The British Airways steward on flight 95 between Heathrow and Montreal on March 1 smiled when he saw the last passenger to board into business class.



“Hello, Mr Wanyama,” he said, before he’d checked his ticket.



“He was a Southampton fan,” explains the Kenyan, 28. “He said he wasn’t happy that I left Southampton for Spurs but he wished me all the best. He asked me if I was joining Montreal Impact. I smiled but didn’t reply because I’d not yet signed.”



Wanyama’s move from Tottenham Hotspur to MLS club Montreal last month took him from being out in the cold in north London to the sub-zero temperatures of Canada’s second-biggest city. “It was freezing when we arrived with snow on the ground,” he explains from his new home in the province of Quebec. “It was snowing when I did my press conference. I came prepared with my big jacket. I knew it would be cold but not that...