Wisdom had left his hotel on the morning of Derby’s game against Sheffield Wednesday and veered off course on his way to Pride Park to stop at a shop to buy a drink.

Being unfamiliar with the area, the man on loan from Liverpool then entered the stadium’s post code into his sat-nav and set off.

Wisdom’s sat-nav instructed him to take a shortcut down a boggy woodland track over three miles from the nearest tarmacked road and the rest, as they say, is faintly ridiculous history.