Long before the Premier League turbo-charged English football’s march towards worldwide domination, Tunisian television would broadcast one First Division match live each Saturday.
In a holiday resort called Hammamet, a young boy would tune in, transfixed, hoping for a glimpse of his boyhood hero, Bryan Robson.
Last November, that same boy, Sadok Hajri, celebrated a remarkable 30 years as a Manchester United employee.
It’s been quite the journey.
Sadok arrived in the UK in 1993 and was initially misdirected to Yorkshire, where he lived in Malton, not far from Scarborough. But after a short trip to visit a friend in Manchester, he pledged to find work in what was then (and still is, of course) the UK’s hippest city.