IAN HERBERT: I watched Brandon Williams look like Manchester United's future left back of choice in a 2-0 win at Burnley, five years ago. Spatial awareness, box-to-box running - he had so much.
IAN HERBERT: Joey Barton was adopting his intellectual persona in court on Tuesday afternoon. He walked in carrying a thick paperback of Christopher Hitchens essays.
IAN HERBERT: Some were so desperate to point a finger when Adam Johnson, a Nottingham Panthers ice hockey player, was killed on the rink in the sport's darkest day.
Soon after the start of the pandemic, as Covid-19 spread its trail of death and devastation around the planet, I came across the draft of a scientific paper online.
IAN LADYMAN AT WEMBLEY: This was a calamitous effort from the Premier League leaders. Everybody loses in sport at one time or another. But to lose like this is quite something else.
IAN HERBERT: It was the casual way Arne Slot threw out Mohamed Salah's name in the Anfield press conference room early on Sunday evening which screamed his significance.
It is 43 years since Ian Rush scored four goals in one of the most legendary Goodison derbies ever and for the first time - just before it is too late - he is sitting in the home dressing room.