He stood a few small steps away from the top of the world when he joined Sir Bobby Charlton and Gary Lineker as the only Englishmen to score a goal in football's ultimate semi-final.
And for England's Kieran Trippier the journey to the World Cup semi-final in Russia, with a stop at a Skegness caravan park along the way, now seems more significant than ever.
'It would be me and my mum in the caravan. We just used to travel around,' he says of the days more than 10 years ago when the two of them would roam all over the north to watch his brother, Kelvin Lomax, whose football career was taking off at Oldham Athletic.