The old footballer was watching the younger footballer and went through the same churn as the rest of us. The same but perhaps a little different, too.
‘I saw him on the floor getting worked on and everything else just pales into insignificance,’ says Geoff Thomas. ‘You see all that, what happened with Christian Eriksen, and quickly you realise what matters and what doesn’t, don’t you?
‘It was so great to see that picture of him, whenever it was. Half an hour later? An hour? His eyes were open, so that was great. And then the update that he is OK, wow.