Harry Kane has tussled with some of the world's best defenders but he will not have encountered many opponents like the one who awaits him in the FA Cup third round.
When Tottenham visit Tranmere Rovers on Friday he will be up against centre back Steve McNulty, perhaps unfamiliar to a national audience but an unmistakeable figure to most who follow the lower tiers of the professional game.
With a shock of grey hair and generous girth, watching McNulty brings to mind that lyrical description of David Steele, the silver-topped England batsman who famously tamed Australia's quick bowlers in the Seventies: 'Like a bank manager going to war.