On the balmy summer's afternoon in 1966 when England won their only World Cup the greatest of all Scotland's goalscorers was keeping his head down on a Manchester golf course.
Not only to secure solid contact with that little shoe ball.
As he came up the 18th fairway another member stretched over a fence and told him: 'Lawman, England won.'
Said Denis the perpetual menace to England: 'Thanks for ruining my day. It was bad enough losing to someone who played awful. Now it feels like the end of the world.'
To invoke his own cryptic sense of humour, it didn't take him long to get over it .