Jarrod Bowen sat in his dad’s battered old truck, the one with its wheels falling off, held together by memories. The one now filling with tears.
It was in that old truck that Sam Bowen once drove his young lad to matches around Hereford. And it was in that truck, back in May, that father and son sat together soaking in the news that Jarrod Bowen was in the England squad.
‘He was crying his eyes out,’ says West Ham winger Bowen. ‘He was saying, “I can’t believe it, this is the truck we used to go to local games in.