As West Ham fans gathered yesterday afternoon in Prague's central square and the beers began (continued) to flow, most were probably oblivious to the medieval relic watching over them from high on the side of the Old Town Hall.
A shame, really, for had they glanced up at the Prague Orloj, one of the world's oldest astronomical clocks, it may have told them all they needed to know: that the stars had aligned and this, at last, was their time.
