Final
The air is electric, the anticipation frightening.
Tonight the best place to be won't be at the ground in an anonymous crowd or corporate box with a whole lot of part time fans making the most of the networking opportunity.
It will be with mates at a bar or at home with family. Maybe alone on the couch or laughing at the level of noise from your neighbours house or a rural landscape interspersed with homestead porch lights left on later than usual.
Tomorrow the whole country will sleep in either because they can't face the day due to too much celebration or a loss.

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