The warning sounded over and over, first in Swedish and then in English.
But in the stands, as a thick cloud of smoke wreathed and coiled in the floodlights, nobody moved.
The fans were going to make the game happen by sheer force of will.
The top two teams in the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s elite league, had gone into the final day of the season separated by just three points.
It has not happened in England since 1989, and Italy has not produced such a denouement in more than half a century.
Organizations:
Allsvenskan, Elfsborg
Locations:
Malmo, England, Italy