Monaco’s training ground, La Turbie, is perched on the clifftops overlooking the principality and the Mediterranean. To reach the city state below you have to negotiate one of those perilous mountain roads which require maximum concentration in the evenings, lest you become distracted by what are invariably spectacular sunsets.
Glenn Hoddle used to make this journey after training and often he would pull over and simply sit in his car, taking in the view. ‘I would just watch the sun going down for half an hour or so,’ he told me once. ‘It was amazing.’ He paused. ‘A bit different to Harlow.