Andy Townsend was at his father’s bedside during his final days this summer when thoughts turned to his own future.
His dad, Don, played more than 300 times for Charlton and Crystal Palace. When he died in July, aged 89, he had been suffering from dementia for 10 years.
Townsend is 57 now. He has two grandsons. He is renovating a property in the Cotswolds.
Talk to him, and there is a lot of living left to be done. He is as busy and brash as he was in midfield on the pitch.