Occasionally, the narrative of a story changes.
This story was always going to be a fascinating insight into a golden period at the Club in those wonderful days of the early 1950s - Arthur Rowe, push and run, Sir Alf, Bill Nick, Ronnie Burgess and back-to-back titles.
Yet the incredible thing about Derek Castle is that he’s here to tell the tale at all.
Derek is now 89 and most Spurs fans, even the most hardened, won’t have heard of him.
On the Club’s books as a junior in 1945, he was playing for Letchworth in 1951 when Arthur Rowe, manager of the champions of England, came calling.