I have never before been trailed, but that has now changed. University Radio York are doing an adaptation of The New World Order, to be broadcast to a waiting campus in November. Today York, tomorrow … well, Stamford Bridge at least.

What’s really touching is one of the comments on the YouTube site: “I loved this book when I was younger!” Younger? For crying out loud, it was only 2004 … which, okay, if you’re an 18-year-old first year probably seems longer ago than it was.