‘Chris suggested I play in Scotland but I didn’t want to… now I realise you’d struggle to find a more football-obsessed nation’: John Sutton on the path that led him from Spurs to today’s Premier Sports Cup semi-finalists

The sun is shining, the man is smiling and the verdict is unsurprising. ‘I still have the joy,’ says John Sutton.

He is sitting in a cafe in Maryhill, just up the road from his home and not far from the Firhill Complex where some of the activities of the John Sutton Community Club take place.

‘I always enjoyed it. I still do,’ he says of football. ‘My dad was big into fitness and we spent our time running through woods, playing two-touch football, heady tennis with Chris in the…