George Boyd smiles wryly. The Premier League's marathon man has been asked to share the secrets of his boundless stamina and give an insight to what makes him tick.
When Boyd was a teenager, he chose to sign for Stevenage as that enabled him to study sports science at college for two days a week. Did what he learn back in those formative years provide the base for the remarkable numbers he is able to accrue?
It turns out, as he divulges with another wry smile, that Boyd – who clocked 429.75km during his last full season in the Premier League – flies in the face of modern sports science convention and leaves Mark Howard, Burnley's fitness guru, shaking his head in bewilderment.