"There is the feeling that this is something teetering on the brink of being lost".
"In the end there has been a feeling that this is something the judges have been working out themselves," says Matt Barr of All Conditions Media, an action-sports consultancy.
It's clear, from our researches over the past few weeks, that many company directors and fund managers have had a nagging feeling that this is something coming up the agenda that – one day – they will have to think about.
Of course, audiences were bound to get better and broader and they have but there's still a feeling that this is Something Special; it's not yet the community-minded place that subsidised theatres (those that survive) manage to be in the provinces.
So when I'm making a record, you do get that buzz, you get a feeling that this is something incredible.
"There would be a very real feeling this was something people did not want to see, had not voted for and would find very difficult to accept.
I don't intend to send them a warning or hurt their feelings but this is something that is felt within the squad.
Erik Elsenaar, an IT consultant waiting at Schiphol for his midday flight to Kuala Lumpur, told the Guardian he was feeling very calm: "This is something that never, never happens, and it's unlikely to happen again.
"The feeling I get is this is something that must be resolved, not between [the club president, Miguel Ángel] Gil Marín or [the technical director] Andrea Berta, but rather between Simeone and Torres, who are friends.
The mothers felt that the group was the only platform where they had an opportunity to express their emotions and feelings in a safe environment and this is something they are often not able to do with their own families.
