Considering it has just gone 8am in the morning when Fraser Forster is all set up in front of Zoom to speak to Sportsmail he is in especially good spirits.
‘I’ve just had to do an FA Cup quiz and I was like “I don’t even know what time it is, let alone [some of] these answers,”’ he laughed.
Forster did all he could to remain upbeat during the most difficult period of his career but he has genuine reason for the smile on his face now.
It is no longer one that has to mask an understandable disappointment at finding himself out in the football wilderness but also the sort you might expect now he has managed to completely transform his Southampton fortunes.