Though you imagine today’s footballers are not as obsessed with their newspaper ratings as the older generations once were, occasionally you receive a reminder they are still read.
There was one time when the representative of a Brighton player called on a Monday morning to say he and his client were peeved with the three he had received, for example.
Apparently the penalty he clumsily conceded had blinded me to all the good moments he had manufactured.
If Eddie Nketiah picked up a copy of the Mail on Sunday on Sunday, the £30million summer signing from Arsenal will have seen a number one next to his name.