A ghost entered his mind. He remembered a dishevelled man at the bar talking to him, or rather at him.
"I could have been greater than any of those footballers on the telly but I broke my leg, didn't I?"
The sad character limped away to his seat speaking to the air in an angry tone. He's probably down in the earth by now and Jack wondered if he was telling the truth...or just another deluded drunken figure.