Were we living in normal times, Nayim would this week have stood in Zaragoza’s cathedral square with a photographer from a Spanish newspaper, attempting to recreate a moment now a quarter of a century old.
‘With kids and obviously a smaller distance!’ he stresses. ‘I don’t have the power now to score that goal from that distance.’
That goal and that distance can mean only one thing, the strike at Paris’s Parc des Princes on May 10, 1995. It was an extraordinary piece of vision and execution, lofted nearly 50 yards from goal out on the right to drop beyond the backpedalling David Seaman and break Arsenal hearts in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup final.