Peter Beadle's first crack at the big time ended rather abruptly when the young striker was summoned into the office at Tottenham by their manager Ossie Ardiles.
'He called me in and asked if I thought I deserved the money I was earning,' recalls Beadle, now in charge of Hereford FC, who go into Thursday's FA Cup second round replay against Fleetwood as the last non-league team left in the competition.
'It made a change for Ossie because usually he wouldn't speak to me at all. But that was the end of me at Spurs.