It was around 4:30 p.m. on January 15, 2011. Leyton Orient's bullish centre-forward Scott McGleish saw his number go up and trotted across the waterlogged turf at Rochdale's Spotland Stadium to take up his place in the dugout and watch his side play out the final 17 or so minutes of a largely eventless 1-1 draw.
On in his place came a 17-year-old striker sent to the O's of League One by Tottenham Hotspur, just a few miles north of the club's Brisbane Road home ground.
The Rochdale game, according to Orient assistant boss Kevin Nugent, should never have gone ahead, owing to the torrential conditions and a virtually unplayable pitch.