“Sorry; one second.” Distantly, David Woozley then beckons someone back.
"Sorry about that; I am out walking my dogs and was just calling one of them back over. He’s called Wilf, actually! After the great man himself because he is so fast.”
It is at that moment you realise you are talking to a Crystal Palace fan who has lived the dream all Eagles wish for: pulling on the red and blue for the pride of south London.
Woozley “doesn’t do all of that” social media, so our former defender was a hard man to get hold of.