World Cup diary: Matt Damon was here
5 min readNew YorkUpdated: Jul 2, 2026 11:26 AM IST Scrawled in block letters on an off-white obscure wall in Harvard Square in Boston is a line: “Matt Damon was here!” Excited passersby stop, howl and snap photographs and selfies from various angles, as though they had discovered a hidden treasure. “Seriously, was he really here?” “Or someone wrote just like?” Then who did? Was it Damon himself? Like urban myths, there are various versions. Some claim Damon, who was raised in the locale, himself wrote it. Some, in typical Bostonian wryness, would ask: “Who is Matt Damon?” A photographer turned portrait artist, chimes in: “Well if you ask me, he is here and everywhere.” “I am not that Hollywood-loving type, but a lot of people ask me about Matt’s favourite restaurant or bar, or the cinema,” he says. ALSO READ | Tillman bends it like Juninho, Beckham, Pirlo and Zico to send USA into R16 Damon’s mother was a professor at Cambridge, less than a mile away from Harvard. So he grew up walking …
