It was an eye-opener to spend the day at Brighton to see how a club once close to going out of business and having to play home games in a different county are now competing with the biggest and best.
I took my son, Ethan, a keen schoolboy footballer himself, to watch an open training session and got to meet Roberto De Zerbi, who has a real presence about him.
It was also nice to catch up with the chief executive, Paul Barber, who I first got to know at Tottenham when I was a player and he worked on the commercial side.