Devastated on the pitch, trailing 3-0 after a performance riddled with anxiety and inhibition, with the minutes ticking down on Mexico’s World Cup Javier Hernández did the only thing that mattered in the circumstances. He pelted over to the touchline and asked his bench the burning question. What the hell is the score of Germany v South Korea? At that point it was 0-0; there was still hope.
This was one of these extraordinary events where emotions were stretched to the fraying edges of reason. In stoppage time in Ekaterinburg the mood turned into a twisted kind of pandemonium – first a charge cascading around the crowd to signal news of a goal for South Korea. But then the celebrations shrank with reports of a raised flag. A second wave of euphoria came moments later as a referee in front of a television monitor nearly 1,000km away in Kazan made his fateful decision.
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