Denis Law seemed indestructible when he sat down in a room above Old Trafford to talk about the great days he'd once known.
Every last granular detail was still intact on that grey Friday morning, nine years ago, as he looked ruefully at the grass heaters at Manchester United and wished he had known such luxury.
We discussed Charlton, Stiles, Busby and some lesser known details of the year he had spent at Torino while at the height of his powers, in the early Sixties.
Denis Law seemed indestructible when he sat down in a room above Old Trafford to talk about his great days
Law was in a car crash that nearly killed his English team-mate Joe Baker, who turned the wrong way into a roundabout in Turin and clipped the kerb as he struggled to turn the car around, flipping it over.