“Saturday afternoon in Islington and Everton’s Steven Pienaar is scooping the ball expertly, delicately over Arsenal’s goalkeeper, Manuel Almunia, and into the net. A thousand miles away, a slight, pale teenager in a black tracksuit with green trim, RACING emblazoned across his chest, watches it on Televisión Española from his hotel room at the NH Convenciones in Seville. The commentator takes a deep breath and emits a long, drawn-out ¡gooooooool! He pauses. ¡Gol! ¡Gol! ¡Gol! ¡Gol! It is, he says, a golazo, a great goal. ‘Brilliant,’ says his co-commentator. And the teenager agrees; it is. But he can’t help thinking that he could do better.” (Guardian)