Friday, February 23rd. Two days before the cup final. The photograph arrived.
Not on my phone. On every phone. On every screen. On every sports page and every social media feed and every television studio in Europe. The photograph that would define the San Siro chapter of the documentary. The photograph that Elena would later describe as "the single image that changed the way the world saw Danny Walsh."
A Reuters photographer took the photograph named Marco Luzzatto, who had been positioned at the edge of the pitch during the pre-match warm-up, his camera aimed at the Curva Sud, his finger on the shutter, his professional instinct telling him that the story of the evening was not on the pitch but in the stands.
The flares had started. The smoke was rising. Eighty thousand people were making a noise designed to terrify, to intimidate, to remind the visiting team that they were at San Siro and that San Siro did not forgive.
