Sammy McIlroy gives his old teammate a nudge and Lou Macari is off again. Back to the Seventies and the top of a hotel ‘80 stories high’ on a Manchester United pre-season tour. Old times. Good times.
‘Wasn’t there another one when Tommy Docherty was waiting for us on the bus outside to go somewhere?’ prompts McIlroy.
Macari takes up the story between fits of giggles, describing how he locked Gerry Daly and Paddy Roche in their hotel room from the outside having smuggled their phone out into the corridor.
‘I was on the other side of the door,’ recalls Macari barely able to contain his laughter.