Stadium — Local Derby, Friday Night, 2012 3

Two friends at the halftime pie stand — a young person with short dark hair and warm brown skin holding a hot pie in a paper wrapper, steam rising, mid-bite with a satisfied expression. A stocky South Asian guy with neatly gelled black hair and a trimmed beard, wearing a team scarf draped over a puffer jacket, holds his pie in one hand and a fresh pint in the other, balancing carefully. Both in the home kit under their jackets. The old ground's concourse behind them — corrugated metal walls, a hatch serving window with a handwritten menu, other fans queuing, puddles on the concrete from earlier rain, a programme seller. The amber-sodium floodlight glow spills in from the terrace entrance behind them. Phone camera flash on their faces, harsh against the dim concourse. Early-smartphone quality — oversharpened, noisy shadows, the pie steam slightly smoothed by the computational processing. Natural skin texture with subtle pores and micro-imperfections, organic asymmetry in features.