“We are not really thinking about that,” Blind says. “We have to take responsibility in the game and do everything we must to win because it is a final. You can’t underestimate any team you play against, because it is not easy to reach a European final. We fight here as well and there is only one thing in everyone’s mind which is it is a final we want to win... we have to make sure that we are fully prepared and give everything we have got for the last time this season.”

Blind says it is “too easy” to proclaim Ajax as the underdogs, although that is undoubtedly what they are. He will know better than anyone the spirit of a club that has always had to sell its players to more powerful European rivals, himself included – and all but one of that 1995 team. The one was his father Danny who, having signed in 1986, stayed for the rest of his career and will find himself in the unusual position on Wednesday night of hoping that Ajax do not come out on top.

As his son Daley puts it for both of them: “There are two clubs for me, but on Wednesday there is just one club.”