Chatting to Pascal Gross ahead of today's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, his biggest match in a Brighton & Hove Albion shirt, I realised how much we have in common. We've both scored regularly against Manchester United with the No13 on our back, share a healthy scepticism for VAR and have even worked with the same first-team doctor, Steve Lewis.
Pascal has been at Brighton for six years now and what a journey it has been.
When he arrived from Germany, the Seagulls were new to the Premier League. Now they are everyone's second-favourite team with an exhilarating brand of football under their firebrand Italian manager, Roberto De Zerbi.