gold medal

• Gold medal, at last.
• Against Germany, which makes it better.
• (Refer back to the last World Cup if you need this explained to you; it is rather painful.)
• Brasil! (That’s two hundred thousand voices, more or less.)
• The Maracanã explodes.
• Players run randomly across the pitch and throw themselves to the turf, sobbing.
• Neymar pulls his yellow jersey over his face.
• The old corgi finally eats his dinner.