"Obviously it was me who was the Boy Fan," grins Lee Hendrie.

We're giggling our way through a 90-minute Zoom chat and the conversation turns to a Birmingham Evening Mail clipping in the former Aston Villa star's scrapbook. The cutting in question shows a teenage Hendrie - curtain haircut, fist pumps and all - photo-bombing Ron Atkinson's more measured celebrations after Phil King has smashed in the penalty that clinched a UEFA Cup shootout victory over Inter Milan at a packed Villa Park.

Still a relative unknown despite the hype starting to swirl around him back then, the caption on the front page of the Mail from September 30, 1994, the day after the night before, simply refers to Hendrie as 'Boy Fan'.

“The delight reflected on the faces of physio Jim Walker, manager Ron Atkinson

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