exciting football.
After a while, the match officials came, and then one by one, the players emerged from the narrow mouth of the corridor, the heat and colour of the stadiumswallowing them whole as the officials beckoned them.
"Second half coming up from Capming World Stadium," the commentator's voice came.
"Both managers will have said what needed saying by now, words have been spoken, voices raised, strategies drawn. But all of that means nothing unless it shows here, on the grass. It's time for the players to walk the talk."
The camera panned across the pitch, the lights blazing white on the grass, the crowd restless but loud, still buzzing from what they'd seen in the first forty-five.
