Brad Ferguson

It has outlived the careers, the managers and even the stadiums involved, and settled somewhere deeper in the part of football support that has nothing to do with reason at all. To anyone outside the M25, it is a pub quiz answer. To Arsenal fans, it was a masterstroke, arguably the finest piece of free-transfer business the Premier League has ever seen. To Tottenham supporters, it is the one that still aches.

England fell behind inside seven minutes when Chancel Mbemba's cross was turned in by Brian Cipenga, exposing a reshuffled back line in front of Jordan Pickford. The response was slow, and before the first hydration break, England had registered no shots and no touches inside the opposition's box. By half-time, following the stoppage, that had risen to eight shots and 20 touches in the area.