At the time, Bonetti was one of the first specialist goalkeeping coaches and his wisdom was undoubtedly crucial for Niedzwiecki, who would later follow his mentor and become a goalkeeping coach at Chelsea, as well as an outfield coach.

‘He was a lovely man and ever so helpful when I first started settling in along with the other goalkeepers Steve Francis and Grant Lunn,' he continued. 'Right from the off, he was such a wonderful help to me. He was always willing to stay out and work with you on the training ground, passing on his knowledge and his experiences, and he helped me so much.

‘One of the big things for me with Peter was even if I had very little to do in a game, he would call it being hyper-critical so he would say Wwhat about when that ball came in, you could have been doing this or doing that" or "what about when you received the ball, did you see he was available?"

‘He would pick little things out and that was really so good for me. He could assess situations very quickly and he adapted very well. I loved the time we spent together, hours and hours on the training ground, trying to improve in certain situations or with certain abilities I may have lacked.