On the morning of the show, Holt is buzzing with energy. You can see the wrestling fanboy shining through. “Sitting in there with Mick Foley and Billy Gunn, it’s mental,” he beams, standing in blinding sun outside Carrow Road. “I was just laughing with my mam, as she’s come down to watch us – ‘I never thought watching you jumping off of the bed pretending to be Mr Perfect, that you’d actually end up doing it in the ring’.”

Wrestling was something he always wanted to do, but was just never able to find time for. “When you’re being a professional footballer, you haven’t got time to eat, let alone anything else.” You also sense that no manager would have been happy if their star striker was sidelined because of a botched suplex or frog splash, either. At 38, it is unlikely that a second career in the WWE beckons, but Holt says he is “just enjoying it for what it is.”

“I haven’t put numbers on it, or where I wanna go. It’s a thing that I do part-time, I haven’t got the time to take it up full-time, but I enjoy it. It’s a great release for me from doing the football stuff. I still do the Norwich, the academy and TV, and as a release I can do that afterwards.”

He reels off a list of his favourite wrestlers from the 1990s – not just Foley and Mr Perfect, but also The Undertaker, Ken Shamrock and The Mountie. He admits to not necessarily having kept up with wrestling fully since then, having only got back into it when he started training. You can tell he knows the new career has raised a few eyebrows, but he says the football world is full of secret wrestling fans.

“You go to channel 401 on Sky, you’ve got football. You go 402, the golf is on. You go on to 405, but when you get to 403 the wrestling is on. You always watch it for a couple of minutes but pretend you don’t really like it, and then you flip on to the football. And that’s what everyone does. And anyone says they don’t, they’re lying!”

Holt says that nearly two decades as a professional sportsman has given him the fitness needed to be a wrestler – but as a footballer, all his strength was in his legs, and wrestling requires your whole body.

“You need to do a lot of upper body strength. It’s a lot of neck stuff, you’re taking a lot of bumps and landings. It’s not easy, it’s lifting big lads up. I’ll be sore for the next couple of nights, let’s put it that way. You are up down, up down, up down, and that’s what kills you.”