Step into the coliseum of humankind’s definitive sport, where the gladiators are not always the players but the awesome fans as well. Whether you’re rooting for West Ham United, Barcelona or Juventus, it doesn’t take a Luciano Pavarotti to turn your ordinary stadium into an extraordinary opera house of fans roaring out their love.
Here are The18’s most epic terrace moments. Feel free to chant along, just don’t wake up your neighbors.
Sometimes when you try to kick a soccer ball everything goed great and you end up kicking the soccer ball. And, you end up kicking the soccer ball in the direction in which you intended to kick it.
But.
Sometimes that doesn't happen. Sometimes you try to kick the soccer ball and you end up not kicking it, or it goes in a direction other than the one originally intended. That is what happens in this video. A lot.
In American football, the infamous Gatorade shower can strike at any moment after a big game. However, in European football, this is far from the norm. After Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester City in 2010 to qualify for their first ever Champions League, David Bently's antics cost him his career at Spurs.
The most wonderful thing about the World Cup is that it’s a carnival. Not in the modern “Oh, this is a great opportunity to get Instagram photos and pretend I’m a famous person” sense of the word, but more like the medieval “Let’s reverse all our social roles, suspend our norms about desired behavior, lose our everyday individuality and experience a heightened sense of social unity while pouring libations” understanding.
It never ends, this churning of prodigious soccer talent at Borussia Dortmund. One minute you’re the Magic Johnson of footballers, the next some 17-year-old Londoner is vigorously nutmegging you to no end in every training session. That, apparently, is the situation facing Christian Pulisic with the emergence of younger-than-thou Jadon Sancho at Dortmund.