Describe a sports event you watched.

The sporting event I remember best is a cricket match I watched about four years ago, not at the ground but in a small restaurant near my office that had one television and about sixty people in it. I was with two colleagues and we had gone for lunch, entirely by accident, on the afternoon of a close finish. What made it memorable was the room rather than the match. Nobody in there knew each other at the start and by the last few overs everybody had an opinion, the owner had stopped taking orders, and a man I had never seen before was holding my arm during the final delivery. We lost, narrowly, and the room went completely silent for about five seconds and then everybody laughed. I have watched far better matches on my own at home and felt almost nothing. Sixty strangers all caring about the same thing at the same second is an experience you cannot reproduce. I have gone back to that restaurant perhaps twenty times since and it has never once been like that, which is presumably the point.