Kenny Sansom reaches for his cup and takes a sip of tea. ‘It’s cold now,’ he chuckles. It’s still full, too.
Because, for around an hour, the former Arsenal, Crystal Palace and England defender has been busy, flicking through the archives of an extraordinary life that has jolted between darkness and limelight.
Now aged 64, there is plenty that remains etched into Sansom’s mind. ‘There are certain things I’ll never forget,’ he says.
There is plenty he might wish to erase. And plenty he can’t remember at all.
Lost among the fog of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a brain disorder similar to dementia, are memories old and new.