As a data scientist raised in London’s multicultural tapestry, I didn’t just watch the 2002 final—I decoded it. Zidane’s volley wasn’t luck; it was a Bayesian inference made visible: pressure, timing, and spatial probability collapsing into perfection. This is football as poetry, written in motion and memory. The save by Cissell? A time-series anomaly resolved. I saw patterns where others saw chaos.