The first thing to know is that Pat Jennings is still working. He is 75 now but two days a week the young goalkeepers of the Tottenham academy benefit from a great man’s wisdom.
Jennings knows too well what inactivity feels like. ‘When I packed up football after the 1986 World Cup, I was not involved in the game,’ he says. ‘I would get up in the winter, pull the curtains back and if it was raining and I couldn’t get out on the golf course I went back to bed. After a few weeks you realise you’re just wasting.