June 15th - 20th, 2017
The Neves announcement broke on a Wednesday morning. I was in the middle of a lecture on session design when the club's official Twitter account posted the news.
I didn't see it happen. I was sitting in a classroom at St. George's Park with my phone face-down on the desk, trying to concentrate on what the instructor was saying about progressive overload in training blocks.
But I felt it. The way you feel a shift in the weather before the rain comes. My phone, which I had set to silent, began to vibrate with a low, persistent hum against the desk. It didn't stop.
I flipped it over during the break. The notifications were coming in so fast that the screen was barely keeping up. Twitter mentions. WhatsApp messages.
Missed calls from numbers I didn't recognise. The club's official post had already been retweeted forty thousand times. The fan forums were moving so fast they were barely readable. The headlines were already being written.
