Saturday, September 9, 2023
Wembley Stadium — England Recovery Area
Post-Match
The recovery room moved around Demien while he sat still with his phone in his hand, the heat of the Ukraine match still in his legs, and the room's noise rolled past him — players lowering themselves into ice baths with sharp hisses of breath, staff calling names off a clipboard, physios working down a line of legs, someone already pinning the Scotland schedule to the corkboard by the door.
He'd assumed the buzzing was match reaction at first, but the same phrase kept surfacing from different people in different threads — France Football list — and the more messages stacked up, the further the room's noise seemed to pull away from him.
He opened the article properly because he didn't believe the screenshots.
