As parting shots go, Keith Burkinshaw's was an absolute zinger. 'There used to be a football club over there,' was the show-stopping quote coined to mark his exit from Tottenham Hotspur, fired despite winning the UEFA Cup.
There has been conjecture in the 41 years since about whether this is exactly what was said, or if something along those lines was put to him by a journalist and he nodded his approval or picked it up and ran with it and the headlines made an impact.
Either way, he is prepared to own it. 'That's how I felt,' says Burkinshaw, on an afternoon of reminiscence with his former captain Steve Perryman in the aptly named White Hart Inn, in deepest Somerset.