Laurie Cunningham stood poised over the ball as always, daring anyone to read which way those dancing hips might sway, and with a red-and-white scarf knotted around his neck for the occasion.
One young Leyton Orient supporter moved in through the drizzle of the Coronation Gardens with an inflatable FA Cup, placed it on the plinth beside Cunningham's feet and fired a volley of questions while he posed for a photograph.
Who is he? Who did he play for? Is he dead? How did he die? 'He played for the Orient son, read that,' he was told and so he did.