The laughter echoes all the way from Kyrgyzstan as Andrei Kanchelskis relives one of his earliest encounters with Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
'Good morning Andrei, how's it going?' inquired Ferguson cheerily as he walked past his new Soviet signing in a corridor at The Cliff training ground in March 1991.
'F**k off, you Scottish b*****d!' came the reply.
The look on Ferguson's face and hysterical reaction of his new team-mates hiding around the corner told Kanchelskis that he had just been the victim of a prank.
'We used to do the same to the Brazilians when they came to Moscow.