Johnny Metgod moves from Sunderland’s Roker Roar to filthy conditions and pitches with rolled mud and no grass, to sausage, egg and chips, with the same unruffled stride once the trademark of his elegant midfield command.
The Dutchman conjures psychology lessons with Brian Clough and roast dinner with Tony Adams. He reflects on five lost trophies with Real Madrid and a final lost against Ipswich when AZ Alkmaar were still reeling from the wild celebrations of their title win, but he starts with the free-kick against West Ham.
Where else? That free-kick has developed a life of its own since the onset of social media and when Metgod returned to Nottingham Forest to take a seat on the board more than 30 years later, he found people still talking about it.