But away from the usual images of the World Cup, another hidden life was taking place for those who followed the roadshow thousands of miles around Japan.

BBC: World Cup memory lane

There was no time for them to conjure the most unlikely of all equalisers, but their heroic display finally brought the World Cup to life and warmed the hearts of the crowd on a freezing night at Ellis Park.

BBC: Brazil 2-1 North Korea

Change either breaks into your life, or you open the door and invite it to sit down and have a cup of tea.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.

NEWYORKER: Total Recall

He invited her inside, poured her a cup of coffee, and gamely told her about his life as a restorer and artist, omitting only the bit about his Sexton Blakery.

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