'What? A re-match? So he wants to miss all over again…?!'
Bruce Grobbelaar is responding to Francesco Graziani's proposition, published in these pages on Monday, that he and the Italian re-stage the iconic penalty which propelled the pair of them into European Cup history and helped clinch the trophy for Liverpool at Roma's expense 34 years ago.
The smile playing across his face broadens into a grin when it dawns on him that there's a very good time and a place for such an encounter. 'Anfield, half-time on Tuesday,' he says with the conviction of man proposing some kind of duel.