I Love Soccer Writing

You would never see anything like this in an NFL article.

"Zidane provided a flash of inspiration when he ran with intent at the terrified Marseille defence and unleashed a 30-yard drive which swerved from left to right and just missed the right post, with Vedran Runje in the visitors' goal desperately throwing himself to his left but looking unlikely to have stopped the ball had it gone the other side of the stanchion."

Stanchion? Terrified? With intent? I like that better than I like the tame output our folksy pundits.