Such is the hyperbolic nature of modern-day sports punditry that the Euro 2016 campaign is already being hailed as Welsh football’s finest hour. Win against Northern Ireland, and the formbook suggests they should, and Wales will be into the quarter-finals, on the side of the draw that doesn’t include heavyweights like Spain, Germany, France and Italy.

But this team has a long way to go before it can be compared to the heroes of the 1958 World Cup, the only time before this that Wales had been part of a major tournament. They started with a 1-1 draw against Hungary, who had been beaten finalists four years earlier. Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis had left after the Soviet invasion of 1956, but another of the legends, Nandor Hidegkuti, captained the team. Jozsef Bozsik, who scored against Wales, was still the midfield general.