Normal boys would probably laugh it off but I am still talking about that incident 40 years later. The shame and the self-loathing and the lack of self-esteem were huge.

In your days as a player you would sometimes wake up hungover, covered in vomit and urine. Do you still reflect back on those dark times?

I am now 20 years without a drink so I know I don’t act like that and I have not wet the bed since then, so sometimes you think: was it really that bad? Did I really get sent to prison? (Adams served 58 days in Chelmsford Prison over the winter of 1990-1991 for drink-driving.) You can convince yourself as time goes on that maybe I can just have a glass of wine? But for me it is important to be real and to not gloss over those moments that got me to the bottom. That is the way it was. That is the person I was. And I have got to remind myself that my best drinking took me to the bottom.

I go back to AA meetings to remind myself how bad it got. But I don’t think too much about the past. It is dealt with. I try to live in the day. If I get anxious at all it is usually about the future; the fear of what is next. But I try to stay in the day.