Eddie Howe was in Reykjavik this summer, educating himself and his eldest son on volcanoes - and trying to escape football, if only for a moment - when a taxi driver let slip that Iceland were playing Slovakia.
‘Every holiday I go on, I naturally morph back to football,’ says the Newcastle boss. ‘So we were in a taxi and the driver said Iceland were playing. I was like, “Ooh, should we go?”. My three sons were like, “We have to go!”. Martin Dubravka was playing for Slovakia, so at least I got to see how he was doing.