In mid-1991, John Salako was out mowing the lawn when a phone call came that every Englishman dreams of.
Enjoying a quiet summer afternoon with some time away from work, Salako could have been anyone else in the neighbourhood that day when his wife Susie picked up the phone to who she was told was Graham Taylor.
“Oh, Graham Taylor’s on the phone,” she told her husband.
Salako wasn’t convinced. “That’s Shawsy,” he said, “that’s Richard Shaw messing around or one of the lads. I thought, ‘ah, they’re just playing a prank.’ So I got there like, [sighing] ‘yeah, what’s going on?