When I asked another fan, dressed head-to-toe in the red, green and gold of the Ghanaian flag, what he thought lay behind Ghana's success, heshoutedout two words - "team spirit!"
He appeared to confront two spectators in the pavilion, and after removing his pads went to talk to a spectator in the New Road stand who had shouted a remark when he was out for six.
He was not allowed to change out of his pajamas, even as his mother wailed uncontrollably and his father shouted that a great injustice was taking place.