The time has finally come to say goodbye to Goodison Park and it will be some valediction on Sunday: 100,000 people or more drifting up to the old place for celebrations tinged with regret that men's football among the red-brick terraces is vanishing into history.
All will be remembering goals, games, glories, though it is the sounds of this inimitable stadium which are the most vivid part of the memory for one of the greatest players to have graced its turf.
The muffled noise of supporters trampling across the concourses above the home dressing room, by which he and his team-mates knew if there was a big crowd in.