Ronaldo scores after match delayed by missile alert
An hour is a long time to sit with the possibility that the sky above your stadium is not safe. The fact that Ronaldo then went out and scored suggests something about the strange machinery of the athlete's mind, or maybe just the relief that comes when the alert turns out to be survivable. I keep thinking about the players warming up twice, the crowd not knowing whether to cheer or shelter.
I'd want to know what the missile alert actually was, and how the decision to continue got made. There's a weird poetry in the Champions League, a product of peacetime, being played in a city that just got told to take cover. Sport is often called a distraction, but this felt more like a choice: to carry on, to treat the pitch as a place where the world's rules are suspended. I don't know if that's brave or just human. Probably both.