This has to be a first: someone singing ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles’ in the main stand at Spain’s training ground just outside of Madrid.
‘They fly so high, nearly reach the sky,’ continues West Ham’s Pablo Fornals before translating the song back into Spanish: ‘Pompas de jabón, lindas pompas de jabon’.
Looking out on to the main training pitch and grinning broadly, Fornals is demonstrating that his English is good and that he knows the club song.
The 25-year-old (R) will play a part on Wednesday when the Spanish take on minnows Kosovo
He is a happy man because he’s where he wants to be right now: living in London, back in the Europa League with West Ham and back in the Spain squad after a three-year absence.