The thirty-yard bicycle kick was a thunderclap that echoed through the very foundations of the Football Coaching Game.
Josh Sargent, the grizzled veteran, the man brought on to be a sensible, calming presence, had just scored a goal of such impossible, audacious, and beautiful madness that it had broken the game.
The Sunderland players just stood there, their mouths agape, their Premier League composure shattered. The 50,000 home fans, who had been roaring their team on, were now a library of stunned, reverent silence. They had just witnessed a miracle.
On the live stream, which was now trending worldwide, Tactics Tim and Gary 'The Gaffer' Stone were no longer commentators. They were witnesses.
"I... I... I quit," Tactics Tim stammered, his voice a broken, ecstatic whisper. "Football has been completed. The sport is over. Josh Sargent has won it. I am going to go and lie down in a dark room and think about what I've just seen."
