Dougie had told me to sit down and I did not sit down, and 40 seconds later I wished I had.
"It is not a bid," he said.
"You said sit down."
"I know what I said. It is not a bid, son, it is 14 of them."
Shhhh. Rain on a canopy 40 feet away and nothing else in that car park at all.
"14 what?"
"Since Sunday night I have had 14 telephone calls off agents, and 9 of them were between the final whistle in New Jersey and 11 o'clock this morning, and not 1 of them has asked me for a transfer.
"Every single one of them wants a new contract."
I stood in that rain at 20 to 1 in the morning and did not say anything for a while, because the moment he said it I could hear how obvious it was and I had not seen it coming for a second.
"Say the names."
