“Would love to chat!” replies Peter Ramage to our WhatsApp message. At the end of our hour-long phone call with the former Eagles defender, we feel foolish for even considering that he might have left us on two blue ticks – after all, Crystal Palace Football Club gave him a season that “was the highlight of my career.”
We will get there: the season we all know Ramage is referencing. But the conversation kicks off just as Ramage has returned from his morning workout in sunny Phoenix, Arizona.
The United States is now home for the Geordie who ‘would bleed black and white if you cut him in half.