The beauty of sport is that when your team scores, whatever the level or importance, it feels like you’ve just won the World Cup.
The singular moment of unadulterated primal ecstasy is why we keep going back, week in, week out.
It might not be in the Premier League, but that doesn’t make those goals any less meaningful or memorable to those at the ground, a moment of glory that belongs to you and yours alone.
On Saturday, Wycombe Wanderers secured a 1-1 draw with Dagenham & Redbridge, thanks to a last-minute equaliser from big defender Aaron Pierre.
But it was the celebration, rather than the drama of the goal that caught our eye. As the players ran towards the home support in unbridled rapture, a local ballboy could barely hide his excitement and joined in.
Without thinking he threw himself around Pierre’s neck in jubilation, and at once Pierre grasps the young lad like an excitable pup that had leapt to its owner.
It was a beautiful moment – that said everything about why football can be the greatest sport in the world.
